Restoring a local meeting place to its former glory.
Overlooking Coogee Beach, the Coogee Common restoration project has revived the heritage buildings and surrounds of the old Coogee Hotel.
StatusCompleted 2020
LocationCoogee
PartnersFremantle Woodfired Bakery
Overview
3,500m2
of productive kitchen gardens on site
200
person restaurant
1894
original construction, heritage refurbishment
Project Background
Built in 1894, the original Coogee Hotel was colloquially named the ‘Four Mile Well', a meeting place for local market gardeners along with quarry and shipping workers, four miles from Fremantle.
Vacant since the 1970s, the site has now been brought back to life as Coogee Common.
In the two years leading up to its opening as the transformed Coogee Common, the property was rehabilitated and restored, the gardens cultivated, and the character of this landmark preserved for generations to come.
Housed in a carefully restored heritage building, the 200-person Coogee Common venue adopts a thoughtful ‘farm-to-table’ approach to dining.
A showcase of Western Australia’s best local ingredients and producers, the venue features olive trees from Gingin, fig trees from Scarborough and Shiraz vines from Margaret River. An extensive, closed loop on-site kitchen garden produces seasonal fruit and vegetables, herbs and local honey and allows the thoughtful, seasonal menu to shine.
