St Michael 6003

Culinary magic is bound to happen when the owners of two of Perth’s best restaurants join forces.  St Michael 6003 is the love child of Red Cabbage's Scott & Hazel O'Sullivan and Petite Mort's Todd Stuart with talented chef Adam Sayles in the kitchen.

It was the end of an era when Jacksons closed its doors but now newbie St Michael 6003 has taken up residence on Beaufort Street.  

St Michael 6003 uses a small plate approach where diners mix and match each dish creating their own degustation.   This was our first experience and it was so good, we went back.   

 

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Bread and butter; Smoked pork hock, piccalilli and parmesan 

Bread and butter; Smoked pork hock, piccalilli and parmesan 

Roast cauliflower, capers, jalapeño and manchego 

Roast cauliflower, capers, jalapeño and manchego 

Scallops, corn, spinach and shaved squid

Scallops, corn, spinach and shaved squid

Marron. mushroom dashi and turnips

Marron. mushroom dashi and turnips

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Honey cured bacon, mustard, charred pickled onions and cumber

Honey cured bacon, mustard, charred pickled onions and cumber

Lamb belly, mandarin and pickled yabbies 

Lamb belly, mandarin and pickled yabbies 

Wagyu rump cap, cherry, oats, seeds and nuts

Wagyu rump cap, cherry, oats, seeds and nuts

Peanut butter, salted caramel and chocolate 

Peanut butter, salted caramel and chocolate 

Pumpkin, white chocolate, cheddar crumb, pear sorbet and blue 

Pumpkin, white chocolate, cheddar crumb, pear sorbet and blue 

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Mary Street Bakery

Did someone say bread? Actually, make that artisan bread.  

Mary Street Bakery will soon be dominating your newsfeed as everyone scrambles to try the latest offering from the food gods of Beaufort Street.  The only thing you will be sacrificing is your waistline as you tuck into baked goodies, breads, donuts and other tasty morsels.  But don't worry you can gulp it all down with their cold pressed juice and simply wash your sins away.  

I am still yet to fit in a breakfast or brunch with friends and Mary Street Bakery is definitely on my eating agenda this week. So in the meantime here are some snaps from a week or two ago. They sure know how to throw an house warming with guests leaving laden with freshly baked goods. Happy opening guys! 

 

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The Beaufort Street Merchant

I met with my fellow food loving friend Foodie Cravings and aghast! we went without eating.  I forgot how much I love coffee dates, less time chewing means more time for chatting. Michelle and her husband recently opened Crust Mt Lawley.  Working full time, running Crust, satisfying foodie cravings and blogging .. she is one busy lady.  So wonderful to hear that the pizza oven is cranking day day in day out keeping the hungry people of Highgate happy.

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Special advanced and humungous thanks to Crust for donating vouchers to our Autumn Roving Dinner goodie bags.

Tan Po Po

Every time I eat here I say OH BLESS. I think we all fondly remember eating at the old location. The little arcade, with the outdated magazines and five little tables. I always want to get up and clear all the tables for them and get their new site organised. Its still damn tasty and easy on your pennies so all is always forgiven. I just love the staff and especially the owner .. oh bless! 20120422-095337.jpg

Daily Planet

It is always too long between ... ummm breakfasts with Liz.  When we catch up its always amaze! Liz has her own blog Breakfast in Perth and is getting pretty famous now!  Very exciting that she is taking her writing to the next level under the wing of Rob Broadfield for the Good Food Guide.  AMAZING! So proud! We spent the morning pondering food, friends, reminiscing on Teknoscape days and Perth Dance Music Awards. I eat so healthy at home and at work ... its the dining out where I tend to be extravagant.  For the average person that is fine. That is what life is about ... every now and then going out and spoiling yourself.  BUT my butt has been expanding due to the fact that I eat out a hell a lot more than your average Joanne.

I ordered the vegan stack.  Not something I would usually order but I just felt like having salad for breakfast seeing as my cold has stopped me from sweating out in the hot room.  Caitlin (best barista and full of fun) informed they were out of avocado but had added honeyed parsnip. Naturally the chickpea fritter was a little dry but the aioli and juiciness of the tomatoes made up for it.  The parsnip was definitely a welcome addition and the verde added freshness.  So nice to walk away from breky not in a carb coma!

I thought the food was really reasonably priced and it was so damn good to order a Caitlin again.   Free wifi is always a plus too!  Don't read all the urban goon reviews until you have made up your own mind.

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Vegan Stack ~ chickpea fritter, field mushrooms, avocado, slow roasted tomatoes, salsa verde and tofu aioli Mex Eggs ~ scrambled eggs with green pepper and tomato salsa, smoked bacon, corn relish sour cream and jalapenos wrapped in a flour tortilla

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THE CAITLIN: ristretto, honey, ice + a red haired barista These bad boys have gotten me through many many meetings.

Bored with your breakfast? Then you simply must  check out Liz's blog.

Zambrero

If you want fresh, fast and healthy then Zambrero is your answer.  Jamie and Eli opened their Mt Lawley store just in time for the Beaufort Street Festival. Following in the footsteps of big bro Leederville, the Mt Lawley store is always packed.  The line is full of patient peeps waiting to sink their teeth into quality ingredients and Mex with modern attitude.  I tend to opt for a salad bowl and I always get verde and white sauce. Oh how delish! When life gets busy I probably scoff a salad bol two times a week.

Happiness in a soft tortilla.

These two dudes are the owners!

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This is the part about Zambrero that really hits home.

"Our plate4plate initiative has been running since April 2011. We work with Action Against Hunger, to provide high protein, high vitamin meals that help strengthen people suffering malnutrition.

Each quarter, we add up all the meals¹ we have served at Zambrero and deliver the resources to provide the equivalent number of meals to our distribution partner, Action Against Hunger, who provide the logistics to distribute the food relief to the areas most in need.

Why did we choose Action Against Hunger as a partner? Because with thousands of volunteers all over the world, and a 30-year track record of providing non-governmental, non-profit, non-religious humanitarian action, we were totally confident that our plate4plate donations would be distributed to the right people in the right places.

Plate4plate is funded through the profits of Zambrero, which means we’re never going to ask you for money. All you have to do is enjoy any delicious meal from our fresh, healthy menu and we’ll donate a meal in return—a definite win-win!

With your support, as Zambrero grows, the number of people we can feed increases and we hope it goes a little way to helping reduce world poverty. Thank you for helping us to help them!"

el PÚBLICO

We were invited by Matt and Marcela to join them at an el PÚBLICO test dinner. Friends with foodie leverage, humour and appetite. My kind of people. Alex, Paul and the whole el PÚBLICO crew were very welcoming. You already get that comforting feeling that the right people are in place to have it running like clockwork. So pleasing to see James Connolly back behind the bar on Beaufort Street. It is always great to get the whole story from venue owners upon you first visit. It makes the venue personable and makes you want to just spread kind words. This investment within all your potential clientele is so important and the guys do it well. Not that they will ever be short on clientele with Cantina 663 and Greenhouse prime examples of being the finest operators.

We are all very good eaters and when I say that I mean when they told us to order EVERYTHING from the menu and report back. Well we did. BEST dinner ever. We had so much fun and we laughed more than we ate.

Spanish "gordita" ~ little chubby girl, me

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slow cooked pork belly piloncilo chili oaxacan chocolate - JOY I cannot recall what the two middle dishes ... can anyone help? 20120422-121338.jpg

pan fried fish chileatole home brewed soda ginger and pink grapefruit YUM Sam's hot sauce DANGER tomatoes smoked avocado tortilla radish arroz local prawn mussel organic epazote achiote

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tequila flights with sangrita "tequilla slammer" lolly nicuatole mouse wedding cookies cafe de oila nieves cajeta flan banana peanut butter icecream paleta avocado paleta avocado and chocolate - served in steal-able glasses (don't worry I didnt)