Daniel Goodsell was a serious-minded hospitality entrepreneur, linked by ownerships and co-ownerships with a number of the most famous eating places in Perth: Balthazar, Il Lido, Duende, Billie H. He was additionally one thing of a start-up guru, utilising his abilities to breathe life into eating places Gordon Avenue Storage and Bread in Frequent.
A number of years in the past he slipped quietly away from the native meals scene, went all hippy-dippy and located a rambling home within the hills. We went and visited him a few years in the past, and he appeared happier than a pig in schnitzel. If reminiscence serves, the oenophile and muso began doing solo acoustic gigs across the hills – cue plaintiff blues, Bob Dylan oldies and protest music.
Learn on for the small print of Lena’s, open now in Perth. Credit score: Ben Davidson
Nicely, after your years off, he’s again. His new place is known as Ode To Sirens and it’s obtained extra backstory than the Outdated Testomony. Test it out on-line. It’s all about odes and stuff. It’s within the P&O pub in Fremantle and sure, he’ll be taking part in the platters that matter: it has a document participant with LPs and an outdated Sony reel-to-reel tape deck. Cool, man.
We find it irresistible that they promote their faucet beers in 4 codecs, they usually’ve introduced again the just about extinct Pony, a 200-millilitre mini-beer invented in Australia for decent climate when a schooner or pint would simply get too heat earlier than you had an opportunity to drink it. Traditional. The meals at Ode is “Greek-centric and tremendous contemporary,” in line with Goodsell. He’s additionally doing takes on Nineteen Seventies cocktails.
“You gotta attempt our pina colada,” he enthused. “We’re preserving it easy and inexpensive.”
Sofie’s Alternative
Varnish on King has a brand new chef, Sofie Firman. And he or she’s a gun. By the way in which, look out for our function story later this month in regards to the girls cooks of Perth. They’re a pushed, sensible bunch and there’s extra of them in Perth (per capita) than another metropolis in Australia.
Again to Firman, who has simply launched a brand new menu at Varnish and as they are saying within the PR blurb, it has “an added female contact.” Sofie’s our type of lady, if “female” means her 18-hour smoked brisket with apple slaw and bourbon, rump tartare with bone marrow and potato crisps or her lamb ribs with Maker’s Mark barbecue glaze. Cease it!
The menu was launched this week. One doesn’t wish to sound like a damaged document, however must you go to Varnish to test-drive the menu, order a half-and-half Sazerac. They make the perfect on the town.