It’s Peter Pan’s ultimate watering hole.. Feel like a trip back to your childhood? Back to a time when you were climbing trees and having super important club meetings in the ‘No boys/girls’ allowed tree hut? As soon as I walked into the restaurant at Darlington Estate in the Perth Hills I felt like I…
Slow roasted pork belly truffle oil mash, shangi pac choy, apple foam, finished with a red wine jus…. It was only natural that I spent my 27th birthday at a winery. In January I was home in New Zealand for the first time in 3 years and not knowing where was good to go I…
I recently decided to venture from my lovely hub in the Swan Valley down to another spot of Western Australia’s gorgeous wine country – the Margaret River. It is an area of natural beauty where you are never too far from a booze stop, definitely my kind of place! I know I only licked the…
If you live in Perth the Mediterranean is literally a 25-minute drive from the CBD. I am not joking, you can experience the food, wine and ambiance of the Med in a matter of minutes. The difference is that you don’t have to board an airplane for a long, uncomfortable flight that will probably cost…
Tantalizing wines and seductive food… I have been in Perth, Western Australia, coming up to 8 months now and I still feel the city’s best feature is its close proximity to the wine region of the Swan Valley. The Swan Valley is the second closest wine region to a capital city in the world – being…
It’s easy to find good food these days, but not so easy to find good food at a wallet friendly price. After weighing up my options for dinner choices in the suburb of Victoria Park in Perth last night I finally decided on a rather out there choice. I hadn’t been recommended this restaurant but…
Sandalford is the oldest and largest privately owned winery in Western Australia and for that reason I had put off visiting them. I had thoughts of it being over-priced, overly touristy and completely commercialised. I was 100% wrong on all accounts. Having started out in the 1840’s, Sandalford now has 40 hectares in their Swan…
We had no idea how to even pronounce the name of where we were going. It is the capital of Slovenia and roughly 10% of the country’s population lives there – 200,000 people. Ljubljana is its name and now I can mumble out something which sort of sounds like how it should be said. We…
If you’re hitting the Swan Valley for a full day, the Upper Reach Winery has to be your lunchtime stop. Set on a picturesque piece of land beside the Swan River, you will be in awe as you enjoy a tasting and a bite to eat. Upper Reach is a modern family-owned winery that simply…