You can use Lalla Rookh in many ways, from a beer or glass of wine in the bar, to a meal in the lauded Italian restaurant to a snack and full wine immersion in the shop/enoteca soaking up the vast trove of carefully selected wines.
Sommelier Jeremy Prus oversees the wine program, but it’s perhaps in the Wine Store that you’ll best appreciate his efforts. While the Bar & Eating House carry a more than healthy 160 lines, with about 35 by the glass or 375ml carafe, including seven premium pours from Coravin (think Barolo, Barbaresco, Brunello), Prus has all 500-odd bins on offer in the store. The store also ups the ante with 40 by-the-glass options, with ten via Coravin. These are available in 60ml and 120ml pours, and range broadly in price. There certainly aren’t many venues pouring Sylvain Cathiard Premier Cru Burgundy by the glass!
While the list for the Bar & Eating House revolves primarily around Italian and Australian wines, the Wine Store takes a broader approach, taking in the old and new worlds with depth in both producers and vintages. As befits the enoteca model, all wines are available to take away, or can be consumed in store for only a $10 supplement. And if you need a little advice, you’re in good hands here with Prus (and team) who is a Certified Sommelier with New York’s Court of Master Sommeliers.
The menu is Italian in spirit, though not slavishly traditional, with ten small plates (that can be up-sized) followed by half a dozen pasta/risotto choices, a few more pizzas, and a selection of mains, crowned with chef Calum MacKechnie’s take on the mighty bistecca alla Fiorentina, which is first cold smoked with hickory and rosemary. All this is available in the Wine Store, too, or there’s a more compact bar carte available if you prefer.
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Owners Sam and Tom Hart had lived in north-western Perth suburb Doubleview for several years before opening The Corner Dairy in 2021. “We’d been wanting a place like this to go to,” says Sam. “We refitted an old tax office into what we thought would be an ideal casual, laidback spot where people could hang out and try some interesting beers and wines, and eat some delicious food without having to leave the neighbourhood.”
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