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The Age
4 days ago
- General
- The Age
Why this family-friendly eatery is one of WA's most important food stories
Come for the kids' playground, petting zoo and open spaces; stay for brunch hits cooked with care and pristine estate-grown produce. Previous SlideNext Slide 14/20How we score If it looks like a cafe, sounds like a cafe and sells banana bread and house-made granola like a cafe, then it's probably a – do I really need to write it? In many ways, Cubby Cafe fits the description for your garden-variety, neighbourhood coffee and brunch destination. Which is exactly why it has the potential to become one of Perth's most important hospitality operations. Young mothers in athleisure are a common sight, babies in arms, their half-finished alt-milk lattes slowly cooling nearby. Mary Street Bakery doughnuts wait by the till for the weak of will and harried of parent. The playlist includes Leon Bridges, Sault and other bubbly, late-morning favourites. It's only when you zoom out that you'll start to see the bigger picture. Cubby Cafe is part of 11 Acre Farm: an ambitious mixed-use property in semi-rural Forrestdale that's been established according to the principles of permaculture: a holistic, environmentally minded philosophy developed in Australia during the late '70s. Writing in his authoritative permaculture guidebook Retrosuburbia, the movement's co-originator David Holmgren describes permaculture as 'a design system for resilient land use based on universal ethics and ecological design principles'. For Stephen and Joyce Erceg, daughter Erin Erceg, and Erin's husband Rowan Keilar – the core team behind 11 Acre Farm – permaculture thinking involved buying a former equestrian centre in August 2019 and using clay, compost and manure from other farms to turn lifeless soil into fertile garden beds; rehoming unwanted fruit trees and farm animals for said gardens and a petting zoo respectively; plus scouring Facebook Marketplace for building materials and cubby houses – hence the cafe's name! – to build Cubby Lane: a toddler-sized play-village that boasts its own fire station, theatre and disco. While it's clear that permaculture treasures the trash of others, equally important is making the most of what's at hand. In this instance, that meant converting an existing home into a farm-based childcare centre, plus rebooting the former hay shed into a folksy, largely al fresco cafe where heat lamps and throw blankets help keep guests warm. Sadly, planning issues with the City of Armadale have left the childcare centre in limbo, but the cafe was able to open in September. Team Erceg-Keilar, it would seem, have plenty of can-do spirit. 'It's one giant experiment,' jokes Erin about her family's decision to start the farm and scale up their own permaculture efforts. 'We don't have a background in farming or hospitality, but what the farm has done is attract amazing people that are interested in what we're doing and have the knowledge and experience to bring everything together.' These collaborators include the cafe's industrious, seemingly omniscient manager Kelly Pitman who does everything from take photos for the QR code menus, to mix zippy whisky highballs: one of many sharply priced options on the unexpectedly contemporary booze menu. Bonus green stars, too, for serving drinks with metal straws. Cheery barista Krittika 'Blue' Nunthasrirat is your go-to for beverages that aren't so potent, while former Millbrook Winery gardener Mitchell Seward tends to all the plants and trees on the property. While the gardens, for now, aren't productive enough to supply all the cafe's fruit and veg, Indonesian-born head chef Fendi Bong makes the most of his opportunities to showcase ingredients from the farm. The foraged harvest bowl made with sweet potato and fermented brown rice, for instance, is a chance for our man to cook whatever Seward has picked for him in sensitive, thoughtful ways. Maybe he'll char vast parasols of silverbeet before serving them at room temperature slicked with confit garlic oil. Or maybe chunks of pumpkin will get a light roasting to accentuate the versatile squash's latent richness. Gentle grillwork accentuates the verdant sweetness of just-picked runner beans. Weekly soups offer further opportunities to connect eaters to what's been happening on the farm. A warming roast fennel and butter bean soup strewn with gauzy nasturtium petals and torn herb leaves combines the abundance of now – the sweetness and grassiness of the fennel! – with the frugality of then (the beans were picked last winter and dried). Add sourdough toasts golden with melted cheese and kiss those cold weather blues goodbye. Often, the homegrown element might be a sauce or preserve. The sharp romesco sauce served with golden tiles of fried polenta cake hums with the zip of fermented ancho chillies. Waxy skin-on chips seasoned with a dried herb salt taste terrific as is, but only a fool would say no to the accompanying condiments of thick garlicky aioli and a tangy barbecue sauce. While Bong knows flavour, he also understands the assignment and realities of running a 100-seater attached to family-friendly attractions. But even for those visiting largely, so the kids can coo at dwarf Norwegian goats, cool flourishes like crowning spiced apple muffins with pistachio praline inject some special into an everyday luxury. (I'm not sure how many muffins Bong baked while working at Icebergs in Sydney or Charlie's in Darwin, but he's good at it.) Farm-to-table dining isn't new, yet it's often pitched and, understandably, priced as a special occasion meal. Cafe Cubby, however, serves carefully grown, seasonal ingredients in an accessible format that should be familiar to anyone that's ever gone out for coffee in the last three decades. (The cafe also hosts seasonal dinners, classes and workshops.) As Erin said, this is an experiment that needs amazing people to make it work. Do I really need to tell you who the amazing people are?
Sydney Morning Herald
4 days ago
- General
- Sydney Morning Herald
Why this family-friendly eatery is one of WA's most important food stories
Come for the kids' playground, petting zoo and open spaces; stay for brunch hits cooked with care and pristine estate-grown produce. Previous SlideNext Slide 14/20How we score If it looks like a cafe, sounds like a cafe and sells banana bread and house-made granola like a cafe, then it's probably a – do I really need to write it? In many ways, Cubby Cafe fits the description for your garden-variety, neighbourhood coffee and brunch destination. Which is exactly why it has the potential to become one of Perth's most important hospitality operations. Young mothers in athleisure are a common sight, babies in arms, their half-finished alt-milk lattes slowly cooling nearby. Mary Street Bakery doughnuts wait by the till for the weak of will and harried of parent. The playlist includes Leon Bridges, Sault and other bubbly, late-morning favourites. It's only when you zoom out that you'll start to see the bigger picture. Cubby Cafe is part of 11 Acre Farm: an ambitious mixed-use property in semi-rural Forrestdale that's been established according to the principles of permaculture: a holistic, environmentally minded philosophy developed in Australia during the late '70s. Writing in his authoritative permaculture guidebook Retrosuburbia, the movement's co-originator David Holmgren describes permaculture as 'a design system for resilient land use based on universal ethics and ecological design principles'. For Stephen and Joyce Erceg, daughter Erin Erceg, and Erin's husband Rowan Keilar – the core team behind 11 Acre Farm – permaculture thinking involved buying a former equestrian centre in August 2019 and using clay, compost and manure from other farms to turn lifeless soil into fertile garden beds; rehoming unwanted fruit trees and farm animals for said gardens and a petting zoo respectively; plus scouring Facebook Marketplace for building materials and cubby houses – hence the cafe's name! – to build Cubby Lane: a toddler-sized play-village that boasts its own fire station, theatre and disco. While it's clear that permaculture treasures the trash of others, equally important is making the most of what's at hand. In this instance, that meant converting an existing home into a farm-based childcare centre, plus rebooting the former hay shed into a folksy, largely al fresco cafe where heat lamps and throw blankets help keep guests warm. Sadly, planning issues with the City of Armadale have left the childcare centre in limbo, but the cafe was able to open in September. Team Erceg-Keilar, it would seem, have plenty of can-do spirit. 'It's one giant experiment,' jokes Erin about her family's decision to start the farm and scale up their own permaculture efforts. 'We don't have a background in farming or hospitality, but what the farm has done is attract amazing people that are interested in what we're doing and have the knowledge and experience to bring everything together.' These collaborators include the cafe's industrious, seemingly omniscient manager Kelly Pitman who does everything from take photos for the QR code menus, to mix zippy whisky highballs: one of many sharply priced options on the unexpectedly contemporary booze menu. Bonus green stars, too, for serving drinks with metal straws. Cheery barista Krittika 'Blue' Nunthasrirat is your go-to for beverages that aren't so potent, while former Millbrook Winery gardener Mitchell Seward tends to all the plants and trees on the property. While the gardens, for now, aren't productive enough to supply all the cafe's fruit and veg, Indonesian-born head chef Fendi Bong makes the most of his opportunities to showcase ingredients from the farm. The foraged harvest bowl made with sweet potato and fermented brown rice, for instance, is a chance for our man to cook whatever Seward has picked for him in sensitive, thoughtful ways. Maybe he'll char vast parasols of silverbeet before serving them at room temperature slicked with confit garlic oil. Or maybe chunks of pumpkin will get a light roasting to accentuate the versatile squash's latent richness. Gentle grillwork accentuates the verdant sweetness of just-picked runner beans. Weekly soups offer further opportunities to connect eaters to what's been happening on the farm. A warming roast fennel and butter bean soup strewn with gauzy nasturtium petals and torn herb leaves combines the abundance of now – the sweetness and grassiness of the fennel! – with the frugality of then (the beans were picked last winter and dried). Add sourdough toasts golden with melted cheese and kiss those cold weather blues goodbye. Often, the homegrown element might be a sauce or preserve. The sharp romesco sauce served with golden tiles of fried polenta cake hums with the zip of fermented ancho chillies. Waxy skin-on chips seasoned with a dried herb salt taste terrific as is, but only a fool would say no to the accompanying condiments of thick garlicky aioli and a tangy barbecue sauce. While Bong knows flavour, he also understands the assignment and realities of running a 100-seater attached to family-friendly attractions. But even for those visiting largely, so the kids can coo at dwarf Norwegian goats, cool flourishes like crowning spiced apple muffins with pistachio praline inject some special into an everyday luxury. (I'm not sure how many muffins Bong baked while working at Icebergs in Sydney or Charlie's in Darwin, but he's good at it.) Farm-to-table dining isn't new, yet it's often pitched and, understandably, priced as a special occasion meal. Cafe Cubby, however, serves carefully grown, seasonal ingredients in an accessible format that should be familiar to anyone that's ever gone out for coffee in the last three decades. (The cafe also hosts seasonal dinners, classes and workshops.) As Erin said, this is an experiment that needs amazing people to make it work. Do I really need to tell you who the amazing people are?
Time Out
15-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Time Out
Here's the full lineup for the 2025 Forest Hills Stadium concert series
It was touch and go there for a second whether NYC concertgoers would get yet another season of outdoor shows at Forest Hills Stadium in Queens, but once the bureaucracy of it all calmed down, we were happily left with the return of one of New York's best al fresco concert venues as well as a killer lineup of musical acts for the season. Taking the tennis court-turned-main stage this summer and fall are big-name acts like Mumford & Sons, Alabama Shakes, Phish, The Black Keys, Pulp and Leon Bridges, among others. The stadium will also play home to the returning All Things Go Music Festival from September 26 through 28, with high-profile performers like DOECHII, Lucy Dacus, Rachel Chinouriri, Djo and Lola Young on the docket. First built in 1923 as the home of the U.S. Open tennis tournament, Forest Hills stadium started hosting concerts back in the 1960s, welcoming some of music's most iconic figures, from Bob Dylan to Frank Sinatra to Barbra Streisand, to name a few. And this year's performers will no doubt continue that illustrious history. Below, find the full schedule for the 2025 performances at Forest Hills Stadium: Saturday, May 31: Bloc Party Saturday, June 21: Dr. Dog Tuesday, July 22: Phish Wednesday, July 23: Phish Friday, August 1: King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard with the Orchestra of St. Luke's Saturday, August 2: King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard with the Orchestra of St. Luke's Friday, August 8: Mumford & Sons with Lucius Saturday, August 9: Mumford & Sons with Lucius Wednesday, August 13: The Black Keys with Gary Clark Jr. Thursday, September 4: Leon Bridges with Charley Crockett, Reyna Tropical and Honky Tonkin' in Queens Friday, September 5: Above & Beyond Thursday, September 11: Pulp Wednesday, September 17: Alabama Shakes with El Michels Affair Friday, September 26: All Things Go Music Festival (Lucy Dacus, Djo, Gigi Perez, Rachel Chinouriri, Maude Latour, The Aces, Sarah Kinsley and Goldie Boutilier) Saturday, September 27: All Things Go Music Festival (DOECHII, Remi Wolf, Lola Young, Griff, Peach PRC, MICHELLE and Alemeda) Sunday, September 28: All Things Go Music Festival (Clairo, The Marias, The Last Dinner Party, Paris Paloma, G Flip, Joy Oladokun and hey, nothing) Monday, September 29: Tyler Childers Tuesday, September 30: Tyler Childers Friday, October 24: Parcels Saturday, October 25: Big Thief
Vancouver Sun
14-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Vancouver Sun
Live Nation just announced $30 summer concert tickets: Here's what you should know
Reviews and recommendations are unbiased and products are independently selected. Postmedia may earn an affiliate commission from purchases made through links on this page. High ticket prices can be the main factor that keeps you from seeing your favourite band. Entertainment company Live Nation is hoping to counter budget-busting ticket fees this summer with a $30 ticket deal on select concerts across Canada and the U.S. Here are a few things to know about the $30 Ticket to Summer initiative. Get top headlines and gossip from the world of celebrity and entertainment. By signing up you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc. A welcome email is on its way. If you don't see it, please check your junk folder. The next issue of Sun Spots will soon be in your inbox. Please try again Interested in more newsletters? Browse here. Ticket to Summer is a promotion from the American multinational entertainment company to give fans the opportunity to purchase tickets to more than 1,000 shows at select venues across the country for only $30. The specially priced tickets go on sale May 21 at 10 a.m. local time through the link . The promotional price includes all fees up front. Promotional tickets are available while inventory lasts, according to Live Nation. Not all artists, dates and venues are included in the summer ticket promotion. The press release for the program teased a variety of artists spanning most music genres included in the mix such as Darius Rucker, Leon Bridges, James Taylor, Kesha, Little Big Town, Cyndi Lauper, The Doobie Brothers, and more. Meanwhile, the ticket website also added additional headlining names to the list such as Avril Lavigne, Luke Bryan, Billy Idol, The Offspring, and Pantera. But, the entertainment giant didn't provide exact info on the full range of artists and dates that will offer the $30 ticket deal just yet. When asked to clarify, Live Nation said that fans can filter their search on the Live Nation website on and after the May 21 kickoff date in order to see concerts in their area that are included in the offer. Filters can be applied by events, venues or artists to help narrow down the search. F ans can also set the location of their search to the closest city and the site will further filter the results to only include participating shows that are nearby. According to Live Nation, more tickets, artists and dates will be added throughout the summer. To learn more, visit
