The grounds, now whittled down to nine acres, are bordered on one side by the round-the-clock throom of the Staten Island Expressway and on two others by encroaching town houses, so close you could grab a hot dog off the grill on someone's back deck.
Whenever my friends and I were having burgers at the Frost Top or Camellia Grill after school, someone who knew my parents would appear out of nowhere to remind me that I was looking not-so-pleasingly plump and didn't I want to reconsider that double order of fries.
Someone grilled hot dogs and hamburgers.
Someone grilled burgers and franks, while R&B and hip-hop thumped from a boom box.
Her young son, she told us, looking sideways at someone grilling octopus on Homeric charcoal, wants an iPhone 6.
A place to fire up the grill -- or have someone fire it up for you.
"If you can bowl a ball at someone's grill, I don't care who you are you're going to feel intimidated - and especially on a wicket like Perth," he said.
He just plays tough, physical defense, does not play with any intent to injure, but isn't afraid to get in someone's grill".
Behind the bar, someone was grilling meat for the star and his crew.
It was all at once both refreshing to see someone properly "grilled" on Newsnight for the first time in months, and depressing that it had to be by another guest.
