LOTS of rich people in lycra exercising. That was the scene in ‘Applecross Village’ as people power walked their way to beauty and health at around 5pm on Tuesday. Like […]

ARE you in the smashed burger camp or the thick burger camp? Or do you have low cholesterol and don’t care? I used to be firmly in the thick camp, […]

APPLECROSS Pizza are the Led Zeppelin of the pizza world. The owners aren’t cavorting with mudsharks, groupies and using cocaine instead of flour to make their dough, but their pizzas […]

  APART from Clancy’s and Raffles, the steep hill leading down to Canning Bridge in Applecross has historically been a culinary graveyard. Many restaurants and cafes have come and go, […]

“IT’S botox central,” warned my friend. Thankfully when the Chook visited The Rowing Pavilion in Mt Pleasant, it wasn’t full of Joan Rivers clones and nobody looked like an extra […]

IF you chucked the 1970s and a vindaloo into a blender you’d probably get something close to 7 Spices Incredible Indian Cuisine. It’s a gloriously old-fashioned looking curry house – […]

IN the same week Mark McGowan flew non-stop from Perth to Rome, I went to Gucce Pizzeria e Cucina Italiana in Applecross. It didn’t take me 15 hours, but the […]

PACIFIC Rim Mix Plate is no more. It sounds like something happened to the Earth’s crust  in South East Asia, but it was actually a quirky takeaway in Applecross that […]

HIGHWAY BURGER and my stomach seemed destined never to meet. Anytime I went to the Canning Bridge eatery it was shut or I couldn’t get a parking spot. On Tuesday, […]

SAILING clubs – the last bastion of white middle-aged men wearing chinos, blazers with gold buttons and smoking cigars the size of a French baguette?  That was my life-long prejudice […]