Allegria is a family run cafe, in the Ocean Reef shopping centre on Constellation Drive. As part of my quest to find Perth’s best Sunday roast, we decided to give Allegria a try. The roast is available from 4pm on Sundays, and there’s a Happy Hour between 5pm and 6pm. Allegria is about much more than Sunday roasts, it’s a cafe, open from breakfast through to dinner, and has a wood fired pizza oven. They host theme nights (a recent one was a mexican night), and Paul the owner boasts that they make amazing coffee along with the tastiest pizzas around. We dined for the roast beef and it was nice ..read more

Our favourite local yum cha joint has closed down, so we had to find a new one. There are really not many places in the Northern suburbs, so we decided to look at Northbridge again and settled for Canton Roe on Roe Street. There’s 3 hours free parking at the Cultural Centre car park, which is always a bonus in central Perth. Canton Roe is busy and sometimes appears chaotic, but is incredibly well organised. We didn’t have to wait long before being seated. When you order tea, you get a bowl of chilli sauce too, always good for dipping dumplings. They have all the favourites on the menu, and the ..read more

The Woodvale Tavern seems to be based on an old English Pub, it has quite a large interior and stained glass windows. I’m not sure the atmosphere really feels as cosy as an old English Pub, but it’s friendly and welcoming. The visit was another stop on my mission to find the best Sunday Roast in Perth. First of all I was glad to see that they had regular chairs and tables, none of the high tables with stools or backless chairs. I knew it was going to be a comfortable affair. The waitress showed us to our table – a nice booth and gave us the menus to peruse. I had already decided on the Sunday ..read more

Do you ever get a craving for a ramen, and wonder where to go to get a quality bowl? Well look no further than Ramen Keisuke Tonkotsu King, nestled at the bottom of the Melbourne Hotel in Perth CBD. There is an art to a good ramen, and it’s all about the stock. If you can find a ramen outlet that take care over the stock then you are on to a winner. RKTK is a small restaurant, and we were ushered to a table for two. You are given a supply of hard boiled eggs to snack on, and a small pestle and mortar with black and white sesame seeds. We worked out that you grind the sesame seeds and then dip ..read more

This is just a short post to tell you about the best bahn mi. In my opinion Bahn Mi is the perfect Vietnamese/French fusion food, and an ideal amount for lunch. It’s a french baguette, with pate, and then meats which are sometimes marinated, some sauces – generally hoisin and nuoc mam based, and cucumber, chilli, pickled carrots and coriander. I’ve tried a lot of bahn mi, but my favourite go-to is Vung Tau in Girrawheen. They only do a pork bahn mi – in two styles, either traditional or roast pork. The roast pork version has lovely chunks of crackling and melting roast pork, while the traditio ..read more

Taylors is a favourite of ours in the Swan Valley. Not only is it right next door to the tempting treats of Whistler’s chocolate factory, but it’s a quirky art cafe with sculptures and paintings and tables nestled in amongst the creativity. The menu is equally creative, with delicious sounding hotcakes, pulled pork benny, chicken and waffles, okonomiyaki (Japanese pancake), marinated mushrooms, sago pudding and many more carefully crafted options. I chose the ricotta hotcakes with banana, lemon marscapone and biscuit crumb. Not only did it look amazing, but tasted very moreish all the way thro ..read more

NextDoor is a trendy restaurant and bar in the Angelo Street Market area of Como. It’s right next door to Olsen’s butchers, so they have a good supply of quality meats, and this shows by the superb wagyus, ribeyes, and scotch fillets available on the special meat menu. As soon as you walk in it is oozing with sophistication, and we were seated around the grill bar so that we could watch the chefs preparing the meat and fish dishes. The menu is based on share plates – snacks, small plates, larger plates and vegetables. I started proceedings with a Vignarosa prosecco while we perused the option ..read more

The second instalment in the quest to find the roast in Perth took us to The Iluka, a pub in the beachside suburb of Iluka. There’s no separate dining area, all of the tables are within the pub, so dining here comes with all the noise and clamour of a pub atmosphere. To be honest I think the Iluka are missing a trick here, and there is definitely space to have a separate quieter bistro area. Initially we were taken to a table that was incredibly uncomfortable. Even though I had booked several weeks ago, there didn’t seem to be a reservation sign on the table (unlike others), and it was a very ..read more

I am on a quest to find Perth’s best dining out Sunday roast lunch and decided to start my search with Chapter’s Bistro in Currambine. It’s located in amongst the Currambine shopping centre, close to the cinema, and boasts a Sunday lunch for $25 – you get the roast meat of the day with all the trimmings for this price. You really have to book because it gets fully booked out pretty quickly, and you have to provide a credit card number to secure your table. Service was friendly and I started with a glass of San Martino prosecco. The wine list is quite good and has some appealing cocktails. Ro ..read more

The UK is well known for it’s particular brand of curries. They may not be particularly authentic or like anything that you would find in the Indian sub continent, but they are tasty and popular, and there’s nothing more traditional than a Friday night beer and curry when in Essex. Most Indian restaurants in the UK are actually Bangladeshi owned. There’s a ‘standard’ menu of increasing heat from korma, which is mild and creamy to the medium curry, bhuna, dopiaza (onion), kashmiri (with fruits), rogan (tomato), to the hotter madras, ceylon, vindaloo, and the super hot bangalore phal. There are ..read more