a spewing of sorts

Since I got back from Darwin I've been going crazy eating eating alla time eating... Darwin has some amazingly good food but the bulk of it is Asian with a few rare exceptions: hi Manoli's :-).

I've missed deli's and great bread, Italian food and amazing butchers.. so it seems like everywhere I go these days there's something I want to try or write about. I've also realised that I've been storing up all these little Perth food nuggets for years and now I finally get a chance to write about them! So I'm starting with the Mount Lawley strip because that's where I scour the mean streets looking for my lunch.

Antonio's Continental Deli must be one of Mount Lawley's most loved institutions - an Italian deli, in a nondescript alleyway tucked in behind a tobacconists and a butcher, it opened around 12 years ago. It also has the sweetest women working there! It does a roaring trade in lunch rolls cos they are sooooo good... so good that when I'm getting one I have been known to textually torment my sister to which I can pretty much guarantee an anguished and/or abusive response. My favourite is the swiss cheese continental roll with all the salads - this guarantees a crisp italian roll (fluffy on the inside) stuffed with layers of swiss, beetroot, cucumber, tomato, spanish onion and any other yumminess you can dream up - everything that should be in a roll and so rarely is.

Anyway I digress - the reason I started this post is because of their pizzas.
Every Friday for years now Antonio's have gotten in stacks of wood fired pizza's neatly wrapped in their individual plastic bags, all ready to be taken home and loved. They used to be a cool five bucks and 12 years later they're 8 bucks (that's an inflation rate of 25c a year!). They come in potato, zucchini, eggplant, a plain mushroom and tomato and on occasion I've seen a hawaiian tenderly placed in the fridge. They even sell the plain bases (which the Antonio ladies tell me MUST be turned upside down and the topping placed on the bottom so it doesn't slide off). Anyway, now that I've told you about them I don't want you to have any. More for me.

Antonio's: 7/623 Beaufort St Mount Lawley, 7 days a week

http://www.antoniosfresh.com.au/

Perth: good meat hunting

I just have to send a big shout out to Mondo's butchers on Beaufort Street in Inglewood for making the best pies I have ever tasted, anywhere EVER.  I had one years ago but didn't have a food blog that I could write in because they hadn't been invented yet.  But now I have and so I will say these puppies haven't changed a BIT in all these years - they are just SUBLIME, crammed full of huge chunks of steak and pieces of real mushroom (apologies to the vegetarians), no gravy overload here and the best pastry I have ever tasted. I also bought a chicken one for my housie and even though it was full of massive yummy chunks of chicken AND she offered me some, I only had eyes for my new girlfriend the Mondo's meat pie.


Mondo's:  824 Beaufort St Inglewood
Times:  Open every day but Sunday and Monday (busy prepping all that loveliness I'm guessing)

http://www.mondo.net.au/

I'm baaaaa-ackk!

Hey there

I realise it's been, like, YEARS (months probably) and for that I can only apologise.  I went to New York (see attached New York Yankees doughnut) and was so despondent when I got back that I just couldn't do it! But I'm back and I'm eating.  The main differences are that:

1) My main eating hangout will be Perth for some time, which doesn't mean that I won't be posting up Darwin tips that come my way (hi Sam).  So send them to me. 

2) The old blog got taken over by some chick holding a puppy so you'll find me now at www.chickwithguts2.blogspot.com (I think).  All the old posts are here so anyone hunting for the lowdown on Darwin eating will be able to find them still. 

3) I have a macbook now so I won't be trying to manage my blog in worktime (oops).

4) I have a new camera so won't be posting any more dodgy cameraphone shots.

Very excited and looking forward to sharing more eating adventures!

The chickwithguts (x 2) X