Lunch around Freo
Here are some places to have lunch in and around Fremantle and the Swan River nearby. I've given the price for fish and chips if I could find it.
The change of name from Beach St Cafe mainly meant the prices went up, but the menu is more sophisticated. However, it still includes fish and chips with salad $23.50. On Fridays, when it's Fish day, it's only $15.
Since I took that photo, the building has been enclosed out to the street. They still allow dogs inside, however, which might/should be illegal.
This was a [[../hotels/leftbank.html|residence]] which had been abandoned for many years on Riverside Rd East Fremantle before being refurbished as a tavern. The menu includes beer battered fishnchips @ $26.
There's been a restaurant here, on Riverside Rd East Fremantle, for decades, since 1921. It used to be called The Oyster Beds until 1997, because it actually farmed oysters on site. Among other things it was the Red Herring for a few years. Here's the Dome's menu, which doesn't show prices.
This was a burger joint called the Leeuwin Chewin, but was rebuilt, on Riverside Road East Fremantle. Its new name is deserved: it's exposed to the westerly. The menu includes fishnchips - prices are not shown online, tho they do serve fishnchips.
I've never had lunch here, and the website says that it's a strict members-only club, so I guess you'd have to have a member take you. The menu includes beer-battered fishnchips $17 members/$24 guests. On Riverside Road East Fremantle, it's just around the corner of Preston Point from the Zephyr Cafe.
Last time I had lunch here it was the Boardwalk Restaurant (yes, it has a boardwalk). So I can't report on the Greek food - but apparently they do the plate-smashing thing. The menu includes fishnchips $22.
At Point Walter, this is another humble tearooms that has been booted upmarket by an injection of cash. The menu include fishnchips $24. There is a kiosk attached which does fishnchips, icecreams etc. The Spit offers one of Perth's best walks: eighteen minutes right out into the middle of the River - one kilometre.
This is on the north bank of the Swan in Mosman Park about a hundred metres from Peppermint Grove, so it's classy and not cheap. Here are the photos I took last time I had lunch there. It used to be a humble tearooms, but like everything else on the River has been rebuilt. On their menu, cone bay barramundi, creamed celeriac purée, runner beans, pancetta, chicory pesto, pomegranate molasses costs $45.
On Hackett Drive Crawley, between the University of WA and the Royal Perth Yacht Club, this is an upmarket establishment ('we politely request a smart casual attire with no thongs or singlets') whose menu includes grilled snapper, smoked aubergine, quinoa, broccolini, broad bean salad, Persian feta (gf) (nf) $45.
In the Nedlands Baths, JoJo's menu includes fish of the day is called Pesce Del Giorno (Fillet of Barramundi) with baby carrots, charred corn, broccolini, salsa verde and costs $38. The building also houses the functions facility called Acqua Viva.
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