We booked alfresco on a cold winters day as planned to bring our dog Frankie. He didn't end up coming with us but we still sat outside as it was enclosed and we were seated in front of a warm fire. The staff are very friendly and helpful. Service was prompt and efficient. The food was great! We shared oysters Kilpatrick and the creamy clams - yum!!! I then had the surf and turf and the prawns were delicious! It was so big I didn't finish eating the steak and didn't even touch the salad as the chips were too tasty. Hubby really enjoyed his parmi and step daughter her burger. We couldn't fit another thing in and rolled out of there content and very satisfied.
This is an absolute institution in Kalamunda and Gooseberry Hill. This is more of a special occasion place as it's by no means budget, but the quality is there to justify the prices. Special mention to the carpetbag steak - it is to die for.
Nice staff. Plenty of room in the restaurant and you don’t feel you are in a confined place. Very huge menu and you can choose whatever you want, seafood, pizza, pasta, meat and chicken dishes... good size for each meal. Prices are reasonable. They do have hot and cold drinks.
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After a search on Zomato for our after church lunch venue, we came here as first-timers last week. We did not know we are supposed to book in advance, but the waitress team was very helpful and managed to find us a table just when we’re about to walk back to the car. We love the food! The pasta was al dente and spot on, the pizza had the right amount of crisp, and despite we ordered the all meat one, was not overpowering. The chilli mussel was fresh and fragrant, and the chicken parma was also pretty great.
Hands down the best place to eat in Perth for breakfast, lunch and dinner! Phenomenal customer service who go above and beyond to meet customers needs, very knowledgeable and professional. The food is simply amazing you couldn’t complain about this restaurant and will never leave hungry!! + fantastic gluten free options!
An absolute gem up in the hills, i have never had a bad meal at Embers the staff are always amazing and the food is fantastic, best desserts around especially the cheesecakes, and nothing is to much trouble when ordering takeaways, our families favorite place for breakfast lunch and diner.
Gorgeous restaurant and amazing food. Best chilli mussels I’ve ever had, and served perfectly with water bowl and shell bowl and mussel fork. Great service, outstanding food, so many options. Excellent takeaway too.
Enjoyed a fantastic Chilli Mussels, I always try this at most restaurants around Perth WA, very often its pretty tasteless, plan to go back again real soon.
Wow! We visited Embers upon recommendation of a friend who had last been many years ago. The dinner was for a birthday celebration of 3 of the 4 guests. We we all amazed how popular the restaurant is. The service was excellent and the mature waiter was magnificent. But when the food arrived, steak with blue cheese sauce, OMG! If it wasn't for the large portion you receive, we would have ordered that meal again and skipped dessert.
Amazing food, service excellent and great character. A definite must to return.
Thank you Embers for making our celebration special
We came here for dinner as part of a large group on a Saturday night and OMG I think I had the best salad of my life. I think the honey soy sesame chicken salad pictured was even better than it looks! All our meals came out together (a feat with such a large group) and we were never left without a drink. Great service and food all-round.
Loved it! amazing food will definitely be back friendly service! Nice busy atmosphere! Serve are a little bit on the big side, reasonable wine list
Consistently great food, great service and atmosphere. Excellent wine list. Keep up the work embers you're a star in the Perth hills community!
Found a new favourite in the hills. Took a chance without booking on a cold, rainy Sunday place was busy, staff bent over backwards to get us a table. Amazing food and excellent service. Will be back for sure!
We went here for my birthday dinner and they were very accommodating (they allowed us to provide the cake) The food was excellent, our entire family enjoyed their various foods. There was a variety for my vegetarian needs and plenty of options for my carnivorous family. The restruant was bustling but we still got our food in due time. I definitely recommend it if your up in the perth hills !
Highly recommended when in the area, especially before/after taking in the views at the zig zags. Large portions of delicious pasta. I really enjoyed the evening, also managed to sneak in some desert at the end as well 😋
Went here for lunch on a Sat. Ordered the Giardino salad and No Cow burger followed by Chocolate Beetroot cake. Both the mains were very good quality, Unlike most places, a small jar of parmesan was provided with the Giardino salad that was great. Burger was pretty good too with thick cut chips. Chocolate Beetroot did not have much of a Beetroot taste to it but was not bad. Decor could do with a bit of refurbishment though & toilet is directly opposite the kitchen that is a bit odd.
Food is always delicious and very filling. Busy little place so book a table! Atmosphere is good, wait staff are helpful and prices are reasonable.
Good food, impeccable service, we were seated outside and our waiter came to our table to confirm the order as we made a change to a dish due to allergies, he asked us how our meals were and checked in at the right times. Overall impressed at my first dinner at Embers, when we lived in the area we would get takeaways (good) and occasionally I drive up for a roll and chips. Everyone enjoyed their meal especially the nicoise salad.
Nice food but little bit disappointed with the service....and the time take bit longer to coming the food... We will come back but service need to be bit faster
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Hello all..... After reading all the master chef fine dining cooks rate this place it's clear to me that your knowledge of good food is lacking.... And the way half of you talk it's clear that your also a little retarded.....
I have eaten all over the place and I am personal friends with restaurant owners so I'm pretty well rounded when it comes to allot of things food related.... And I know what I don't like and honestly I love this place!!!!
Food is consistently clean, full flavoured and heaps on the plate.... I have eaten everything on the menu and can't fault anything.... The only complaint I have about this little gem is that sometimes we can't get a table...
Drinks have been great and made with attention to detail.....
So all in all yeah it's not fine dining but you get more than what you pay for every time.... And I wouldnt eat there often if it was anything less than great food, great price and great atmosphere.....
So if all you wanna be food critics don't like the place then great!!!! I hate it when I can't get a table
Lunch for 5 of us was fantastic. Served in timely manner, nice and hot and deliciously tastefull. Staff were very helpfull and attentive and responded to our requests promptlt. Thoroughly recommended. We went at 1.30 pm great time as not overly busy.
Snuck in for a cheeky lunch. Welcoming environment. Staff were really great and made us feel really comfortable. Great menu. We will be back.
My favourite local. Food is always delicious. Portions are very very big, keeps the man happy. Tim tim cheesecake what more can you ask for to top off a delicious meal. Great service, very friendly staff whether busy or quiet. Sometimes sit in the covered outdoor area with the dog. Coffee is awesome.
A total Gem! Make sure you book as we managed to grab the last available spot on a Friday night in advance. The garlic bread is delicious with just the right amount of garlic . Mains of beef parmi and pasta and also spinach ricotta gnocchi couldn't have been more different but both amazing. The ambience has a warm buzz of people enjoying company and food and the service was attentive but not over bearing. I would recommend Embers to anyone wanting an Italian Dining Experience. ❤️
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Have been many times since and breakfast is lovely
Whatever issues they had- they have responded fixed up or maybe a bad day last time I visited.
Delicious breakfast this morning - big serves and friendly service. Hollandaise perfect!
Coffee much better too. Thanks Embers.
Glad to be able to update!
Came for breakfast this morning at Embers...was a late breakfast at 10.30 the place was empty.
Full compliment of choices available I chose Eggs Benedict for $17 - a favourite and my husband the Phat Breakfast at $23 - (big breakfast with the usual).
Came out pretty quick, my hollandaise sauce was really thin and cracked ...the bread pretty hard to break though even pressing hard on the knife.
The Phat Breakfast was ok. Just ok.
Coffee...Fiori in a mug was bitter ...usually I like Fiori coffee but really bitter.
Service was friendly and good. Quick, polite not intrusive.
Walked in earlier this evening (Sunday) and had a great experience. We sat outside with the fire going and it was lovely and warm. Food was delicious but massive servings. We had a really great waitress as well, who was sweet and attentive but not intrusive. Will definitely be back!
Very tasty well sized meals. Fast friendly service. Tables available inside but we asked for an outside. No problem but would need to be done by a time. No drama depending on food service. All very relaxed and efficient
Can't go past embers for a group dinner! Enough options to keep everyone happy. The food is yum and great value. Staff are attentive, but not over baring. One of our go-to places for dinner.
This establishment is always very busy so make sure you make a reservation as not to disappoint.
The meals are huge and very tasty, the service was very good with average prices for Perth, definitely would recommend.
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Having ate the Duck, Beetroot risotto I believe a whole Duck and several beetroot ended up on my plate with a teaspoon of rice !!! Now I'm a Duck fan and the combo went down well, but if your in for fine dining, this may not be your cup of tea and the slice of cheddar on top was .... odd ?? My partner went for the Festa Sana with chicken (and once again HUGE) with the chicken seasonings a little overpowering but overall, nice.
What this place is however, a classic local eatery for the cashed up working class serving GENEROUS portions at reasonable prices. Ladies your man won't go hungry here and there is an attempt at a dash of class. The decor is slightly dated and lots of hard surfaces (and out table wobbled Grrrr!! )mean its a tad noisy but its a warm, busy family and friends affair.
Plenty of food and drink options an eclectic atmosphere and if your not nit picking on fancy feast this place really hits the mark for a local eatery.
Perhaps a few tweaks on decor and the finesse of food, winding back on the flavourings and concentrating on quality of ingredients needed ? But really is value for money and the proof of popularity was the fact that it was packed.... what more need I say ... we couldn't eat everything but the affagato was done properly !!!
I judge on how it was but for what its designed to achieve 9/10.
Excellent food, service, value. We have been twice in the past 6 weeks and have arranged a third time already. My wife and I are quite fussy so this alone speaks volumes about this venue. Give it a try, you won't be disappointed.
Brilliant for breakfast! The poached eggs are always perfect and the coffee is much better than next door.
The lack of mobile phone coverage gives a 'dining in the 90s' vibe.
Have tried delivery from this restaurant several times and have always been pleased. Tonight we tried four different dishes and each of them were amazing. Great quality, excellent sized serves. What more can you ask for - great meals, great value for money and delivered right to your door!! Highly recommended. Thanks very much Embers!
Pricey, but well worth it. Great Italian food, lovely wood-fired pizzas. You must book. Can be a bit noisy inside, outside can be nice. Wonderful puddings and great coffee. Recommend.
Possibly the most well known restaurant amongst the hills people. Went there a few times, delish food, friendly service, it's just that it gets quite loud at night and we all had to yell at each other to be heard. Not a major problem so I'll definitely be back.
Another great evening at Embers - we are never disappointed at this venue. Great welcome, excellent service, superb food and wine, and the ambience is spot-on. Thanks again Embers team and best wishes.
Fantastic every time!. My husband and I have been going her for over 7 years and the food is very good quality and well priced. If there has ever been a minor muck up or we are left waiting long they always deal with it appropriately. No complaints here!!!
Fantastic. Great menu, Generous sized portions!
Recently had my birthday dinner here and couldn't have been happier with the service provided.
Fantastic. Friends took us for a meal on Friday evening, I was so impressed with the embers Mignon my wife and I went back on the following Sunday. We were prepared to be disappointed as we did not expect the same meal to be as enjoyable as the first. Well we were proved wrong, the meal was once again as flavoursome as we remembered and the steak was cooked exactly as we had ordered. Well done to the staff for their friendly service and most of all thank you to the chefs for making it the most memorable meals we have had in some time.
Great food, lovely & very friendly staff & very well priced. Keep up the good work Embers. We've never been let down yet after a 5 year following
Perfect for a cool Autumn night. A lovely cosy and unpretentious restaurant in the lovely perth hills. Lots of home style food presented in a rustic setting.
A real hidden gem! Very tasty menu and big servings for both entree and main. Fantastic service. Check it out!
AMAZING. Brilliant pizza for great prices!
The woodfired pizza is A+.
Never left unsatisfied or disappointed!
Diner from Perth. Love this place!
Great ambiance, busy cafe with tasy meals. Highly recommend :)
Friendly and filling. Many years now of being an Embers regular... Both restaurant and take away. We dined friday night and although they where packed out the staff where amazingly friendly and helpful. The food as always was sensational. The pizza's are a must as is the homemade Tim Tam cheesecake!
Food is excellent! and well priced. Whilst the wait staff were really pleasant, they were 'rushed off their feet' and this was evident in the way they 'rushed' around. One waiter (very pleasantly) stood over us whilst one of us finished the last mouthful of his entree to take the plates away!. The we left before we could order desert/coffee because we couldn't get the attention of a wait person. Air conditioning was cold where we were seated and blowing down on us. This was a Tuesday - Embers is very popular with the locals. Definitely a favourite - but more wait staff please.
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Needs new menu(s)!. It's been here a while Embers, long enough to become a Hills' institution. It's original iteration was rubbish, but after coming under new ownership about five years ago it has been all plain sailing and a great night out. It is always packed - you have to book to get a table even on a Tuesday night and the locals clearly like it. As one of those locals I like it too - I have been numerous times and always come away happy. The service is always impeccable, the food is always good and they have a half decent booze list (always a plus). It isn't too expensive either. You won't get anything fancy at Embers - it is good, honest, wholesome food, served with a smile. A few of the dishes can be overly stodgy, but I've never had bad food there. The serves are invariably huge - don't bother with entrees if you want to be able to finish your mains and especially don't order bread unless you are really hungry, because they give you half a loaf. Long term faves for me are the Veal Saltimbocca, Chili Mussels, good old Spag Bol, or a simple steak cooked rare. They are good at cooking a bit of meat too and won't cock it up.
My only quibble is the menu(s). They haven't changed the menu (the food available in the restaurant), or the menus (the laminated list that tells you what that food is so you can order it) for years - I reckon since about 2011 at least. The physical menus are dog-eared, often sticky, stained and falling to bits - not a great advert for a great restaurant, and actually quite off-putting. The menu itself, despite the couple of specials they have on each night, holds no surprises. I'd love Embers to change it up a bit, get rid of a few dishes, add a few others, try some new things with the food they serve, and print it all up on some new bloody menus that I don't feel like I'm going to catch something off of.
Otherwise I love the place. Recommended.
Great food, great ambiance, great service, reasonable prices. Will be back soon.
When we first walked in, it took a little while to be served so at first I started to wonder how the experience was going to go! Once we were seated, the Embers staff recovered well! Our waitress did not bat an eyelid at some of our odd order requests and she was more than accommodating making sure that she had got it all right! The food, coffee and service were all highly rated by everyone in my group! Portion sizes are huge, tasty and some of our change requests from the standard menu options were all managed correctly and we were not charged the earth for additions or changes! I would definetly recommend a visit to Embers for anyone that is in the hills for brekky! We will be back, the dinner menu looks amazing!!
Our family favourite. My wife and I (and our families) have been going to Embers for as long as I can remember. We have never had a bad staff member, bad meal or bad experience. The food and the service always impresses. Hats off.
For breakfast, lunch, dinner, takeaway or wood fired pizza an absolute must and worth the travel (if you have to).
This is my favourite place for breakfast in the hills. Fantastic coffee and I love the pancakes.
Ahh-mazing! !. My boyfriend and I went to this restaurant early July and we were thoroughly impressed!!....The waitress was polite and helpful and our meals were lovely. it was hard to make a decision after seeing so many delicious looking meals coming out of the kitchen. Only downfall...The bacon on fillet mignon was not wrapped around entire steak. other than that I would definitely go back here : )
Delish. Great food, great service. My husband and I went to Embers for his birthday and ordered a few different things to share. Everything was lovely and we left VERY full. Will most definitely be coming back :)
Reputation Holds up. Been here a number of times for brekky (brilliant), but first time for tea last Saturday night and WOW, excellent! Won't say too much, but the service, service times and food were all great. We had a main of Tortellini and another main of saltimboca- both top class!
The atmosphere itself was cosy, great place for a wintery night
Cheers will definitely be back there for sure!
Mood Breaker.. Dined here on two occasions recently while on holidays in Perth.
Food and service faultless except on the second occasion two trolley loads of wine was wheeled through the dining room, by a delivery man.
Unforgivable.
Best steak I have ever had and amazing breakfasts. Highly recommended
TUESDAY TREAT!!. I almost didn't want to write how good this place for fear we wouldn't ever get a table, but it's obvious the secret is out! Waiters...excellent. Food...brilliant. Atmosphere...great. Dessert...the best!! Thanks Embers, we'll be back.
Top Quality - Great Menu. This place was buzzing when we tried it out and for good reason. The menu itself boasts impressive variety and leaves you struggling to decide while planning your next visit. Staff were clearly under pressure but operated like a well-oiled machine, attentive and efficient.
My wife and I started with the bruschetta (an important benchmark for italian) and it was great. Simple flavours and fresh ingredients made for an appealing appetizer. I ordered the Grancho pasta and my wife the special mussels. Both had kick and left you satisfied. Again the simple flavours and fresh ingredients shone through. We finished with the Cointreau choc mousse. Divine and a great cleanser after the chili goodness.
If you are going to drive out to the Perth hills - make sure you stop in here.
Service highlight.. Went to Embers for Lunch last Friday.
Service was great, as soon as we walked in we had friendly staff greet us so that's always a sweet plus.
Had the T-bone steak with creamy mushroom sauce - asked for medium but got well done.. not THAT big of a problem but something that should probably be taken into account next time. I didn't want to bother them and ask it to be re-done seeing as they were busy as it was, so I decided to just enjoy the steak instead.
Food still tasted amazing despite the small mishap.
The atmosphere here is great also - aside from having to forcefully yawn to pop my ears every 10-20 seconds, but hey, that's not their fault!
It's a nice place to come. I wish it was closer to where I live.
I'll definitely be back to try something else on the menu.
Love it!. We get take out from Embers quite often on weekends and are never disappointed! Although it's not the cheapest option, the servings are huge (always have leftovers) and always taste amazing. I often get the fish and chips which never dissapoints. Sometimes the food can take a while to be ready but that's expected on a Friday night. Would recommend.
I'm consistently impressed with this place and it's become my favourite Perth restaurant. When I sometimes consider setting up my own restaurant I think of the effort that these two sisters must put in to make such a great restaurant and I'm put off!! It isn't cheap but the value is there: whatever I've ordered has been excellent. Seafood, pork ribs, T bone, pasta. It knocks spots off Jaimie's!! Service is efficient - without any sense that they want us out. Can't think of any criticism....!
Fab Food and Service. Beautiful food, great menu. Staff are friendly and efficient. Only downside is the hard seating and the outside area could be spruced up. Still wouldnt put me off going again though.
Very homely and relaxed dinner atmosphere
Great atmosphere and homely food and will definitely go back. Only downside was the hard seating but otherwise great.
Went here at 5:30pm before a Perth Observatory tour. Absolutely lovely restaurant with great staff and excellent food. The gentleman who served us was very attentive and professional. The pizza absolutely delicious! And the chocolate mud cake at the end was HUGE! My partner and I could just finish it. Will be going back next time we have a night out in the Hills.
Amazing place! I have added a hand for size comparison. The meals are very large and tasty. The one downside I believe is the furniture and colour scheme, very dark and strange but I think it’s the sort of vibe they’re going for but would suggest a change to more cheerful colours.
They're good to dine out. Great pizzas and pastas. Took out one star coz the Las time I went there, dine-in wasn't available and there was no way for me to check if it was. Google said the place was open but there was no dine-in and no one picked at the front desk either. However, the place is good in itself:)
Amazing experience. The man that served us was funny and polite enough to tell us to not order such a large entree, as the main is filling. We noted that all the dishes we chose looked small, however were just right in filling us up.
5/5, can't wait to go back!
A definite must for casual dining in the hills. They offer a great range on the menu and both dishes we had came out perfect. The mains are very big but worth it to take some home at the end. Ordered another pasta to take away after tasting how good this one was.
We found the gem on Perth Hill. Thanks Google for making me found this place. There's variety of menu is amazing! I love the blue cheese in my chicken cordon bleu and slow cooked beef cheek to die for! Friendly staffs and amazing service
Loved it Very busy so allow time
Best pepper steak I have had in while
Great portion size
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