Flamingo Freo

06/03/2024

15/12/2023

🌴🍹🦩 Calling all cocktail lovers and flamingo enthusiasts! 🌸🌞

Let’s raise our glasses and celebrate the perfect blend of tropical vibes, delicious drinks, and our fabulous flamingo friends! 🍹🦩✨

28/11/2023

Looking for unique world flavour musical magicians to play an easy 2 hour set Saturday afternoons at FOMO FREO

A well paid gig, promoted on the FOMO socials and I will personally will feed you, love and promote you at Flamingo Freo.

This gig is organised by FOMO management but contact me and I’ll put you in touch with them.

Also any local buskers are welcome to play in front of our kitchen and bar my anytime you like with a heads up - while we are open (Thursday to Sunday) as long as the ambience is good and not death metal or trap music 😆😈

I know a lot of you amazing musicians but don’t have time to message you all personally so get in touch and let’s bring the vibe to our tribe!

Also this Thursday our girl Monique Shirley who did a killer set playing her unique traditional Indigenous sounds last Thurs is on again this Thursday night at 6pm for Music and MOMO’s at FLAMINGO FREO - FOMO.

Any buskers welcome too, you’ll also be fed and shouted out - bring your hat and I’ll encourage people to support you with a donation.

Much love ###

on the Kora

28/11/2023

Looking for unique world flavour musical magicians to play an easy 2 hour set Saturday afternoons at FOMO FREO

A well paid gig, promoted on the FOMO socials and I will personally will feed you, love and promote you at Flamingo Freo.

This gig is organised by FOMO management but contact me and I’ll put you in touch with them.

Also any local buskers are welcome to play in front of our kitchen and bar my anytime you like with a heads up - while we are open (Thursday to Sunday) as long as the ambience is good and not death metal or trap music 😆😈

I know a lot of you amazing musicians but don’t have time to message you all personally so get in touch and let’s bring the vibe to our tribe!

Also this Thursday our girl Monique Shirley who did a killer set playing her unique traditional Indigenous sounds last Thurs is on again this Thursday night at 6pm for Music and MOMO’s at FLAMINGO FREO - FOMO.

Any buskers welcome too, you’ll also be fed and shouted out - bring your hat and I’ll encourage people to support you with a donation.

Much love ###

25/11/2023

Ok it’s probably a bit obvious that I may have a slight crush on this guy… I mean seriously look at him and those dimples, how super cute is he!?!

But I ain’t no hubby thief…

Tyler is basically FOMO FREO’s main man with some corporatey title - and a lovely human. I remember when I did the month pop up and was asked to have a meeting in the FOMO boardroom with all of the management to negotiate a longer lease option, I emailed Tyler personally, asked him to meet in a cafe and talk human to human rather than stumbling my heartfelt words about Freo and the way I see and love it. The lease was my 2nd priority.

He agreed and met me at the gorgeous African Art Cafe where I got to sit face to face with him and share my vision of how we can improve Freo and bring the magic back, I crapped on about having a Mardis Gras St festival and that Fomo, being the centre of Freo, should host it.

And in his sparkly eyes I saw he was on the same page and nodded in agreeance, mildly amused aswell I could tell - by all my extraness - and gave me his support. Then we talked lease and wandered off back to our very different worlds!

For that reason I have nothing but respect and gratitude to Tyler, who gifted me his time instead of me rambling nervously in an office infront of adulty adults 😆 (who are all legends too as it turns out!)

Tyler is also an amazing family guy who does wild dangerous things like jumping off enormous cliffs and out of planes with his kids, lucky kids! (yes I may have stalked his socials)

And no I’m not cracking on…

Thanks Tyler and Team FOMO! Us crazy Flamingos are loving The FOMO life 🙏🙏

25/11/2023

Everything is great!

I can’t believe how many people love Flamingos as much as me!!! And I’ve almost convinced management to let me paint up all the outdoor furniture heheh 🦩🦩🦩🦩 well almost…

Tonight the amazing bar tribe led by Gaio Santos are getting their sexy on at Pride in the city later and are inviting all their Flamboyant, Frivolous, Fun Loving LBGTQI Flamingos in to
FOMO FREO for recovery Mocktails and Moroccan Tajine - from 1pm

Come see the Festive Fiesta that is us, now, always - sooo much magic in the air! 🦩🦩

22/11/2023

Momo’s special and music with tomorrow Thursday from 5pm 🦩🦩🎶🎶

18/11/2023

https://heraldonlinejournal.com/2023/11/17/classic-freo-3/

A GROUP of flamingos is known as a flamboyance, so it seemed entirely appropriate to be surrounded by them in the latest offering from Freo’s most dazzling restaurateur, Freya Cheffers. Ms Cheffers…

04/11/2023

Open for lunch and dinner! Come down for a Moroccan feast and good time at flamingo freo!

24/10/2023

Since I got back from Nepal I’ve had to have a good hard look at my life and all the chaos and overwhelm I’d created in the several months before I ran away to dance with Hare Krishna’s and harvest rice with a traditional Nerwali Farming community, very unplanned.

I came home to a clothes shop I had set up in my home taking over almost half the space, and 2 kitchen breakdowns cluttering up mountains of space in my main outdoor entertaining area that I couldn’t escape no matter how hard I tried.

Every time I opened the gate to squeeze past and feed my hens, I almost had an internal meltdown trying to ignore the sadly neglected spa that used to bring so much joy but was awash with dirt and grime.

It’s been a challenge, but I looked hard at my situation. I asked myself ‘why Frey? What the hell is all this for?’ And suddenly I started letting go of things that don’t serve me.

I also manifested what needed to happen next - gaging the amount of catering enquiries coming through on a daily basis.

‘If I get myself a commercial kitchen again I’ll be sweet! I can declutter and cook without stress!’

I loaded up my friends van with most of the clothes and dropped them down to the beautiful ladies who hit me up to share their space while I was away - the heArt studio - 6 Market St Freo - these girls are sisters from other misters and I am eternally grateful for their never ending patience and kindness with me.

They took my sorely neglected Featherhorn The Label into their shop and gave it an amazing display area in the front window and they’ve been nothing but patient and kind while I have flurried around getting s**t done and being heavily inconsistent with them. Sorry girls and massive gratitude to you both, you have no idea how much your support means to me ❤️🙏❤️ anyone in Freo go check out their beautiful colab space that has an incredible energy. It used to be the Didgeridoo shop for years, and also the Alchemist. There is a magic energy in there!

Back to the lead up of now….

I searched around and negotiated with several landlords for a commercial kitchen space, all the while I couldn’t get FOMO FREO out of my mind.

1. They were so good to me and put up with my spontaneous ideas and uncertainties

2. They were very flexible and open minded to my madcap ideas

3. they offered me a crazy generous deal after my month pop up.

Why didn’t I take their offer?

2 reasons - fear of commitment (5-7 year lease)

And

An overhead exhaust that doesn’t switch off between 7am and 11pm daily (white noise hum I didn’t realise I am quite sensitive to)

But

FOMO tried hard to find a solution for me. They won me over just with that!

But I still said no when I got back.

A couple of weeks ago they called me into office for a chat, they said ‘so Frey- what willl it take to get you back here?’

I said

‘What do you have in mind?’

The main man said ‘well we know you don’t want a long lease do how about a summer lease till 31/March? And a re-negotiation after that?’

I took all of 3 seconds to respond with ‘um f**k yeah!’ I missed that sexy kitchen!

He sent me an offer after I couldn’t refuse and now here I am in my happy place cooking away with EarPods as an easy solution to the white noise - and last weekend was our first trade weekend (softly - which is why you didn’t know ok)

This coming weekend we are trading softly again from Friday 5-9, Saturday 5-9 and Sunday all day 11-9 - softly because my new business partner and I are finding our feet and doing things carefully this time (his name is Guillaume Morillon and he is a good influence on me in many ways)

The following weekend will be Thursday night trade onwards.

And we will serving up delicious Nepalese MOMO’s as well as Moroccan Tajine and cous cous, Frittata, delicious whole food salads, orange Syrup Cake, iced Moroccan Mint Tea, Spiced Iced Coffee with cream and more…

Can’t wait to see you all Freo Fomo Freo this weekend and the next and the one after…. Keep 11/11 free too for a fun celebration Freo Stylie 🥳🦩🥳🦩🥳

22/10/2023

We are open today!

There’s a beautiful vintage market here at Fomo

Come and have Maroccan tajine, or try our World famous orange syrup cake and iced mint tea, check out all the pretty things and lets celebrate
life 🦩🦩

22/10/2023

We are open today!

There’s a beautiful vintage market here at Fomo

Come and have Maroccan tajine, or try our World famous orange syrup cake and iced mint tea, check out all the pretty things and lets celebrate
life 🦩🦩