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Hinata introduces new evening menus
Since opening last year, Fremantle Japanese cafe Hinata has quickly won over Japanophiles with its utterly comforting home-style cooking. Expect that crush to deepen with the announcement that, starting this week, Hinata will start serving dinner Wednesday to Friday. Just as she does during the day, Hinata owner Tomoe Echo will fly the flag for home-cooking via a daily changing obanzai set menu. (Obanzai is a style of home cooking synonymous with Kyoto, the former Japanese capital.) Hinata’s offering ($40 plus corkage) includes a starter, cold side dishes, warm mains, onigiri, chilled miso soup and a dessert; flashbacks to Japan are complimentary. Reservations are essential and can be made by calling Hinata on 0413 674 678.
A plant-based, low-alcohol tasting menu
There’s been a lot of talk surrounding capsules of late. The capsule that people should be talking about most, however, is the latest Capsule pop-up overseen by chefs Matt Sartori and Richard Overbye. For event number five, the gents – who met at the legendary Restaurant Amuse and are also involved with the food at Wildflower – will be serving a largely plant-based tasting menu matched with low-ABV cocktails from bartender Sam Cocks, another Wildflower alum. The dinner will be held at Lathlain’s Cosy Delis on Sunday February 12 and tickets are $195 per person including matched drinks. Tickets are available by emailing capsuledinners@gmail.com.
Vinotto adds Sunday lunch to the menu
Look alive Swanbourne! Local wine hangout Vinotto is now open from 12pm on Sunday for all of the suburb’s Sunday lunch/recovery needs. The kitchen has come to the party with a new daytime-friendly menu that features plenty of things on bread (sardine and anchovy toasts, for instance) and summery plates in the vein of burrata and tomatoes.
Farewell, Kafka
After seven years of trade, Fitzgerald Street’s Kafka will be turning off the espresso machine for good and buttering (to order) its last bagel. You’ve still got a few more days to pay your respects to this “West Northbridge” coffee shop before its final day of trading on Thursday February 9.
The Flour Factory is also calling it a day
Also on the topic of closures, CBD gin favourite The Flour Factory will call it a night in May, bringing to a close its almost nine-year innings. Over the next three months, management will be hosting a variety of gin and cocktail masterclasses before shutting up shop and rebooting the space as a South American-themed venue. More details are available online.
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