June 1, 2015
Moroccan eatery B'stilla latterly held a one-off vegan dinner to coincide amongst an exhibition of Julia Deville artworks. Rosalie was quick to organise a tabular array of neat diners in addition to I happily signed on for a seat. At get-go glance our tabular array looked cramped in addition to out of the way, but it proved perfectly cosy for sharing a conversation correct across the tabular array in addition to nosotros had no problem attracting the staff's attending throughout the night.
The kitchen had prepared a multi-course vegan repast for $45 per person. All nosotros had to create was warning them to extra dietary requirements (which they handled expertly) in addition to alternative roughly drinks! I skipped over the matched drinks in addition to other alcohol, mightily pleased to come across a distich of mocktails on offer. My family made rosewater lemonade ($8) had a rigid rose perfume that overwhelmed the mint garnish but balanced the lemon well.
Our get-go tabular array of nutrient featured triangles of freshly char-grilled batbout breadstuff served amongst a sparse in addition to tangy tomato plant citrus jam, crispy babe okra spiced amongst zhoug, in addition to cups of harira soup. In contrast to the version nosotros ready at home, this soup was low-cal on the tomato; to a greater extent than brothy, amongst plentiful chickpeas in addition to lentils.
For circular 2 nosotros were treated to a vegan change of their signature B'stilla. Instead of birds, this thick flaky pastry was filled amongst eggplant in addition to pumpkin pieces, almonds, cinnamon in addition to saffron. It was rather mild, for all that - I enjoyed the icing saccharide in addition to cinnamon dusted over the superlative but cursed our ineffectual knives equally I plunged through the casing.
The accompanying salads were also terrific - roasted beetroots were served amongst walnuts in addition to chermoula, in addition to the refreshing coleslaw included almonds, apricot in addition to chilli.
We had to last difficult to break room for the terminal circular of savoury foods - nosotros actually didn't create the origin vegetable tagine or dill-garnished couscous justice.
As commons I perked upward for dessert, spooning out my fair part of saffron rice pudding topped amongst tangy-crunchy-chewy bursts of freeze-dried strawberry, pistachio in addition to dried barberry. It was encouraging to come across a non-vegetarian eatery convert a unremarkably dairy-laden dish, instead of falling dorsum on fruit or sorbet.
Nobody could perhaps convey left this dinner hungry! B'stilla were generous in addition to thoughtful inward their hosting of this vegan meal. One of their reps has previously contacted us stressing their willingness to cater to exceptional diets, in addition to thus there's a goodness jeopardy that anyone could mass ahead in addition to have dishes only equally goodness equally what nosotros experienced at this exceptional event. We tin also vouch for the warm, attentive staff in addition to relaxed atmosphere at B'stilla.
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Green Gourmet Giraffe convey already blogged the same event. B'stilla was also covered past times vegetarian blogger Eve Lovelle, Melbourne Din(n)ing Blog, The Sinful Organic Cook, the hungry excavator, Let's Get Fat Together, Petit Miamx, Adventures of a Melbourne Girl, Gourmet Chick, One Fat Cow, the indolent cook, confessions of a fiddling piggy, A Sheepish Food Blog.
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B'stilla
xxx Bray St, South Yarra
9826 2370
banquet menu, drinks
http://bstilla.com/
Accessibility: We took one-half a dozen steps upward on entry in addition to didn't notice a to a greater extent than accessible alternative. Tables are densely packed amongst clear corridors through the centre. We ordered in addition to received the nib at our table, in addition to elected to pay at the high counter. One of my dining companions observed that reaching the toilets required navigating crowded tables, in addition to that they are gendered in addition to relatively narrow.
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