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The good paddock Cubby lane 11 acre farm Perth Restaurant photographer by Valentine Girardot Perth Photographer 2025
14.5/20

One of WA’s most vital food stories is now even more compelling – and delicious

Goodbye Cubby Cafe, hello The Good Paddock: a smart-casual dining room offering an accessible take on farm-to-table dining and wining.

  • Max Veenhuyzen
The seafood platter.

Apollo Bay Fishermen’s Co-op

It doesn’t get much more local than this.

Good Food/WAtoday The Denmark Hotel review main image.
14.5/20

On the mark: This 100-year-old watering hole keeps the country pub dream alive

Following the appointment of an experienced new executive chef, this pub’s future is looking – and tasting – even brighter.

  • Max Veenhuyzen
Doubleview Bowling Club
14/20

The unlikely dining room bringing modern Asian cooking to suburban Perth (again)

Taiwan, Italy and Ireland may be strange (culinary) bedfellows, yet all three nations feel – and taste – right at home at this spirited pop-up kitchen.

  • Max Veenhuyzen
Blak Cede Gunyah cafe in Nowra.

Blak Cede Gunyah

Aussie brunch fare made with native ingredients.

  • Bianca Hrovat
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Kangaroo with rainbow chard and native basil.
15/20

This fine dining destination in the Perth Hills embodies the spirit (and flavours) of Australia

Open for just three lunches a week, this intimate 12-seat restaurant in Chidlow is an invitation for guests to taste Australia anew.

  • Max Veenhuyzen
Trading Post Laguna is a bakery, general store and wine shop and bar.

Trading Post Laguna

A roadside destination for food, drink and provisions in sleepy Laguna.

  • David Matthews
Marron with harissa and saltbush.
15/20

This hometown favourite deserves a place on every South West wish-list

Set in a distinctly West Australian setting, this Dunsborough bar and restaurant champions the southwest in delicious, assured ways.

  • Max Veenhuyzen
Beaconsfield Wine Bar is shaping as a serious destination for lovers of hard-to-find drops.
14.5/20

This suburban Perth wine bar is proof that great hospitality can change neighbourhoods

From Mediterranean classics and great value oysters to Asian-inspired dishes and vino worth travelling for, Beaconsfield Wine Bar – and its promising new head chef – does it all.

  • Max Veenhuyzen
Chef Laura Koentjoro Harding (centre) in the Banksia Tavern kitchen with Rohan Todd (left) and Liam Monaghan (right).
14.5/20

Can the ideal country pub exist in an upwardly mobile regional city? Head south to find out

Past and present, Australian and Asian, local produce and worldly thinking: this Busselton treasure offers a way forward for the beloved neighbourhood pub.

  • Max Veenhuyzen