Chow’s Table, Yallingup
Chow’s Table, Yallingup
Jumbo thali plate at Sauma
State Makers returns to State Buildings
State Makers, the State Buildings’ annual celebration of food, wine and art, has announced a 2023 line-up filled with compelling events. One of the team-ups that’s turned my head is the Chow’s Table lunch takeover at Long Chim on Sunday May 21. For one day, the buildings’ grungy basement Thai diner goes Chinese-Malay as Chow’s Table’s eponymous head chef Mal Chow brings his Yallingup diner to the CBD. The menu will feature fried radish cake, sang choi bao, char siu pork collar and other Chow’s Table hits. Tickets are $120 and available online. Chow isn’t the only south-west name making the trek up to Perth for the festival: Petition is hosting Michelle Forbes and Marinela Antonic of Dunsborough’s Lady Lola for brunch, also on Sunday May 21, while Will Berliner from Cloudburst (Friday May 12) is one of this year’s guest winemakers.
Bigger is better
There are thali plates, and then there’s the jumbo thali plate at William Street’s Sauma, a feasting platter that’s designed to feed between three and four guests while transporting eaters to the coastal Indian state of Kerala. Each platter contains six main courses – there’s a vegetable poriyal (dry vegetable stir-fry), a Kerala-style beef curry spiked with black cardamom, and a fish curry – as well as chutneys, rice and breads for mopping purposes. Each thali is $110 and is available until May 7. Bookings are essential and are available online.
Checking back in on Bivouac
The move from summer to autumn sees more new menus dropping. Along with venues such as Ezra Pound and The Bird, bar-restaurant Bivouac helped usher in a new era for the bottom of William Street. More than a decade after opening its doors, Bivouac continues to feed and water locals, with the kitchen hanging its hat on Middle Eastern flavours. Among the new dishes Bivouac’s Mauritian-born chef Warren Law Kwang has introduced to the menu: mushrooms accented with truffle and za’atar, eggplants stuffed with a ragout of autumn vegetables, and falafels served with pickles, greens and the Turkish yoghurt sauce, haydari.
What Gage Roads did next
Change is also afoot in Fremantle at Gage Roads. The hefty brewpub’s new menu leans into the South American heritage of chef Danny Sanchez and features empanadas, tacos and kingfish given the aguachile treatment. Many of the dishes find excellent foils in Gage’s range of limited-release beers. These include a gose made with sea grapes grown off the Freo coast – a fine match for oysters and other seafood – and a rice lager perfumed with yuzu and tangerine.
Friday night burgers at Oh So Deli
Woodlands cafe Oh So Deli is reintroducing its Friday night burger special for April (April 28) and May (May 26). Between 4pm and 7pm, guests can score a cheeseburger on a Bread Bros potato bun, or a buttermilk fried chicken burger, along with handcut fries and a Bobby soda.
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