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Flying Monkey's Shisha Lounge
First registered as a business name on 1 June 2019, the restaurant & shisha lounge officially opened after an extensive makeover of the previous Fast Eddy’s Restaurant they’d been running. Located on Walter Road Morley, Flying Monkey’s was a popular restaurant with a great menu, drinks, event venue and… just a place a lot of people wanted to hang out at.
Registered under the entity name of Platinum Nightlife Enterprises Pty Ltd, which was first registered on 01 April 2017, they held a number of other registered businesses names:
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Fast Eddy’s Shisha Lounge – registered 28 March 2018 to 16 September 2021
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Fast Eddy’s Morley – registered 17 October 2017 to 08 April 2021
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Big Lebanon – registered 03 October 2017 to 14 February 2019
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Big Lebanon Café – registered 03 October 2017 to 14 February 2019
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Big Lebanon Restaurant – registered 03 October 2017 to 14 February 2019
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Big Lebanon Shisha Lounge – registered 03 October 2017 to 14 February 2019.
The Flying Monkeys Restaurant & Shisha Lounge business name was cancelled on 24 November 2022.
The Fire
In the early hours of Wednesday 23 September 2020, an arsonist forced entry into the Morley shisha restaurant and set it on fire. It was all caught on CCTV footage.
A number of items were set on fire before the offender fled, causing an estimated $150,000 damage. This was later estimated at $1.75 million damage.
Five weeks later, Arson Squad detectives charged a 30-year old Middle Swan man with criminal damage by fire, as well as burglary and commit.
The former 38-year-old owner was later charged with one count of fraud. In August 2022, he was also charged with causing criminal damage by fire. By the time he appeared in court for his initial appearance in the same month, which was adjourned to November 2022, he was involved in another Morley shisha bar and restaurant called Up In Smoke at Coventry Village in Morley.
The last that can be found on the charges is an article about the upcoming trial date, sometime in the middle of 2023.
As of early March 2024, the former restaurant, turned occasional squat for the local homeless, is about to become demolished.
