I've been badgering Cindy to see Téta Mona always since I saw their posters popular upward a few months agone to a greater extent than or less Brunswick. Teta Mona is named afterwards the grandmother of the brothers who run things - they're aiming to recreate the form of nutrient she used to develop for them together with serve it upward to the Brunswick masses. They seem to stimulate got struck a chord - it's only a few months afterwards they opened together with things are already heaving. We turned upward at vii on a Wed to detect everything except the large communal tabular array booked up.
The infinite is vivid together with modern - polished woods floors, high ceilings together with large windows hand everything an open, airy feel. The opened upward kitchen runs along the side of the restaurant, then there's enough of hustle together with bustle, peculiarly ane time the tables start filling up. They're only running amongst a BYO licence for now, then nosotros sampled their non-boozy drinks: a dwelling solid made lemonade for me together with a rosewater trounce for Cindy ($4 a pop).
The infinite is vivid together with modern - polished woods floors, high ceilings together with large windows hand everything an open, airy feel. The opened upward kitchen runs along the side of the restaurant, then there's enough of hustle together with bustle, peculiarly ane time the tables start filling up. They're only running amongst a BYO licence for now, then nosotros sampled their non-boozy drinks: a dwelling solid made lemonade for me together with a rosewater trounce for Cindy ($4 a pop).
The lemonade was tangy together with non overly sweet, but I was jealous of Cindy's frozen blood-red drink, which looked incredible. As you'd facial expression from the colouring of it, it was really sweet.
The carte du jour is divided into 3 sections: zghiir (small, $8 each), wasat (medium, $13.50 each) together with kbiir (large, $17.50 each). Vegetarian options are labelled, although there's some confusion nigh the important of vegan, amongst dishes clearly containing yoghurt getting marked amongst a 'v'. There are enough of vegan options - it only pays to social club carefully. The hold off staff were pretty helpful too, letting us know which dishes were able to travel done gluten-free (most of them, if you lot dropped the bread).
We got a fighting carried away, ordering ii of the little plates, ii medium together with ane large betwixt 3 of us. The little plates were belike my highlights - loubiye khadra (sauteed light-green beans inward onion, garlic together with chilli sauce) together with foule madam (fava beans, tomato, lemon together with parsley salad). Both were much to a greater extent than than the total of their parts - the beans inward detail managing to residual the chilli together with garlic perfectly.
The commencement medium plate was the arnabeet wa beethnjaan tahini (pan-fried eggplant together with cauliflower amongst tahini together with bread). This was a solid dish equally good - the eggplant had a prissy crisp to the peel to a greater extent than or less tender, well-seasoned flesh, piece the cauliflower was soft together with golden-fried.
We also had to crusade their falafel, served amongst pickles, breadstuff together with tahini. They were first-class piffling balls - loaded amongst herbs together with crispy on the exterior without beingness all dry out inward the middle. The pickles were non bad equally well.
By this fourth dimension nosotros were all filling upward a fighting (warning: they convey breadstuff out amongst every dish - it's belike smart non to crusade to swallow it all) together with form of regretting our ane large dish, the kousa meshi (zucchini stuffed amongst wild chocolate-brown rice inward a rich edible bean together with Lycopersicon esculentum sauce amongst yoghurt). Luckily, it was delicious - the sauce was hearty together with tasty, together with the stuffed zucchinis had soaked it upward together with gone all soft together with saucy. It was far likewise filling for this scream for inward the repast together with nosotros cruel a fighting curt of polishing it all off, but that's to a greater extent than a score of our over-enthusiastic ordering than whatever shortcomings inward the dish.
Téta Mona is a welcome improver to the neighbourhood - the staff are friendly, the carte du jour really veg-friendly together with the nutrient overstep notch. It's non going to overtake Mankoushe inward our affections, but it's a really worthy contender.
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There've been a twosome of positive spider web log reviews for Téta Mona - come across Elesbury Corner Store together with Little Chef Meals.
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Téta Mona
100a Lygon Street, Brunswick East
9380 6680
Accessibility: There's a little measurement upward equally you lot come upward in. Tables are pretty densely packed, but there's a corridor running upward beside the kitchen towards the courtyard (which nosotros didn't company out to explore). They took our social club at the tabular array together with nosotros paid at a high counter (although I'm certain they'd accept payment at the tabular array if you lot were patient). We didn't see the toilets.
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