You know autumn has arrived in Perth when a 10am walk suddenly sounds like a good idea without any fear of being scorched. When you find yourself madly scrambling for an outdoor broom. When you grab a transeasonal layer on the way out the door, just in case the weather turns. And when everything, generally, feels a little cosier, a little slower, a little more worth savouring. That’s exactly the mood we’re chasing with this list. These are the ten places in Perth where a long, slow, vibey breakfast feels like the best possible use of a morning and the culinary credentials hit hard.
Kith Eatery, Nedlands
Kith means familiar friends and neighbours, and since opening in 2024, this Rezen Studio-designed corner of Aberdare Road has become exactly that for the Nedlands and Shenton Park communities. The lush, leafy fit out sets the tone: this is a space designed to be lingered in, and the menu, shaped by the heritage of owners Jess and Joel Sneeuwjagt, gives you every reason to do so.
In the kitchen is Executive Chef Alex Turner, whose career reads like a well-stamped passport. Raised in Healesville in the Yarra Valley, he began as a kitchen hand at Domaine Chandon at sixteen before moving through Canada, five years at Someday Coffee in Perth, six months in Lund, Sweden, and eventually London, where two formative experiences awaited. At Angela Hartnett’s Michelin starred Murano he witnessed the quiet attrition that defines too many professional kitchens. The corrective came at Brunswick House, where working as Restaurant Manager under Jackson Boxer restored his faith in the industry and gave him a rare fluency on both sides of the pass.
Turner shaped Kith’s menu from London before returning to Perth last September to fully take the reins. The chilli scrambled eggs are already a cult item. The pork and fennel sausage English muffin is a love letter to the humble brekkie roll. The aunty-approved congee comes with a story attached, and the tropical iced matcha, blending mango, passionfruit and honey, is unlike anything else on Perth’s breakfast circuit. Arrive early for Teeter Bakery treats at the counter.
What’s next is worth watching: an afternoon concept, a second Parkinson’s charity dinner, Kith Chilli Oil hitting local retailers, and a Cabin Fever collaboration with Borello Vineyards and Taylor Bradley of Weirs Butchers. Kith is still finding its ceiling, and that is a genuinely exciting thing.
Order: The Stakehill Tomato dish and the Scandi Plate.
Bossman Coffee, Mount Lawley
Tucked at the rear of an arcade off Beaufort Street, Bossman rewards those who know where to look. Low-lit, unhurried, and radiating a studied cool that never tips into pretension, it has been setting the standard for Mount Lawley coffee since long before that was expected of the suburb.
The espresso, pulled through Bossman’s own Twin Peaks blend, is the headline, and there’s a refreshing absence of coffee snobbery around it. The baristas are more likely to be dissecting pop culture than debating terroir, which is precisely the right energy for a neighbourhood hangout. The soundtrack is similarly considered.
Greek and Middle Eastern treats rule the counter, with the galaktoboureko sourced from an undisclosed local baker being the holy grail. Get there early. The sweet potato toastie with feta is brilliant, and the Boss Brownie has its own devoted following. This is a cafe that has figured out what it wants to be and executed it without compromise.
Order: Twin Peaks espresso and galaktoboureko (if you’re lucky)
Hinata Cafe, Fremantle
Hinata Cafe, tucked into the first floor of the Fremantle Fibonacci Centre, is an official Perth treasure. Owner Tomoe Echo, born on the Japanese island of Shikoku, came to this via an unlikely route: occupational therapy, a life lived between cultures, and an unshakeable conviction that the most nourishing food is the kind made with the instincts of a home cook rather than the ego of a chef. She describes herself as a shufu, a Japanese housewife, and means it as the highest possible compliment to the tradition. The space itself, awash in Japanese jazz, colourful knick-knacks and trailing greenery, nails the kissaten (Japanese coffee shop) brief perfectly.
Their autumn menu opens with the hinata brunch set – a monthly-changing one-plate spread of protein, veggie sides, tempura, miso soup, rice and dessert – alongside an ebi katsu sando of crispy prawn katsu, coleslaw, nitamago, yuzu mayo and aurora sauce on soft buttered bread. From there, a kinoko curry udon brings rich curry soup with udon, mushrooms, enoki tempura, renkon and spring onion, while the shio koji salmon dashi chazuke – warm dashi over rice with shio koji salmon, teriyaki tofu, mizuna and kizami nori – rounds things out.
Desserts are authentic, visual and fun running three dishes: the aki cream anmitsu brings dango, chestnut cream, houjicha ice cream, genmaicha jelly, anko and kokutou kurumi with a monaka on the side; the i love youuzu is a yuzu sorbet with yuzu agar jelly and candied citrus peel; and the taiyaki with ice cream pairs an azuki-filled fish-shaped waffle with black sesame ice cream, kuromitsu and candied walnuts.
Order: The Kinoko Curry Udon
Brother of Mine, Baldivis
Brother of Mine was in the first ever WAGFG digital Guide, back when we had a Top 50 – it made an impression then and continues to.
Baldivis might not be the first suburb that comes to mind when you’re planning a breakfast worth driving for. Brother of Mine will make you reconsider that instinct entirely. Opened in 2017 by brothers Ben and Jos Whettingsteel, this industrial-chic specialty roastery and cafe has built something genuinely rare: a suburban local with the ambition and execution of a city destination.
The coffee is the stuff of local legend, roasted in-house and served by a team that clearly loves what they’re doing. But it’s the food that earns Brother of Mine its place on this list. The mac and cheese croquettes are crispy and molten-centred, topped with crispy bacon lardons, chilli oil, chipotle mayo, poached eggs, wilted spinach and parmesan. Then there’s the sweet breakfast dish lineup; the apple Biscoff French toast, a fried brioche loaf with apple compote, Biscoff, vanilla mascarpone, cream cheese, biscuit crumb and butterscotch. The maple bacon waffles; Belgian with crispy bacon, sunny fried eggs, maple syrup, bacon jam and black salt butter, make a compelling case for abandoning any pretence of restraint.
The rooftop apiary and smoking pit round out a venue that takes its brief seriously from top to bottom.
Order: Mac and cheese croquettes and the apple Biscoff French toast
Side Piece Deli, Swanbourne
The name is cheeky by design. Side Piece is the latest opening from The Pantry Group, the team behind Daisies Cottesloe and The Other Side, and it arrives at 93 Shenton Road carrying a clear sense of purpose: pastries in the morning, serious sandwiches at lunch, and exactly the kind of place you’ll feel smug about discovering first.
What distinguishes Side Piece from the crowded field of Perth’s pastry-forward openings is a kitchen that resists the obvious. Pastry chef Eliza McCambridge-Dax brings genuine invention to the counter: smoky bacon, maple and walnut scrolls; brioche with pandan custard and coconut crumble; potato danishes; and ham and cheese croissants layered with mustard bechamel. The pain au chocolat, long and ridged, arrives looking more like a Hasselback potato than a classical viennoiserie, which is precisely the point.
The address has history too, having served the Swanbourne community for more than a century, from a greengrocer in the early 1900s through to tearooms and the much-loved Choux Cafe. The current incarnation feels like a worthy continuation of that thread.
Later in the day, head chef Jason Goodorally takes over with a Keralan fried chicken sandwich with kasundi aioli, a fish katsu sando with tamarind tonkatsu tucked into shokupan, and a spiced onion bhaji sandwich with fresh kachumber. Coffee is by Dukes. Open from 6am weekdays, 6.30am weekends.
Order: The pain au chocolat and the fish katdu sando.
Nogi Lane, Dianella
Named after the laneway behind it, this is the kind of neighbourhood cafe that every suburb quietly dreams of having. Co-owners Callum Ellis and Tracey Ly, both Dianella locals, transformed the former CoffeeMob space into something vibrant and genuinely worth the pilgrimage, with pastel green splashbacks, timber slats and playful artwork from Perth artist Jack Bromell.
In the kitchen, chef Jason Nicholas, formerly of Vasse Felix and Hotel Rottnest, takes the brunch canon and quietly reworks it through the lens of his Indian and Burmese heritage. The chilli scrambled eggs arrive with sambal that has mightly kick. The eggs benedict hollandaise is spiked with cardamom, turning a familiar dish into something with a more solid riff.
Coffee is by Five Senses, reliably excellent, and the banana and toffee pancake, topped with macadamia crumble, honey butterscotch and a vanilla ice cream waffle cone, is the kind of weekend excess that is entirely justified. Pup-friendly outside, warm and lively within. Open from 7am Tuesday to Sunday.
Order: Cardamom hollandaise eggs benny and the pulled beef version.
Mount Street Breakfast Bar, West Perth
Perched at the base of the steep escarpment that leads up to Kings Park, Mount Street Breakfast Bar occupies a specific Perth niche with total confidence. It is the breakfast destination for the post-Jacob’s Ladder crowd, the Kings Park morning walkers, the flat-dwellers who want something better than they could make themselves.
The menu is broad without being unfocused: Turkish eggs done properly, chilli crab and avocado toast that earns its place on the specials board, French toast that takes no shortcuts, and a breakfast burrito reliably packed with flavour. The outdoor terrace, enclosed in cooler weather, is where most of the action happens and it’s always buzzing.
The coffee is excellent and the staff handle the perennial weekend rush with the kind of warmth that makes you want to come back. At 42 Mount Street, it’s a short walk from the city’s western edge, but it rewards the effort entirely. Don’t leave without checking out the neighboring book store which a few of our team claim is the best in Perth. Open from 7am daily.
Order: Turkish eggs and whatever is on the specials board
The Cool Room, Fremantle (Holland St)
In a city that sometimes conflates ambition with complexity, The Cool Room on Holland Street makes a quiet and persuasive argument for the opposite. Chef Drew Dawson, who cooked at Nieuw Ruin, Lola’s and Beaconsfield Wine Bar before taking the reins here alongside baker Charlotte Beeton, has built a breakfast menu of studied restraint. A seasonal market fruit plate cut to order. A toast course anchored by an in-house Guinness and treacle soda bread, served with whipped butter and house-made jams. Beeton’s counter contributions, mandarin and polenta cake, brown butter rye and chocolate cookies, complete the picture with equal precision.
It is not a menu that tries to impress so much as a menu that tries to nourish, which, on a cool autumn morning in the converted butcher’s shop on Holland Street, amounts to the same thing. The bacon bap with prune and apple ketchup remains the one concession to indulgence, and it is a very good one.
Order: Toast course with house jam and the bacon bap.
Forklore, West Perth
Brothers Hanji and Hanli Khor, the force behind Bayswater’s beloved tbsp, opened Forklore in a former office space at the entrance to City West Centre, and it has since become one of the most compelling breakfast destinations in Perth. The name nods to Asian folklore and the siblings’ playful sense of identity. The menu, helmed by head chef Brian Kong, is a confident rejection of the standard Perth brunch playbook.
Tonkotsu congee with pork-neck chashu, an ajitama egg, mustard greens and burnt garlic oil is deeply flavoured and entirely satisfying. The XO scrambled eggs and shokupan French toast sit alongside udon noodles with cod roe and soft-boiled eggs. The croissants, shaped like Japanese onigiri, have become a signature worth taking home.
The fitout, clean, modern, awash in greenery and light, belies the unexpected location. Walk-ins only. Open from 7am weekdays and 8am on weekends. Worth arriving early; the word is well and truly out.
Order: Tonkotsu congee and an onigiri croissant for the road
Satchmo Cafe, North Perth
To understand Satchmo, you need to understand the Karnovsky connection. When Louis Armstrong was a young boy growing up in poverty in New Orleans, it was the Karnovsky family who took him in, fed him, employed him and, by Armstrong’s own account, helped shape the man he would become. Nathan Karnovsky, who opened this corner cafe on Fitzgerald Street in 2015, carries that lineage lightly but deliberately: the vinyl records, the jazz on the speakers, the New Orleans soul food sensibility underpinning a menu built around the great Jewish deli traditions.
Mamma’s matzo ball chicken soup is a dish that earns its devotees. The Reuben, piled with pastrami, sauerkraut, cheese and Russian dressing, is a menu staple. Blueberry-cheese blintzes with caramelised banana occupy a place somewhere between breakfast and dessert and couldn’t care less. The 2022 move two doors down gave Satchmo high ceilings, recycled timber and gorgeous morning light, but the soul of the original remained entirely intact.
Order: The Reuben on a bagel and mamma’s matzo ball soup
