Start from 68 curated places around Perth, AU, then choose the recommendations that fit your guests.
Restaurants & cafés
Wildflower
Glass-walled rooftop fine diner inside the COMO Treasury, with tasting menus built around the six Noongar seasons and native ingredients — bunya nuts, wattleseed, marron, Rottnest scallops. Perth's most considered restaurant; book a month out.
Long Chim
David Thompson's basement Bangkok-street temple inside the State Buildings — pork-and-prawn pad see ew with proper wok hei, jungle curry with grilled chicken, and the chili-fish-sauce dressing that's printed on the t-shirts. Loud, packed, and the most consistent Thai in the country.
Trails & outdoors
Kings Park Law Walk
2.5km loop along the eastern escarpment of Kings Park — gravel and boardwalk descending below the cliff edge to a rollercoaster trail that stays in dappled bush the whole way. Best urban trail in WA, finishes back at the war memorial in an hour.
Lotterywest Federation Walkway
620m glass-sided arboreal walkway 16m above the Kings Park canopy — flat, accessible, free, and connecting the State War Memorial to the Botanic Garden via a treetop bridge. Best 20-minute walk a visitor with limited time can do.
Things to do
Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts (PICA)
WA's flagship contemporary art space in the 1896 brick former Boys School at the Cultural Centre — three galleries, three performance spaces, rotating exhibitions, and the annual Hatched graduate show in March. Free entry, programming pushes harder than any other gallery in town.
State Theatre Centre of Western Australia
Kerry Hill-designed performing arts complex in Northbridge — home to Black Swan State Theatre, Perth Theatre Company, and the Heath Ledger Theatre. The architectural drawcard alongside the program; the foyer alone is worth a wander.
Landmarks & sights
Kings Park and Botanic Garden
400 hectares of bushland and manicured garden on the Mount Eliza escarpment above the city — bigger than New York's Central Park, free to enter, and the locals' default for picnics, sunset photos, and the September wildflower bloom. The DNA Tower and the glass-floored Federation Walkway tree-canopy bridge are the two short detours every first-timer takes.
Fremantle Prison
WA's only UNESCO World Heritage site — a convict-built 1850s limestone gaol that held prisoners until 1991 and now runs day, tunnel, and torchlight tours through cell blocks the inmates rioted in. The tunnel tour drops you into the original water supply network with hard hats and a kayak section; it's the standout if you only do one.