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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
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
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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
Rob Broadfield review. Ode to Sirens Fremantle. Picture: Rob Broadfield

Pony up for a nostalgia and hummus-soaked trip back through time

Ode to Sirens is a quirky hotel dining room, very much the expression of its muso owner. But at heart, it’s a good pub with great beers and bar staff who like their customers.

  • Rob Broadfield
Flabour bombs at Emily Taylor.

Emily Taylor: Where the flavours create a bar brawl in your mouth

Emily Taylor is a large scale restaurant carved out of the combined backyards of 150-year-old worker’s cottages adjacent to the Freo Markets.

  • Rob Broadfield
Republic of Fremantle. Picture: Supplied

Republic of Fremantle expands its borders, but cocktails are still the star

What began as a distillery with a cocktail bar and a small list of clever snacks has been transformed into a proper restaurant. 

  • Rob Broadfield
Vin Populi owners Dan Morris and Emma Ferguson.

This Freo restaurant ‘rewards serious wine drinkers’, and has an impeccable menu to match

The gentrification of a suburb can best be gauged by its restaurant and bar culture. And Vin Populi is right up there with the best the port city has to offer.

  • Rob Broadfield

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