Canapés
from $38Eight pieces off the oven and the grill over an hour and a half, standing. Best in the back room or when the whole floor is yours.
One oven, a short menu that changes every week, and a back room that seats sixteen with no hire fee.
Open Wed – Sun·48 seats + a 16-seat back room·Mount Hawthorn since 2016
Thirty people, two courses, the beverage package — $3,210. Price yours before you send anything.
$3,210 30 guests · $107 a head
Booked Still free Standing Wood oven, top left
The dining room — 30 of forty-eight seats, 8 tables. The back room stays open for walk-ins.
The room
Forty-eight seats out the front around twelve tables, and sixteen more down the back behind a door that actually shuts. It is a small restaurant run by people who are in it.
One wood oven and a grill. No second kitchen to hide behind, which is why the menu is short and why it moves.
Sixteen seats, its own door, its own speaker. No hire fee and no minimum spend Wednesday or Thursday — you just book it.
The figure on this page is the figure on the run sheet. Dietaries, a cake, a candle on it — none of that moves the per-head.
One of us runs your night from the enquiry to the last plate, with a mobile number, not a booking inbox that answers on Tuesday.
What people say
“The lamb shoulder came out on a Thursday and the four of us stopped talking for about ten minutes. Walked home. Booked again from the footpath.”
Rhiannon, LeedervilleThursday in June“Dad's 70th in the back room — sixteen of us, the banquet, the door shut. The bill was the number the website gave me three weeks earlier, to the dollar.”
Peter, MenoraSaturday in March“Wednesday, two of us at the bar without a booking, marrow on toast and a glass of nero. Out in forty minutes and it made the week.”
Jess, Mount HawthornWednesday in AugustThese are written examples, not collected reviews. Marrowbone is a demonstration build — see the note at the foot of the page. On a real venue this block would be fed live from Google reviews, and only then would it be marked up as review data.
Where we are
We are a neighbourhood restaurant and we behave like one. Most of the room walks in from within about a kilometre; the rest park on the side streets and stay for a second glass because they can.
Parking. Two hours free on the side streets after 5pm, and the shopping-centre car park two doors down is open until late. Nobody needs to move the car mid-main.
A stylised sketch of the neighbourhood for orientation — street positions are drawn for legibility, not to survey scale.
Before you ring
If yours isn't here, ring — the phone is answered by someone who is standing in the room.
Book
A table for two or a room for forty — same form. If it is for this week, ring instead: (08) 9000 0444, Wednesday to Sunday from 3pm.
What happens next. One of us reads it the same night, checks the book, and calls you back before service the following evening. Nothing is confirmed until we have spoken — we would rather ring than send you an automated yes.
Bringing the estimate with you. Use the button on the estimate at the top of the page and the guest count, the menu and the drinks come down here already filled in.
We'd call you back before service tomorrow evening on the number you left, and hold the date on the book in pencil until we've spoken.
Demonstration note: Marrowbone is a fictional restaurant and this form does not send anything anywhere. Nothing left the browser. On a real venue this would land in the booking system and in the manager's phone inside a second.
Want one pointed at your customers — your menu, your room, your booking system, your numbers? We build pages that answer the two questions a hospitality customer actually has, and then get out of the way.