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Max Veenhuyzen is a journalist and photographer who has been writing about food, drink and travel for national and international publications for more than 20 years. He reviews restaurants for the Good Food Guide.

This suburban pizzeria brings a plus-sized slice of Naples to Canning Highway

This suburban pizzeria brings a plus-sized slice of Naples to Canning Highway

On the back of Da Napoli’s menu is the motto, “a’pizze’ na cosa seria”: Italian for “pizza is a serious matter”. But it’s still important to have fun.

  • by Max Veenhuyzen

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A hat! Is Wildflower as good as it has always been?
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Perth

A hat! Is Wildflower as good as it has always been?

After fine-tuning his skills at some of the world’s most demanding kitchens, Paul Wilson brings vim, vigour and imaginative vegetable cooking to a celebrated hotel fine-diner.

  • by Max Veenhuyzen
Mid-week wonders: dining bargains and meal deals to get you through the hump day slump

Mid-week wonders: dining bargains and meal deals to get you through the hump day slump

Including approachable fine dining, one-dollar chicken wings, half-price pizzas and all the mussels you can eat.

  • by Max Veenhuyzen
Imaginative dishes make South Freo’s Madalena’s an essential address for lovers of seafood
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Fremantle

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.

  • by Max Veenhuyzen
New five-venue Japanese food precinct from Hifumiya crew opens in Perth

New five-venue Japanese food precinct from Hifumiya crew opens in Perth

Japanophiles and noodle hunters, start your engines: the countdown is on for intimate fine-dining, classic cakes, real-deal yakitori and a new ramen style all up one alley.

  • by Max Veenhuyzen
Smoke show: Newly opened Cassia brings modern barbecue to Fremantle
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Fremantle

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).

  • by Max Veenhuyzen
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Does William Street need another wine bar? Why ‘more is more’ at Margot’s
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Perth

Does William Street need another wine bar? Why ‘more is more’ at Margot’s

Margot’s isn’t (just) another wine bar, and its whip-smart cocktails and Eastern European food make it side number three of a Devil’s Triangle at the top of Northbridge.

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

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.

  • by Max Veenhuyzen
On Fire flies the flag for Lebanese charcoal chicken and deliciousness

On Fire flies the flag for Lebanese charcoal chicken and deliciousness

Despite its strong charcoal cooking game, this Canning Highway takeaway also shows plenty of love to vegetarians with full-flavoured plant-based dishes.

  • by Max Veenhuyzen
Go fish: The small Perth bar where you shop for your fish and have chef cook it your way

Go fish: The small Perth bar where you shop for your fish and have chef cook it your way

On the menu: Australia’s finest seafood - prepared by a gun WA chef - plus a tight wine list and Swanny D on tap.

  • by Max Veenhuyzen
Food truck is Perth’s first eatery serving beloved street food dish
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Perth

Food truck is Perth’s first eatery serving beloved street food dish

Since arriving in Australia, Pargat Singh has worked as a cook and a truck driver. Chaap Junction brings together both of these past lives as well as Singh’s northern Indian heritage.

  • by Max Veenhuyzen

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