PROFILED BY DE GROOTS MEDIAWalking into Sayer’s is like walking into your best mate’s lounge room. Decorated with groovy wallpaper, comfy seating and a central “dining table”, the emphasis here is on ease and cosiness. A wide range of clientele from locals to groovy thirty-somethings, are already claiming this new addition to Leederville as their own for all things delicious. As you may expect, the coffee is divine and the food is something else.
Owners Mark and Stephanie Sayer are adamant about making everything from scratch and it shows. The food has a slight Middle Eastern influence but the real emphasis is on quality, seasonal produce. Mark even goes so far as to purchase his produce directly from the farmer himself. So when you order the grilled vegetables with basil tapenade or Dorper lamb and blue cheese sausages, you know they have been made with love and contain no additives. National magazines are already hot on the heels of Sayer’s, with Mark even gracing the cover of a local foodie mag. As Mark said, “Melbourne always seems to get these sorts of places right, and I wanted to give Perth a little taste of that.” Cheeky as it may seem, I think Melbourne could take a leaf out of Mark’s book with this little gold mine.
Karen Bilsby-Butler, September 2007
