A FREMANTLE restaurant open and fully booked on a Monday lunchtime? Normally you’d file that one under unicorns or the Eagles winning a match. But I can confirm on Monday, […]

I HEARD on the grapevine  that Fremantle Sailing Club had recently appointed a new chef, so I donned my sou’wester and headed there for lunch. There was actually no need […]

THE last time I was at the Tradewinds Hotel for a Christmas party someone tried to kick down the cubicle door while I was inside. Thankfully that was many moons […]

AS winter begins to bite, I naturally gravitate towards curries, super-strength lager and long johns. I hibernate in my middle-class cave with a giant flat-screen TV, watching Wimbledon and awaiting […]

THERE’S a new face on Bannister Street and it’s the revamped, upstairs dining of Good Things – the little sister of Good Things in Mosman Park.  Situated where The Attic […]

TUCKED away in an unassuming nook, Parlapa is a hole-in-the wall rustic Italian cafe serving up authentic meals in the heart of Fremantle.  If you blink you just might miss […]

DESPITE covid, there’s been a wave of multi-million dollar pub/food venues opening in Fremantle – The Old Courthouse, FOMO, 8 Knots Tavern, Jetty Bar Eats – and it looks like […]

IT seems Alan Bond was up to skullduggery from a young age. On the walls of the Old Courthouse venue in Fremantle is a press clipping from 1956 detailing how […]

THE owners of the Old Courthouse have done an amazing job of redeveloping the site into a classy bar venue, but what about the food? Would the chef win his case or […]

I JUST love a birthday! In fact I just love a celebration – I’ll drink to that!  I’ve wanted to try the Sweetwater Rooftop Bar for some time now.  Asian-style […]