Greenhouse (restaurant)

Greenhouse was a bar/restaurant at 100 St Georges Terrace in Perth, Western Australia. Designed by Dutch-born florist, artist, builder and environmentalist Joost Bakker, and opened in 2009,[1][2] it is a "quirky, eco-friendly restaurant" concept,[3] which has been described as "... a breath of fresh air and a brilliant example of innovation in the restaurant sector."[4] The head chef at Greenhouse was Matt Stone.[5]

Greenhouse
Greenhouse Perth logo
Restaurant information
Established2009 (2009)
Closed2017
Head chefMatt Stone
Food typeModern Australian
Street address100 St Georges Terrace
CityPerth
StateWestern Australia
Postal/ZIP Code6000
CountryAustralia
Coordinates31°57′17″S 115°51′27″E

As a concept, Greenhouse had a mission to improve vastly on the ways restaurants are created, to have better design, better operation, and to be "completely waste free from the ground up".[1] Amongst other things, Greenhouse "... has its vegetable garden on the roof, grinds its own organic flour, has walls made of hay bales and boasts a zero-carbon footprint."[4]

Both Stone and the restaurant have won a number of awards. In 2010, Stone was named Best New Talent at the national Gourmet Traveller Awards;[6] then was awarded Young Chef of the Year by The West Australian Good Food Guide in 2011[4] and 2012.[7] The restaurant was given a one star rating, and the award for Best New Restaurant of the Year, by The West Australian Good Food Guide 2011,[7] and retained its one star rating for 2012[7] and 2013,[8] but lost that rating for 2014.[9]

The Greenhouse concept has also appeared, in temporary, "pop-up" restaurant form, at Federation Square in Melbourne in 2008–09,[1][2] at Sydney Harbour in 2011,[1][5] and at the Melbourne Food and Wine Festival in 2012.[1][2][10] Greenhouse also featured in an episode of MasterChef Australia series 5 in 2013.[11][12]

The restaurant was sold to Red Rock Leisure in partnership with chef Chris Taylor around 2012.[13]

The restaurant closed in May 2017. Managing partners of the venue claimed decreased revenue and high operation costs as contributing factors.[13]

See also

References
  1. Pitt, Beatrice (March 2012). "Joost's Greenhouse at the Melbourne Food and Wine Festival". Design100 website. Design100. Retrieved 11 August 2013.
  2. "Greenhouse by Joost in Melbourne". ArchitectureAU. Architecture Media Pty Ltd. Retrieved 11 August 2013.
  3. McKenna, Steve (13 November 2010). "24 hours in Perth". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 10 August 2013.
  4. Millimaci, Grace (21 September 2010). "Kudos for dining excellence in WA". The West Australian. Retrieved 10 August 2013.
  5. Richards, Holly (25 March 2011). "Food success set in stone". The West Australian. Retrieved 10 August 2013.
  6. Broadfield, Rob; McPhee, Lindsay (24 August 2010). "Chef wins national recognition". The West Australian. Retrieved 10 August 2013.
  7. "Greenhouse: Mietta's Review". Mietta. Mietta's. Retrieved 10 August 2013.
  8. Broadfield, Rob, ed. (2012). The West Australian Good Food Guide 2013. Osborne Park, WA: West Australian Publishers. p. 59. ISBN 9780987171948.
  9. Broadfield, Rob, ed. (2013). The West Australian Good Food Guide 2014. Osborne Park, WA: West Australian Publishers. p. 47. ISBN 9780987171986.
  10. Broadfield, Rob (11 March 2012). "Master chefs in the Greenhouse". The West Australian. Retrieved 10 August 2013.
  11. "MasterChef comes alive at Greenhouse in the Perth CBD". Perth Now. News Ltd. 17 April 2013. Retrieved 10 August 2013.
  12. Hardie, Giles (4 July 2013). "Recap: MasterChef and the attack of the killer carrots". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 10 August 2013.
  13. Shield, Helen (4 May 2017). "Greenhouse restaurant closes its doors". The West Australian. Archived from the original on 1 January 2020. Retrieved 19 August 2018.
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