Mount Hawthorn
Listen up Perth: Here’s the pizza order to test your maker’s skill
Hint: it’s probably not the pizza you’re thinking of. And its presence on a menu speaks to a certain intent.
- by Max Veenhuyzen
Latest
Casa crew bring terrific pizza (and pizza-adjacent favourites) to Mount Hawthorn Â
The crisp, 96-hour-fermented pizzas are designed to travel but can also be enjoyed in-store. And yes, there’s a Hawaiian pizza on the menu.
- by Max Veenhuyzen
Review
Sonny’s
Residing in a former bank, Sonny’s is a neighbourhood wine bar brimming with youthful vigour and potential
Drop in for easy-going wine snacks or make a night of it with a good-value chef’s menu overseen by one of the state’s most promising cooking talents.
- by Max Veenhuyzen
Broadbrush
Eat and drink Perth
Get packing for a ‘food and vinous journey’ – starting in Mount Hawthorn
Need a little stimulation? Perth’s latest food and drink news has you covered, whether you feel like luxe Italian, Indian immersion, jazz or just partying hard.
- by Rob Broadfield
The Reporter podcast: The Head in the Bag
This week on The Reporter podcast, Gary Adshead tells Michael Thomson how an ordinary walk with the dog led to a tip-off about the identity of a dismembered body.
From racing to Rottnest: Piecing together the full story of Perth’s severed head
A gifted child and a charming man, Stephen Cookson could have had it all. Instead, he sank deep into the underworld, where one day he got everything he deserved.
- by Gary Adshead
Molto bene: Perth’s top 10 ‘nuovo’ Italian restaurants to get your pasta fix
Mushy pasta and cook-by-numbers sauces are gone. In their place, proper al dente pasta, clean and calibrated flavours and well-cooked grills are the order of the day.
- by Rob Broadfield
Small dishes with weapons-grade flavour: Lucy Luu exceeds expectations
Lucy Luu is one of a raft of noodle and dumpling houses owned by a smart and ambitious Chinese Australian who packs ’em in every week at her Miss Chow’s venues.
- by Rob Broadfield
Sonny’s is seasoned with wokeness, but it doesn’t spoil the flavour
A rescue dog is the surprising inspiration for a Mount Hawthorn bar brimming with good cheer and wonderful down-to-earth food.
- by Rob Broadfield
Baby drought: The suburbs with Perth’s lowest fertility rates
A fertility fault line divides the regions of greater Perth with only one suburban area having enough babies to maintain a stable population.
- by Sarah Brookes
Nothing like your nonna used to make
While there’s is plenty of life in this Italian eatery in Mount Hawthorn much of what was served arrived DOA.
- by Rob Broadfield