A grand dame of West Australian pubs basks in the sunset.
The sunset crowd have flocked here to the Verandah Bar for decades to sink a pint in parallel with the nightly show. Get in early for a prime spot looking over the beach westward. While the hotel now has the addition of The Beach Club to the rear, and the newly opened Tigerfish on the south side (placed separately in our Top 100), it has retained its heritage through the years. This was one of Perth’s first oceanside pubs, opened in the first decade of the last century and remodelled in its current art-deco style in the 1930s. It retains that salt and sand casualness you want as you pull on a tee and hot-foot it from the beach. Modern pub fare is the go across the verandah and club, from salt and pepper squid to pizza, but it’s all anchored by a wood-fired grill menu offering up free-range half chooks with a North African inclination (harissa buttermilk and cous cous). As you’d expect, Fridays are busy but even moreso with the promise of freshly shucked oysters in the front.
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