Life begins in the city after the sun sets; this is your ultimate itinerary.

Perth has often taken a back seat to other major Australian&nbsp;cities. However, the WA city is reclaiming the driver&rsquo;s seat and&nbsp;taking the wheel with scores of award-winning restaurants and&nbsp;bars and a prime entertainment scene. The next time you&rsquo;re&nbsp;headed to Perth, be sure to clear your schedule once the sun&nbsp;goes down&mdash;because that&rsquo;s when the good part actually starts.

A GASTRONOMIC ADVENTURE WORTH&nbsp;SAVOURING
The city is home to many award-winning restaurants serving&nbsp;up excellent food using only the best produce. You may not&nbsp;have the opportunity to experience all of them, but you must&nbsp;make time in your itinerary for Wildflower. As for accolades,&nbsp;Wildflower has plenty since its inception in 2015. Sitting&nbsp;on top of the COMO The Treasury hotel, the fine dining&nbsp;restaurant overlooks the Perth CBD and Swan River.
What makes Wildflower genuinely unique is the use of not&nbsp;just local but also native ingredients to craft the menu, which&nbsp;follows the six Noongar seasons, which is the Aboriginal&nbsp;seasonal calendar. Expect an interesting tasting menu with&nbsp;ingredients you&rsquo;d typically not find anywhere else, elevated&nbsp;into fine dishes.

You must visit Lucy Luu, one of the many successful dining&nbsp;venues by iconic local restaurateur Jacquie Chan for something&nbsp;a little more casual. This new joint focuses on modernised&nbsp;Southeast Asian flavours stylised into small bites&mdash;expect&nbsp;delicious morsels like deep-fried lamb ribs with xin jiang crust,&nbsp;sriracha prawn toast with saffron aioli, and steak tartare with&nbsp;Szechuan spice and wasabi aioli. Creative craft cocktails are&nbsp;also in the spotlight at Lucy Luu, with the bites designed to&nbsp;pair with the drinks for an entertaining and casual night out.
In the spirit of drinks, bar night outs at Perth are also not to&nbsp;be missed. Your only problem will be picking a spot&mdash;but we&rsquo;ll&nbsp;have that settled for you. For the best of two worlds, make your&nbsp;way to Naber + IIII in the Leederville neighbourhood. The bar&nbsp;is designed to have two different experiences in one location.&nbsp;At the front of the shop, you have Naber, your quintessential&nbsp;classy cocktail bar with refined food and drinks&mdash;but never&nbsp;stuffy. For a casual hang, head on through and out to the back&nbsp;of IIII (pronounced &lsquo;four&rsquo;) to the courtyard. With music in the&nbsp;air, snacks to share, sip on refreshing drinks, and local wines&nbsp;and beers, the night is young, and so is everyone.
Take an adventurous turn for the night and go bar hunting&mdash;&nbsp;quite literally. Sneaky Tony&rsquo;s in Northbridge proves to be a&nbsp;challenging hidden bar to unearth, but rewarding once you&nbsp;find it. You&rsquo;ll quickly discover that the Prohibition-themed&nbsp;bar is rum-focused, as the bar shelves are stocked with over&nbsp;300 bottles of rum. Choose from one of the many rum-based&nbsp;cocktails, or have some carefully-curated beer and wine.&nbsp;You&rsquo;ll need a secret password to get into the bar on Friday and&nbsp;Saturday nights, so be sure to check out their Facebook and&nbsp;Instagram pages for the password drop.

FOR THE IN-BETWEENERS
Not every night needs to be filled with fine food and booze, and&nbsp;that&rsquo;s perfectly fine. For those nights, Perth still has so much to&nbsp;offer. Make your way to the Crown Theatre for live musicals,&nbsp;comedy, theatre, and music acts from all around the world.&nbsp;This classic theatre is top-class and comfortable with a great&nbsp;atmosphere, bringing together like-minded people who want a&nbsp;good show. For something a little more classic, His Majesty&rsquo;s&nbsp;Theatre is the place to go. Established in 1904, the Edwardian&nbsp;Baroque architecture of the theatre is definitely one of the first&nbsp;things you&rsquo;ll marvel at. Here, you can view ballet acts like the&nbsp;effervescent Swan Lake; cabaret acts, dances, and more.
Want something a little more relaxing? Here&rsquo;s a nighttime&nbsp;activity that&rsquo;s perfect for couples: stargazing at the Perth&nbsp;Observatory. Not only are the night sky tours highly&nbsp;educational, but you&rsquo;ll also spend the two-hour session gazing&nbsp;at the Southern Hemisphere sky in its full glory. If gazing at the&nbsp;stars isn&rsquo;t your idea of fun, perhaps watching a movie under the&nbsp;stars might be up your alley. In the summer&mdash;typically from&nbsp;November to April&mdash;Rooftop Movies open in a Northbridge&nbsp;rooftop car park. The area is transformed into an outdoor&nbsp;cinema with beanbags and snacks for a balmy movie night

GO OUT WITH A BANG
The pandemic may have put a hold on good ol&rsquo; fun for two&nbsp;years, but nothing&rsquo;s stopping us from partying now. Perth&rsquo;s&nbsp;nightclubs are diverse, but they all have the same mission:&nbsp;giving us a good time. Jack Rabbit Slim&rsquo;s has been aroundfor several years with the same foolproof schedule of hosting&nbsp;live music from bands in the evenings and DJ sets later in the&nbsp;night. Are you feeling peckish after all that dancing? Jack&nbsp;Rabbit Slim&rsquo;s has you covered with a late-night diner within&nbsp;the property and some spiked milkshakes to keep you going.
For a party experience like no other, you&rsquo;ll have to visit Magnet&nbsp;House. Home to three bars and two separate rooms that host&nbsp;different DJs with genres from house to hip hop, dance, and&nbsp;pop, this is a club you won&rsquo;t get bored of. Not to mention,&nbsp;the state-of-the-art audio/visual setup in Magnet House is not&nbsp;to be trifled with. The club is home to Australia&rsquo;s first fullyautomated&nbsp;LED ceiling transforms in real-time, leaving you&nbsp;asking, &ldquo;Am I drunk, or is the ceiling moving?&rdquo;

Perth After Hours: An ultimate itinerary for night life in Perth

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