Chapters Bistro, Currambine
I am on a quest to find Perth’s best dining out Sunday roast lunch and decided to start my search with Chapter’s Bistro in Currambine.
It’s located in amongst the Currambine shopping centre, close to the cinema, and boasts a Sunday lunch for $25 – you get the roast meat of the day with all the trimmings for this price. You really have to book because it gets fully booked out pretty quickly, and you have to provide a credit card number to secure your table.
Service was friendly and I started with a glass of San Martino prosecco. The wine list is quite good and has some appealing cocktails.
Roast of the day was pork with crackling. Roast chicken is also a menu staple. If you want to share there is a ‘posh roast’ for two which consists of black angus sirloin and all the trimmings. We chose the pork.
It was really lovely to have more than two roast potatoes, and the variety of veggies was good – peas, cabbage, squash puree, and carrots. The crackling was beautifully crunchy and the yorkshire pudding of epic proportions. Yorkshire pudding is not a traditional accompaniment to pork, but I think those of us of British origin are generally happy to have a yorkie with any roast, whether it’s beef or not.
In general the meal was under seasoned. We asked for salt and pepper and also had to ask for apple sauce. In my opinion the traditional sauces should be offered as standard. I also like to put my own gravy on my lunch so would have preferred the gravy in a boat. It was nice gravy though.
When it came to asking for a dessert menu, the service was a bit lacking. We tried to flag somebody down, but no amount of waves or excuse me’s would attract anybody’s attention until eventually after ten minutes of trying a waitress noticed.
After all that we chose not to go with dessert – they all seemed quite heavy on the dairy.
As Sunday lunches go, it was quite a good one. I’m tempted to go back and try the posh roast, but I think the lack of seasoning is holding me back a little. We’ll see.
Truly Scrumptious 
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