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The salami deep dish.
14/20

Vegans take note: Family pizzeria brings Leederville great pizza, small plates – and a dedicated vegan menu!

Also on offer: house-baked focaccia, utterly comforting desserts and a chilli oil to be reckoned with.

  • Max Veenhuyzen
Braised leeks with blue cheese and walnuts.
14.5/20

A thousand things to drink: This Perth bar has one of Australia’s great wine collections

This Perth venue is like taking yourself to Copenhagen, London or Paris without leaving William Street.

  • Max Veenhuyzen
Peasants Paradice’s Zimbabwean-born chef and owner, Dwight Alexander.
14.5/20

Run to Paradice – or at least this spirited Northbridge dining room

Could this be one of the city’s best-kept-secret cooks? His bold, confident, unique cooking suggests his is a name to watch closely.

  • Max Veenhuyzen
Lalla Rookh understands that at its heart, so much of the ritual of hospitality is showing your guest that you care.
14.5/20

This modern CBD pub puts the mate in maitre d

As this underground tavern enters its second decade, its triple-threat blend remains as reassuring (and welcome) as ever.

  • Max Veenhuyzen
The sando.
13.5/20

Flipping the Bird: The eatery bringing Nashville to Northbridge

Bird is the word as this newcomer provides the pleasures (and pain) of spicy Nashville-style fried chicken, not to mention on-theme Southern American drinks.

  • Max Veenhuyzen
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Hifumiya food review Max Veenhuyzen. The Hifumiya dining room is a sea of action and ebergy during lunchtime.
14/20

Cosy Hifumiya serves housemade Japanese udon noodles by day before transforming into a roaring izakaya at night

Don’t be put off by the lunchtime queues: the line moves fast and the slippery, chewy wheat noodles evoke memories of Japanese tradition and modernity.

  • Max Veenhuyzen
Spanish queen and manzanilla olives.
14/20

Storied chef brings Spanish polish to inner-city precinct

Drop in for croquettas, chorizo and other tapas and pintxos classics or make a night of it with bold, modern Spanish cooking prepared by a chef’s chef.

  • Max Veenhuyzen
Emma Pegrum, Branden Scott and Tom van Beem of Wines of While.

New and old, local and global: inside the next chapter at Wines of While

A familiar face returns to the influential William Street wine bar while a special guest is coming to Perth to launch the new Sunday lunch.

  • Max Veenhuyzen
Deeply savoury prawn noodle soup ($16) .
14/20

Brilliant prawn noodles, supple chicken rice, and deep-fried milk at Hey Hawker

Brilliant prawn noodles, supple chicken rice, an intriguing deep-fried milk dessert masquerading as an appetizer.

  • Max Veenhuyzen
Meatballs and marinara pizza.
14.5/20

Maestro by name, and nature: North Beach restaurant serves some of Perth’s finest pizza

What started as a Covid project has bloomed into a destination neighbourhood pizzeria serving featherweight, world-class Naples-style sourdough pizzas.

  • Max Veenhuyzen