March 16-18, 2007: Sydney

While Melbourne's Food together with Wine Festival began inward a haze of car exhaust, Michael together with I skipped over to Sydney for the weekend. Our excuse was to celebrate the appointment of our friend Brent to the lovely Jamee, but nosotros also flora fourth dimension to meet a pair of the city's other sights together with restaurants.

Our starting fourth dimension memorable eating sense was at Chilli Chimney. There's aught to distinguish it from countless other Indian restaurants together with takeaways inward the inner-city suburbs except for our fabulously friendly waiter. More than merely reciting the evening's specials, he took dandy please inward explaining that he'd never seen such eastward Indian dishes on whatever carte du jour together with described their contents inward meticulous detail. Michael together with I were correspondingly delighted that the specials were vegetarian together with consequently ordered them. On the left are deep-fried "chops", patties of moist grated carrot together with beetroot, along amongst a host of spices that I can't remember. On the correct is a dish of cabbage kofta amongst garlic sauce. It was wonderful, together with if I were a local I would own got urged that enthusiastic waiter to innovate them to the regular menu.

For Sabbatum morn I had booked us a tabular array at Bodhi inward the Park. This is a vegan yum-cha eating theater nestled inward Cook & Phillip Park, the grazing vegetarian's dream: at whatever ordinary yum cha it's slowly to larn the staff's to the lowest degree favourite client equally yous inspect every dish for pork mince and/or meat stock. It's a existent process to greedily own got a plate of anything that looks appetising, together with greedy I was! Take a await what Michael together with I called 'breakfast':

curry buns

satay salad

spring rolls with
sweet together with sour sauce

soft edible bean curd

mushroom balls

fruit salad

passionfruit jelly: don't forget to choice upwardly a spoon from the waitress, 'cause it's mighty awkward trying to purpose chopsticks equally I did!

Others own got complained most the patchy service, but nosotros were pretty good attended to. With common views, sunny skies together with a few cute children to sentry at neighbouring tables, I can't mean value of a to a greater extent than pleasant means to sentry a Sabbatum morn larn afternoon.

Other highlights included catching upwardly amongst Jackson together with Emma, friends from Brisbane who were also visiting for the appointment celebrations, together with seeing the shortlisted entries for the 2007 Archibald, Wynne together with Sulman Prizes at the Art Gallery of NSW (just a brusque walk across the grass from Bodhi).

If you'd similar to read to a greater extent than most vegetarian eating inward Sydney, I'd recommend checking out the Veggie Friendly blog: the front end page is temporarily filled amongst NYC reviews but cheque out the archives, listed yesteryear city, for lots of reviews.