We ducked off to Lorne for a saltation long-weekend, managing to luck out with a ridiculously lovely few days of sunshine. We spent most of the fourth dimension wandering the beach together with the scout tracks, reading books together with eating our means through to a greater extent than or less of the treats that the town has to offer.
We stumbled across Mexican Republic (which strangely has no website - here's the Zomato page) on our walk upwardly to our accommodation together with headed dorsum for an early on dinner.
It's a cute lilliputian house with a handful of booths together with a distich of exterior tables. The carte du jour is reasonably veg-friendly, although you'd postulate to inquire for to a greater extent than or less alterations to larn anything vegan. We kicked things off with a mojito ($15) together with a citrus margarita ($12), which were boozy together with refreshing. Cindy ordered i of the smokey edible bean tacos (with goats cheese, dark beans, corn together with smokey salsa, $8) amongst to a greater extent than or less charred street corn (butter, cheese, chipotle mayo together with lime, $6). She was specially impressed past times the well-charred corn, piece the $8 taco was a decent if expensive bite.
I ordered the smokey burrito (black beans, quinoa, guacamole, smokey love apple tree together with corn salsa, goats cheese, cabbage, pickled onion together with chipotle mayo, $16). Quinoa is sort of a weird burrito filling, but it does a skillful chore of replacing the regular rice choice piece adding a flake of a crunchy texture. The residual of the fillings were decent every bit well, but it needed to a greater extent than or less hot sauce to liven things upwardly a flake together with was a flake over-priced at $16 (to last fair, everything seemed a lilliputian flake pricier inward Lorne than inward Melbourne).
We got upwardly super early on the adjacent morn to cheque out the sunrise from Teddy's Lookout (photos inward the slideshow below) together with wandered downward to the principal street after to reach out our brekkie options. The early on crowds were at Moon's Espresso, together with the carte du jour was enticing plenty to lure us inward to bring together them.
The carte du jour is pretty eggy - at that spot is a uncomplicated toast dish with hummus, avo, basil together with love apple tree ($14) that seemed vegan, but that was nigh it. I was starving together with ordered the biggest dish I could - the Mushington D.C. - a vivid combo of sauteed mushrooms with goats cheese, dukka, spinach together with poached eggs on toast ($17). Cindy had the to a greater extent than little fruit toast with butter ($8), which was a company rendition of a pretty straightforward dish.
We snacked at abode together with thence went for an early on dinner at the highly regarded Pizza Pizza. The tiny lilliputian shopfront cranks out high lineament pizzas - the alone seating for straight off is at the outdoor tables, although at that spot was to a greater extent than or less locomote going on inward the edifice adjacent door to add together inward to a greater extent than or less indoor seating.
Pizza Pizza feels direct outta Brunswick - crispy, perfectly cooked bases, with an interesting choice of toppings. We split upwardly a Pizza for Nelly (napoli sauce, mozzarella, capers, olives, sun-dried love apple tree together with caramelised onions, $16.50) together with a Spinner (napoli sauce, mozzarella, spinach, roast pumpkin, feta together with pino nuts, $16.50). These were really splendid pizzas - definitely worth a see (or a takeaway downward at the beach).
On Lord's Day nosotros grabbed a belatedly brunch at the Swing Bridge Cafe together with Boathouse, a cute lilliputian cafe perfectly situated past times the span over the Erskine River. It's a pop spot, bathed inward sunlight, with the surrounding picnic tables included inward the cafe's service area.
It's a little menu, with zip plainly vegan. I ordered the 'weeds' - tiresome poached eggs on sourdough, with smashed avocado, goats cheese, coriander together with kale ($17). The super tiresome poached eggs are pretty gooey - I don't heed them, but they're an acquired taste. The residual of this was ace though, with the kale letting me pretend that I was having a salubrious weekend. Cindy grabbed i of the sweets - an apple tree crumble muffin - with a strawberry smoothie ($8). The smoothie didn't actually outburst with fresh strawberries, with the unripe banana base of operations overwhelming it all a bit. The muffin was okay - non loaded with apple, but warm, sweetness together with strudel-ly.
Our terminal repast of the weekend was at The Bottle of Milk, a specialty burger house with branches inward Lorne together with Torquay. The menu's got 5 veggie burger options - 3 of which tin easily last made vegan.
We had the tofu burger (foreground, marinated grilled tofu with tomato, onion, carrot, lettuce, mayo, chillie glue together with satay sauce, $14) together with the hot lentil (background, housemade lentil patty with cheese, lettuce, tomato, onion, carrot, mayo, chilli together with lemon yoghurt) addition a serve of fries ($6.50) with bbq sauce ($1). I was actually impressed past times my lentil burger - an splendid patty, with to a greater extent than or less zingy condiments together with fresh salad. The tofu burger worked good every bit good - marinated tofu at non-vego is frequently pretty bland, thence nosotros were impressed that The Bottle of Milk seemed to know what they were doing.
We had a lovely weekend inward Lorne - the atmospheric condition was perfect, the setting was stunning together with the nutrient was pretty come about notch.
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