The Brown Fox

Lovely food and friendly attentive service, would definitely recommend to stop here.
The dining area is seperate from the main hustle and bustle of the pub which was nice and quieter.

Lots of positives for this gastropub — interesting décor, spacious, fantastic service and generous servings of food. The chips from my meal were slightly on the cold side but were by no means inedible. The customer service was prompt and efficient. Would gladly return.

My co-​workies and I have had drinks here in the past and I have been meaning to try the food, even though I’d heard others saying the food wasn’t great.
The 3 of us headed in at noon and was surprised to see the place quite empty. Even during our entire meal, I would say the restaurant was only about half full.
We ordered some fries to start, 2 Smoked Duck Salads, 1 pasta dish and 2 ciders. One of the ciders arrived and then nothing else for close to 15 mins, not even the second cider. After waving down a waitress, we told her we were still waiting on the other cider so she apologized and brought it out fairly promptly. The food didn’t arrive until after about 20 minutes and I was expecting some amazing duck on my salad. Yeah… no.
The duck looked straight-​out-​of-​the-​packet-​from-​the-​fridge cold and was so dry. I forced myself to eat it because I wasn’t about to let duck go to waste but my co-​worker refused to eat it and just picked at the salad leaves. The salad dressing was pretty bland and for $ 15, I felt kinda sad.
The fries we asked for came out as «Chunky Chips» and were a bit over-​fried so they were extra extra crispy.
I think I’ll just stick to drinks in the future.

I have been wanting to try the Fox for ages as we recently moved to the area. We finally gave it a go on Monday night and were generally pleased despite some negative reviews online. Whilst it was very quiet (due to being a Monday I presume) and a bit chilly as the door was open, the place itself has a warmth about it. The staff were friendly and the food was tasty and generous portions too. My partner is a chef and he was quite happy with it also. Definitely coming back :)

I was impressed by The Brown Fox. We usually go to Amphoris but thought we’d try something different today. I wandered in and was met a little while later. The waitress was sweet and said she’d grab a couple of menus if we decided to order food too. I said I was waiting for my partner so she brought a bottle of water to the table.
I ordered at the bar, so not sure if there is table service. They didn’t have the cocktail I wanted as a glass, only in a jug… So I asked and she said it should be fine. After I had ordered and paid I was told they didn’t have any lychees and the bar tender said that cocktail wasn’t good anyway! He made me a variation of the lychee cocktail I wanted. The waitress came over to check it was ok, it was. I was impressed by the fab service for her to come check, this doesn’t happen often in Australia!
We also had fries with aioli and bbq popcorn chicken; both were good. The popcorn chicken was presented in a noodle box, looked cute. The chips and aioli was as it should be.
We will come back :)

Have been here a few times for work lunches and was not overly impressed the first one as the portion was too small and expensive, and as we had pre orders the food was on the table as we arrived and was a bit rushed. However we went back again for a more casual lunch and the portions were very decent and delicious! I had the special of Brazilian ribs which were very meaty and came with a bright green chimichurri sauce. Everyone else thou touchy enjoyed the good and would definitely come back following the latter experience. They have monteiths cider on tap too which was a plus for me.

I’ve come here quite a few times for after work drinks and the place is pretty decent. I miss the old set out though. They used to have beautiful big arm chairs and old suitcases as tables on the balcony, but now they have boring plain chairs and tables.
On Friday afternoon it gets really busy around lunch and service can be a bit slow. The squid and aioli and pizzetta with prosciutto, chargrilled vegetables & feta is super yummm! We ordered the chicken wings and fries as well but after 1 hour they never came out… so we got a refund
The prices aren’t too bad. The beers on tap are all Montieths but they have quite a few other options in Bottles. I would steer clear of the Cider though. It tastes like it was brewed in a shoe.

Nice place to meet after work in the West Perth/​CBD area (be prepared to pay for city priced drinks). Décor has a nice restoration feel to it and live music livens things up a bit. I wish I could review the food, but after waiting an hour for chicken wings and chips. I was told that there was no order in the kitchen for it, so they issued a refund for the order. I’m just not sure how you can take money for and order and then refund it when there was apparently no order at all.
But besides that they’re pretty good.

Always busy for a post work drink. Plays pretty decent music and they have a nice verandah as well as pavement seating for those warm summer afternoons.

Great place to get liquored up on a Friday, with several mates, after a long week of exams at university. Our initial intentions were just to relax and pour back a few (dozen) drinks, but we also decided we needed some food to absorb the alcohol, since most of us have not eaten since brekkie, long day taking exams and cramming the night before.
The Brown Fox is definitely one nice boozer, great atmosphere, incredibly nice, polite, and cool staff, with some amazingly tasty food, at least that’s how I remember it. I was slighty impaired, so it could’ve been different, but I’ll just stick to that.
We ordered off the a la carte menu, but we definitely ordered a little bit of everything, maybe a little bit too much. But when you haven’t eaten all day, and you’re rocking the proverbial beer goggles, everything looks good and you can never have too much food.
We had the cider battered fish, fish croquettes, open face steak sandwich, club sandwich, chorizo with their Lazy Dog Cider glaze, crispy pork belly, and potted duck. I know there was more, but I forgot. All the food was amazing and perfectly prepared, and the service was impeccable, so I was told by our server, she seemed honest and was smoking hot, so I’ll just go along with what she said. But seriously, I think, the food was definitely spot on, it tasted wicked good. Since I’m usually not that fussy or finicky when I’m starving and the only nutrition in my belly is beer, the food was therefore EPIC.
The overall experience at the Brown Fox was definitely on point. The staff was amazing, the orders came shooting out, the pitcher’s of beer always remained full, the food was delish, and the atmosphere was awesome. Overall a great time for 6 drunken blokes with massive migranes, not from all the beer, but from all the studying, and lack of sleep, but another week of exams over.

We came here for New Year’s Eve 2011 with our cousins who are locals. It was pretty expensive for the drink wristband and we ended up not even using up all of our drinks! The drinks weren’t great, but the people are super friendly. I really appreciated that they served hors d’oeuvres, which were yummy, and kept us from being starving at the end of a long night of partying!
Being from the US, we have nothing to compare this experience with, but we had a lot of fun! It wasn’t so crowded that you couldn’t dance. The music was mostly Top 40 from the US; my cousin and I got super excited when Katy Perry’s California Girls came on: D They had a Moulin Rouge theme so they had a few short acts, like a singer and a hula hooper, which were fun to watch.

This review will be biased because I was a huge fan of the establishment that occupied this space prior to Brown Fox (Onyx). It held a lot of sentimental value in my eyes, and after avoiding this area of the city for years, I was invited to the Brown Fox to catch up with some wonderful friends I hadn’t seen for far too long. They were the only enticing part of the whole night. Low and behold, I was right to be sceptical. Arriving at around midnight, I found the Brown Fox completely empty and with all the lights turned on making it look more like a random hall than a bar/​club type thing.
I went to my group of friends, had a quick taste of the drink they had ordered for me, and requested we go elsewhere. We ended up buying turkish bread and dip, and heading to a friend’s house for a early morning feast. That was the highlight of the night. Nuf’ said…