MAKE sure you get a ginger beer from Matso’s Broome Brewery. The owners Martin Peirson-Jones and Kim Hart bought the brewery about four years ago and have invested about $400,000 that includes building an on-site microbrewery.
While outdoor cooking is nothing new to most Australians, a Perth man is finding new ways to make the barbecue an indispensable culinary tool, as Julie-anne Sprague discovered.
He may have a familiar family name but John Mead’s determined to do things his way, from an understated vibe to fur on the walls, as Julie-anne Sprague discovered.
GUSTO’S Highgate spies tell us there is a new Italian restaurant opening on the emerging ‘hospitality hotspot’ on the Beaufort Street strip from the Queens to Luxe.
The selection of fine, international wines available to Perth connoisseurs and quaffers is set to increase when a new retail outlet opens in Wembley, as Julie-anne Sprague reports.
CLYDE and Lesley Bevan are close to appointing a head chef to take over the reigns from Andy Henderson, who is leaving Friend’s at the end of the month.
Star Anise owner David Coomer nearly took his culinary skills back home to the east coast after a series of less-than-satisfactory work experiences, as Julie-anne Sprague reports.
After many years working with one of Perth’s renowned master restaurateurs, two of the city’s brightest stars are going out on their own, as Julie-anne Sprague reports.
TWO of the best-known names in WA wine are striking out on their own, partly to have a bit of fun but also to start a new business, and possibly to help launch the career of a brilliant young winemaker.
GOUNDREY Wines last week completed bottling the first batch of its new label, Offspring, a wine that forms part of a 2004 product growth strategy for the Mt Barker-based winery.
WHAT was conceived as a simple operation offering a couple of do-it-yourself barbecues and tapas-style food has become a five-star restaurant called Chesters of Heafod Glen.
David Pike has drawn big red circles around February 9 and 10 in his work diary, as that’s when the best of the world’s rieslings will be at Frankland Estate’s international tasting.