Loose Box

Loose Box Review

Perth's finest French restaurant in semi-rural Mundaring is run by owner-chef Alain Fabregues, who has received France's highest culinary honor, the Meilleur Ouvrier de France, as well as a French knighthood—Chevalier Dans L'Ordre National du Merite—for his contribution to French culture and cuisine. His degustation menu applies classical French culinary principles to Australia's best seasonal bounty: there's le blinis d'oiseaux au Raifort (quail, duck and chicken folded with kipfler potato in a blinis of chives and olives) and le nougat glacé (French traditional nougat, made with honey, pistachio and hazelnut, served chilled on a strawberry coulis with caramel strands). There is no à la carte option. Each room (the restaurant used to be a house) is cozy, intimate, and warm. Accommodation is available, if you just can't bring yourself to leave.