February 25, 2007: Lentil Every 2Nd Anything

Australia Day awards would convey attracted our patronage past times now. Alas, unless you lot count our breakfast at Lentil As Africa, nosotros failed. With the encouragement of Emma in addition to Simon in addition to their visiting friend Ben, nosotros lastly made it at that topographic point on the weekend. And, unfortunately, it was a niggling disappointing.

We turned upward at merely about vii in addition to fortunately snagged a tabular array for 5 - it's a tiny place, which belike only seats thirty people at a stretch, in addition to hence nosotros were pretty lucky. The walls are covered amongst a mixture of artwork in addition to posters for yoga classes, in addition to the full general vibe is equally hippy friendly equally you'd expect. The carte du jour is a fairly impressive listing of vegetarian delights - curries, burgers, noodles in addition to other vaguely Asian-inspired options. We started off amongst a circular of mango lassis which, inward the idosyncratic trend of the place, required us to relinquish our H2O spectacles equally at that topographic point were insufficient spectacles for us to convey both H2O in addition to lassis. The drinks were modest but tasty - loaded upward amongst fresh mango, dear in addition to sprinkled amongst cinammon.

When it was fourth dimension for eating, I chose a pea in addition to white patato curry, served amongst yoghurt, relish, cerise rice in addition to roti, land Cindy went for oknomiyaki, topped amongst tofu mayonaise, pickled ginger, sweetness soy in addition to seaweed. The nutrient took ages to come upward and, afterwards 45 minutes or so, my curry came amongst neither rice (they'd run out) or roti (no thought why - Ben's was roti-tastic). Still, I could count myself lucky - Cindy's Japanese pancake was nowhere to live found. After waiting for some other few minutes, I enquired - unfortunately they'd somehow forgotten it, in addition to hence Cindy - the slowest eater at the tabular array - was left waiting land the residuum of us dug in. By the fourth dimension her repast arrived, nosotros were all finished in addition to the black had larn slightly frustrating. To live fair, despite the lack of rice in addition to roti, my curry was pretty tasty - the potatoes were good roasted, the sauce was spicy in addition to the salad broke upward the carbs nicely. And when Cindy's oknomiyaki lastly turned up, it was the highlight of the black - pipage hot, slightly sweetness in addition to delicious. Unfortunately, the kitchen seemed ill-equipped to continue upward amongst need in addition to it seemed similar the gimmick of having no develop prices provided a licence to live a flake slapdash amongst the service. It's a shame, because I was all develop to write a rave review of a house amongst a fantastic menu, dandy food, ridiculously large portions in addition to a wonderful philosophy, but it all ended upward a flake of a permit down. Maybe it was karma - fate getting us dorsum for ignoring Lentil equally Anything for in addition to hence long. We'll belike examine i time to a greater extent than at i of the other venues inward the future, but amongst slightly lowered expectations.

Address: 41 Blessington Street, St. Kilda
Ph: 95344844
Unlicensed (there was some testify of BYOing going on, but I'm non certain if it was exclusively legit)
Prices: Whatever you lot like! They recommend virtually $7 for mains.
Website: www.lentilasanything.com