Love Freo

Went to Wild Poppy on Wray Avenue for breakfast this morning.

As you can see there’s lots going on with the decor: textures, salvage, colour, Ikea, vintage and a bit of granny-chic (lace, patchwork and crochet) thrown in for good measure.

Me and The Brunette had the Veggie Breakfast and the Chorizo Omlette respectively. The former was cooked perfectly the latter came with mushrooms, spinach, scrambled egg, tomato and French bread toast. Both were tasty and did the job (breakfast stops at 11.30am).

I spotted a router on the counter-top and asked one of the staff if they had WiFi. She said they did but her boss had the password and he/she had stepped out for a while, she also said that it tends to be a bit patchy.

Wild Poppy,
2 Wray Avenue,
Fremantle,
WA 6162.

Phone: 9430 8555
Open for breakfast and lunch.

Front Section

Seating Area

Lounge Area

I’m kicking myself that I haven’t been to this wonderful little eatery sooner: I was put off once by their specials board declaring some dish with peanuts, and peanuts have me running for the hills (a severe nut allergy rather than a legume phobia), and I didn’t make it back to  give them a second chance, more fool me.

I love curries, I love south-east Asian curries in particular and now I have finally been to this place I have a whole menu to explore. I was too busy chatting with Michelle – the Love Freo blog-reader who insisted I try this place out – to do anything useful, like write down what my dish was called, or make a note of their opening hours. But I did get this superbly average picture with the Love Freo phone-cam which doesn’t really come close to doing the food justice.

My lamb curry was delicious, rich in flavour, with good quality non-fatty lamb, and cost about 10 bucks, which for Freo is an absolute bargain. The blonde likes a good laksa too, so I’d say we’ll be fairly regular at this gaff.

Delicious food at Cafe 55. The fly on the papadum (not the Cafe's fault) was just an added bonus.

Thanks to Michelle for suggesting this place. People please feel free to suggest any other glaring omissions from the Love Freo food hall. Next week: Hungry Jack’s!

Café 55
55 High Street
Fremantle
WA 6160
(08) 9336 2604‎

Open from sometime in the morning until about 3pm (I think).

Open Piano Tuesday

We dropped into X-Wray this evening to test the mojitos and we weren’t disappointed. Limey, minty, sweet, alcoholic. Mixed with flair by the friendly bar-keep: X-Wray is cool. They have a piano equivalent of an open mic night on Tuesdays as well, so that was a bit of a bonus for us, he was great. Unfortunately my video clips (of mojitos and piano playing) won’t upload, so you’ll have to take my word for. But the pianist chap is doing a gig this weekend (well, pretty sure it’s the same guy). Go and check it out, and watch this space for more on X-Wray.

Upcoming gig at X-Wray

Xwray Café and Bar

13 Essex St,
Fremantle,
WA 6160.

Phone: 9430 9399

There was great joy when I suggested to the Melbourne Man to try out Fremantle’s new Chocolateria San Churro. Well, it’s not actually brand new – opened its doors last December – but we hadn’t been there before. But, oh man, we will be back! This place is a Mecca for chocolate lovers. There’s an extensive menu full of chocolaty sins like chocolate fondue, hot chocolates, chocolate cakes, … We went for the chocolate ice cream (choice of white, milk or dark) which comes with warm chocolate sauce by the side (also here you can choose between white, milk or dark) and it was rich, chocolaty and simply divine. ‘Better to have enjoyed and made a mess than to never have enjoyed at all’ – oh yeah! You’ll find Chocolateria San Churro behind Cino’s, 91 Market Street, Fremantle, Phone 9336 7557, fremantle@sanchurro.com.au

Follow this sign

Sweets on the Counter

Chocolate Truffles

Inside the Chocolateria

Nice Design

Yesterday I had the good fortune to be quite hungry as I was walking past Breaks, so I popped in there with the blonde’s bro for a bite to eat.  As this place used to be Soho Soho burger bar, we decided to have a ‘Moo’ burger each…

I like my burgers, and this was an excellent one. The mince was juicy and full of flavour, obviously from a nice piece of beef, the bun was fresh, fluffy and just a bit crispy and the chips were covered in some sort of magic salt that prompted us to go for an extra portion. A great value meal, v v tasty. The flat white was good too.

If you’ve walked past this place and though it looks small, think again, behind the large counter area is a full dining area. Next time you fancy a burger, you could do much worse than go here. You can also pick up one of our new and free LOVE FREO promo postcards that the friendly manager/owner(?) let us put on the counter. Bon apetit. One more thing, Breaks doesn’t have a licence, but you can BYO.

Breaks Fremantle
85 High Street,
Fremantle,
WA 6160.

This is in the ladies toilets at X-wray. I pondered it for a while. Would a bar/restaurant really plug in its freezer in the toilet? The cable goes off up towards the roof to somewhere unknown so maybe it really is the freezer.

Turn Off and Die

Xwray Café and Bar

13 Essex St, Fremantle, WA 6160.