Claremont Hotel
Claremont Hotel
The Loft
Celebrating a winemaking matriarch’s 100th birthday
On February 11, the late Diana Madeline Cullen – one of the founders of Margaret River winemaking powerhouse Cullen Wines – would have celebrated her 100th birthday. To mark the occasion, Vanya Cullen (Diana’s daughter and the current matriarch of the Cullen legacy) released the new vintage of the Diana Madeline, the winery’s flagship cabernet sauvignon. On Wednesday May 24, Vanya will host a five-course matched wine dinner at Hearth Restaurant featuring both new and museum Diana Madeline as well as other wines from the Cullen stable. Tickets are $249 and available online.
Get paid to go to the pub
Australian Venue Co, the hospitality mega-group behind venues such as The Claremont Hotel and Market Grounds, is recruiting for its Secret Sipper Club, a program that uses mystery shopper-style guests to keep tabs on how the group’s venues are performing. It’s something of a win-win for both parties: the HR team gets feedback on how things are tracking, and secret sippers get paid to go out for a drink. More details are available online.
The grand opening of the Chutzpah Deli
In Yiddish slang, chutzpah means self-confidence and audacity. Chef Zoe Ciotta, the cooking force behind the Chutzpah Deli pop-up, has reason to feel confident. After coming up through influential British restaurant River Cottage, she worked with key British chefs including Rick Stein and Angela Hartnett before landing a job at The Barbary, Eyal Jagermann’s feted North African-Middle Eastern where she really dug deep into the regions’ foodways and flavours. The lessons she picked up there – plus growing up with Jewish food courtesy of her Jewish grandmother – will inform Ciotta’s first pop-up this Sunday (May 14) at Miller & Baker, where guests will enjoy the big-flavoured likes of chopped liver and onions, harissa-grilled octopus, chermoula-roasted chicken and knafeh with pistachios and pomegranate. Your $70 buy-in covers food (dinner is BYO) plus music from local record selector, DJ Painless. Tickets are available online.
The ones to watch
Another dispatch from the department of dinner-events-you-should-really-get-around: on Thursday May 18, Fremantle’s Norfolk Hotel is hosting a dinner with three of the state’s more formidable cooks joining forces. Featuring Amy Hamilton from Liberte in Albany, Emily Jones from the Republic of Fremantle and Jess Widmer of Glenarty Road in Margaret River, this event is eaters’ chance to enjoy a taste of the future of WA’s food scene today. Hosting the event will be Prendiville Group food impresario Russell Blaikie, who worked with Hamilton at Must. Tickets are $120 per person and available online.
An open-air getaway in the CBD
The Loft Lounge & Bar at the Intercontinental Perth is a recently opened space providing another open-air drinking option in the city centre. Featuring a terrace that overlooks both King and Hay streets, the lounge is open seven days and serves an all-WA wine and beer selection (plus some champagnes) and a snacky menu influenced by tapas and Mediterranean Europe.
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