The Greenhouse
If you’ve been trundling down St Georges Terrace in the past few months, no doubt you would have seen the construction of one of Perth’s most anticipated small bars slash restaurants. The Greenhouse.
Drawn from the valiant effort of its older sister in Melbourne, Perth’s version has the rooftop garden (complete with veggie patch, fruit trees, and herb rows) and that oh so intriguing external lattice. Yes, those are individual terracotta pots. Yes, strawberries. Hundreds of them.
The idea here is simple. Be green. Minimise the carbon foot print. Make us scratch our heads over the energy inefficient lives we live. From the straw-bale insulation to the recycled plastic-container reinforced concrete, every effort has been made to reduce, reuse and recycle. More planning has gone into this than meets the eye. It’s one of those light bulb moments, where the environment and architecture have combined. It’s the way it should have always been. Ecologically sound, holistic approached. In many ways, The Greenhouse is leading by example.
On the menu you’ll find offerings for breakfast, lunch and dinner. All ingredients are sourced from producers either biodynamic or organic. Crushed peas & basil, poached eggs & toast to break your fast, or the tomato & goats curd tart, mixed leaves, aged balsamic for a midday feast, and dinner time it looks like a tapas. Piquillo pepper & manchego croquettes and pig head & trotter terrine, pickled cherries. Yum. And very reasonably priced.
It’s an interesting little zone, the Greenhouse. It’s unbleached, organic and recycled. It’s unapologetic hippy-esque nature lends to the charm. There is a prodigiously young staff-ship who look like they’re on their way to a Copenhagen; chirpy, hard-wired for action, in the first flush of youth.
Can’t wait to see those strawberries bloom. And for the place to put down roots.
The Greenhouse
100 St. Georges Terrace
Perth WA 6000
Mon & Tues 7am – 5pm
Wed to Sat 7am -12am
Tags: CBD, Greenhouse, Perth, Small Bar, The Greenhouse
December 18th, 2009 at 5:00 pm
Have to admit…that place does look kinda cool.
December 25th, 2009 at 9:17 pm
I had breakfast here last week and have to say I was really disappointed. The service was terrible – it too half an hour to get our coffees, completely unacceptable at 8am on the terrace. The food was okay but nothing to write home about. Reasonably priced but I’d rather pay a few dollars more for a decent meal. Pity because there’s really nowhere decent that end of the terrace for breakfast.
December 29th, 2009 at 6:44 pm
I was actually there last week as well around 8ish, and from what I saw over the counter, those guys on the coffee machine didn’t look like they were standing around doing nothing.
It’s a shame that my coffee as well took a while, but I’d blame it on the poor layout of the greenhouse coffee side, and the lack of staff by the looks of it. I must’ve watched my coffee sitting on the bar bench for at least five minutes while the two barista’s kept calling for the orders to be taken out.
Complete shame.
February 18th, 2010 at 7:15 pm
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February 19th, 2010 at 3:15 pm
Went there on 17th Feb 2010 for lunch for my daughters birthday surprise. Hot humid day. Table booked, stood for quite a while whilst staff brushed past us, Eventually seated “how is your day so far” “hot” “better get you a drink then”. 10/15 mins past before we were attended to. Drinks order taken……… 10 mins still nothing, gave a dirty look to staff, who seemed to latch on to the fact I was getting a tad annoyed. Wine poured, bottle vanishes across the room! Had to keep asking staff (eventually when we caught their eyes) to pour another drink, eventually my daughter just got up and walked to where the bottle was and helped her self. Food order taken, now this can get confusing, both my wife and my daughter went for the one and only type of pizza, my daughter said “could I have mine with no chili?”"Yes not a problem”. Food arrived…… only one pizza and it had chili on!! The place has quirky styling, cool building and interesting use of materials. The staff??? Manager apologized for communication problems and “gave us” the one pizza. Happy? No! will we ever go back I doubt it! Will we recommend it no! My daughter works with about 50 others all of whom asked “how was it?” One can imagine what her replay was. The staff seem to be far quirkier that the building. Suggest get some trained staff! Such a pity.
May 21st, 2010 at 9:04 pm
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