A witness has spoken of his shock after Floreat’s normally quiet Boulevard Hotel descended into violence on Sunday night, resulting in a man being stretchered away by paramedics.

Radio 6PR journalist Michael Stamp was dining at the boutique venue with his mother and sister when the incident took place.

“It was about 7.30pm. We were seated at a table and suddenly my sister said to me ‘Michael, Michael look out,’” Stamp recounted.

“I turned around and there were these two guys with their hands around each other’s throats...I think a couple of punches might have been thrown as well.

“I got out of the way and they spilt onto our table.”

Stamp said one of the men got up and left the scene as venue management intervened but the other was not so fortunate.

“He was lying on the ground, not moving...he seemed to have hurt his head or his neck,” he said.

“People came in with pillows and helped him until the paramedics arrived and they took him away on a stretcher.”

The incident was out of step with both the mood of the evening and the vibe of the venue, Stamp said.

“A couple of people said the guys had been arguing but I had my back to them so I hadn’t seen them before,” he said.

“It’s not the kind of thing you expect. You’re just having a quiet dinner and then these blokes end up on your lap.”