Restaurant Amusé to Close in March

Restaurant Amusé, one of the most celebrated restaurants in Perth dining history, will shut after its final service on Saturday March 4.

Owners Hadleigh and Carolynne Troy – chef and restaurant manager respectively – said the end of the restaurant's lease combined with the recent arrival of the couple's first child convinced them it was time for a change.

Although the Troys are bringing down the curtain on their award-winning diner, they have already begun planning for life after Amusé. While mum's the word on specifics, Hadleigh says their next opening will be a little more family-friendly, both in terms of dining style and work hours for he and Carolynne.

“I’d like the next thing we do to be a little cruisier so we can spend more time at home,” he says. “Something where we’re packing up and going home at 9pm at night instead of one in the morning. I think we’ve done enough 14 hours day.”

He also hinted that bread would play a key role in their next venture: extremely encouraging news for the many (many) fans of the restaurant's addictive, benchmark-worthy bread and whipped butter.

Restaurant Amusé (64 Bronte Street, East Perth) is open from 6:30pm Tuesday to Saturday for dinner. The restaurant is fully booked till Saturday March 4 but wait list requests can be made online.