Hip & cafés
Victoria Park & Bentley
Perth's best eating strip
- From the CBD
- 5.7 km
- Area
- 20 km²
- Rent
- Mid rent
- Suburbs
- 7
Albany Highway in Victoria Park is an unbroken run of restaurants: Vietnamese, Indian, Japanese, Brazilian, African, all within a few blocks and at neighbourhood prices. Bentley next door has Curtin's main campus, which fills the area with students and share housing.
Good for
- Eating well for little
- Curtin students
- Staying close to the city without city prices
Watch out
Albany Highway is busy and loud; look for a place on the back streets.
Getting around
The Armadale/Thornlie line (Victoria Park, Carlisle) and direct buses to the city.
Suburbs
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Other areas
Industrial belt Where the labouring jobs are South Perth & Como The skyline postcard Subiaco & Shenton Park Polished, leafy and one train from town Mount Lawley, Highgate & Inglewood Beaufort Street, end to end Leederville & Mount Hawthorn Indie cinema, vintage shops and craft beer Wembley, Floreat & City Beach Big house, backyard, beach in 10 minutes
These are impressions, not statistics: one person, a few months, a city of two million. Suburbs change street by street — use this to know what to go and look at, then go and look.