The Cabin Small Bar

The Cabin Wine Bar and Bistro

Saturday, June 27, 2009

IF I ever move out of home you'll find me at The Cabin in Mt Hawthorn sprawled over a club armchair surrounded by some new BFF.

In fact, The Cabin could easily be the living room of an eccentric BFF - complete with bizarre ornaments, prints on face-brick walls, flickering candles behind glass-doored cupboards and a fabulous collection of wines to sample. Oh, and a couple of mounted stag heads. But this is way better than going to a friend’s house for dinner – you don’t have to feign an interest in cleaning up, the food is top restaurant quality and styled artistically on beautiful white plates. There’s an infectious energy running through the joint. In a word – it’s fantastic. It takes one sip of tempranillo while perched at a high-top free-form timber table to become part of the furniture of what really is an expensively refurbished old apartment. The clipboard-style menu, under plastic, lists a classy range of simple contemporary dishes. The litmus test was our rare decision to plough through to dessert, after licking our mains plates clean. First, though, we were tantalised with a trio of duck...

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