Freo icon
As I get older I become so much more pedantic. Overuse of the word “icon” is on my hate list because, let’s face it, who or what should be ”regarded […]
Category Archives: Fremantle
‘Fast’ food
THE CHOOK is a bit late to the Running with Thieves party. The South Fremantle brewery/distillery opened in November last year, but the explosion of restaurants in the port city has […]
Men’s shed?
AT the end of the ‘Fremantle Rainbow’ is no pot of gold, or Brad Pettitt dressed as a leprechaun, but there is a designer tin shed. It’s actually called Jetty […]
Struck gold
THERE’S a hidden gem down in South Fremantle. It’s called Sanco and serves up refined Japanese food at very reasonable prices. Situated on the ground floor of a stylish new […]
Use your loaf
BREAD junkies will be very familiar with Little Loaf Bakery. It has built up a cult following thanks to the excellent bread, pastries and savouries in its South Fremantle store […]
Tasty surprise
AFTER 18 consecutive days of rain it was great to see the sun make a brief cameo on Thursday, so I donned my speedos and headed into Fremantle for lunch. […]
Early Christmas
AS a fugitive from the Northern Hemisphere, there was a time I simply could not endorse winter without Christmas. Last year, I bought myself a pair of little ceramic Santa […]
Rolling on
THE Chook normally doesn’t review franchises, but since Roll’d is the first eatery to open in the FOMO complex in the redeveloped Kings Square, we made an exception. There was […]
Emily’s back
THERE’S been some famous Emilys down the years. Suffragette Emily Pankhurst, poet Emily Dickinson, and “Big Emily” from the Gorbals, who I met in a Glasgow nightclub in the 1990s. […]
Holy moly
THE Bistrot Cafe is around the corner from the Herald offices in the West End, so a visit was long overdue. The original Bistrot has been operating in Bibra Lake […]
