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Classic yesteryear flavours have been the calling card of Nieuw Ruin since opening in 2021.

Fremantle’s standard bearer for luxe-nostalgic dining and wining to close in March

You’ve got less than a month to get your fix of golden cauliflower pies, great charcuterie, puffy gougeres and other examples of Blaze Young’s old-school brilliance at Nieuw Ruin.

  • 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
Strange Company adds a morning coffee stop to its offering.

The Weekly Special: Which Freo favourite is moonlighting as an Italian-style coffee bar?

Plus the Daisies Cottesloe crew unveils its new deli, and beachside jazz comes to Scarborough. Get all your foodie news in one meal with The Weekly Special.

  • Max Veenhuyzen
All are welcome.
14/20

Wellness takes many forms at wine drinkers’ wonderland in Freo

Two career publicans and a couple of Eagles premiership players walk into a wellness emporium and transform it into a rollicking wine pub.

  • Max Veenhuyzen
Madalena’s is an essential address for lovers of seafood.
15/20

Imaginative dishes make South Freo’s Madalena’s an essential address for lovers of seafood

Madalena’s menu proves unexpected thinking can take seafood to unexpected places.

  • Max Veenhuyzen
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This 80-seat restaurant leans hard into the culture surrounding “Australian barbecue”.
14/20

Smoke show: Newly opened Cassia brings modern barbecue to Fremantle

Where there’s smoke, there’s woodfire (and carefully grilled fish, chicken, addictive potatoes and a love letter to the winemakers and brewers of Western Australia).

  • Max Veenhuyzen
Michael Patroni and the spaceagency team outside their offices in Fremantle.

Design of the times: award-winning Perth architect reflects on four decades of building and designing hospitality hotspots

From pioneering craft beer brewpubs to breezy cafes and new-wave hotels, Michael Patroni has seen – and designed – it all.

  • Max Veenhuyzen
Pepperoni.
15/20

Freo’s newly hatted restaurant has the kind of pizza you attack with a team

Flour, sugo and cheese, oh my! But there’s more than that to this raw pared-back dining room in the resurgent west end of our port city.

  • Max Veenhuyzen
Shirley’s, Fremantle.
14/20

The new Fremantle bar and kitchen that wants to party like it’s 1989

Smoked fish party pies. Prawn cocktails. Garlic bread: this new Freo bar from the Manuka Woodfire Kitchen team revels in the nostalgic tastes of yesteryear.

  • Max Veenhuyzen
Max Veenhuyzen Hinata Cafe review. Katsu sando.
14/20

Sunny by name, sunny by nature: Tender-hearted eatery brings Japanese cafe culture to an unlikely Perth location

Drop in to Hinata for nourishing Japanese breakfasts and desserts by day; then book in for a home-style omakase dinner on selected evenings.

  • Max Veenhuyzen