Amanda Keenan

Nov 2, 2024 | thewest.com.au | Amanda Keenan

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Sep 28, 2024 | thewest.com.au | Amanda Keenan

Photographing your lunch so that it doesn’t look like an actual dog’s breakfast is surprisingly difficult. It’s also challenging because your eye-rolling mates generally don’t appreciate having to wait for permission to commence eating while you faff around trying to make sure the schnitty isn’t sitting in a shadow. Plus, you usually look and feel like a massive tool while you’re at it.

Aug 31, 2024 | thewest.com.au | Amanda Keenan

The Crown Metropol lobby is absolutely pumping on a rainy Saturday. The valet guys can’t move cars quickly enough and Casa de Crown, a coastal-themed “sun-soaked haven” replete with faux palms and a view of those magnificent art deco glass elevators, is packed with ladies getting loose on the cocktails.

May 11, 2024 | thewest.com.au | Amanda Keenan

There’s long been a well-beaten brouhaha about who invented the pavlova. The New Zealand government even has a web page devoted to its insistence that the original pav was not conceived in Perth by chef Bert Sachse at the Esplanade Hotel in 1935, but at a Wellington establishment almost a decade earlier.

Apr 27, 2024 | thewest.com.au | Amanda Keenan

There was a time when shopping centre dining was little more than a fluorescent procession of bains-marie brimming with specialties sweet and/or sour. Maybe there was a rotating stump of mystery meat shaved onto Lebanese bread, a few deep-fried fruits de mer and a burger or three.