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Chianti's on Colins

Chianti on Colin's self-proclaimed themselves to be one of Perth's longest established Italian fine dining restaurants.

The business name 'Chianti on Colin's' was registered on 26 April 1991 and although it has a 'cancelled' status on the ASIC Connect website, the trading name shows that it was registered from 01 October 2001 and is still current on the Australian Business Register with a current ABN registered under trading activities.

Interestingly, they were named on the Horse Meat Watch as having horse meat on the menu.

The property was built in 1900 on a 652 m² block and has been sold four times:

March 2019 - $2,180,000
August 2014 - $2,350,000
September 2003 - $1,400,000
February 1991 - $510,000

By 2014, the restaurant had closed after some five years. It’s difficult to find any positive comments for the restaurant that promoted themselves with keywords such as “fine dining” and one of the best and longest established Italian restaurants in Perth.

In May of the same year and sometime after the restaurant had become vacant, a fire was set in the building causing an approximate $700,000 worth of damage.

In December 2015, the City of Perth approved demolition of this site for the purposes of constructing a two level restaurant. Neither the demolition nor the redevelopment went ahead.

The building was finally demolished in October 2021, after years of housing a number of homeless drug users.

Today, it is the Éclat Apartments.

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Flying Monkeys 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:

Fast Eddy’s Shisha Lounge – registered 28 March 2018 to 16 September 2021
Fast Eddy’s Morley – registered 17 October 2017 to 08 April 2021
Big Lebanon – registered 03 October 2017 to 14 February 2019
Big Lebanon Café – registered 03 October 2017 to 14 February 2019
Big Lebanon Restaurant – registered 03 October 2017 to 14 February 2019
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.

September 2021

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.

December 2021