January half-dozen & 10, 2016
In 2006 Tom Phat was a novel entry into the Cheap Eats guide, on the frontier of Brunswick gentrification together with Asian fusion food. H5N1 decade after its brunch & bar fit-out has barely changed together with aged rather well, alongside flooring infinite doubling thank y'all to an extension into a neighbouring shopfront. While dishes bring shuffled some from fourth dimension to time, the carte has remained a mish-mash of eggs together with roti, curries together with stir-fries, cocktails together with mocktails, alongside well-marked veg options, enough of tofu together with at to the lowest degree ane bring upward of tempeh.
We offset visited together with blogged Tom Phat inwards 2008 together with made a follow-up postal service inwards 2011. While these depict positive encounters, we'll acknowledge to a couplet of disappointments regarding both the nutrient together with the service inwards between; Carla was far to a greater extent than thorough inwards her polarised feelings on easy as vegan pie. In the past times calendar week we've returned for both dinner together with breakfast to detect out how Tom Phat is faring inwards 2016.
For dinner, Michael ordered the fried crispy silken tofu alongside reddish pumpkin curry, basil together with lime on rice ($19). The tofu pieces were similar deep-fried clouds, the curry was fragrant together with citrusy, together with Michael was real pleased.
I took on the nasi goreng ($18; we paid $12.90 for the same dish inwards 2011). It was sweetness alongside kecap manis together with a trivial smoky, alongside skewers of tofu together with tempeh together with a fried egg that spilled golden yolk over the rice. Another winner, nosotros reckoned. I washed it downward alongside a tangy Eastern Sunset mocktail ($6) of orangish juice, pineapple juice, lemon juice together with grenadine.
With happy memories of a scrambled tofu dish dorsum inwards the day, Michael develop his oculus on their electrical flow version for breakfast ($14.90). It wasn't the spicy egg-substitute he was anticipating, instead a soupy bowl of 'roast tomato plant salsa' belongings silken tofu blobs, wilting spinach leaves together with a few push mushrooms.
Michael does credit Tom Phat for introducing him to Vietnamese iced coffees (still $4 after v years). He's mighty fond of getting his summertime caffeine alongside a shot of condensed milk, though he immediately does hence to a greater extent than oftentimes from Wide Open Road.
Meanwhile, I was curious to revisit the roti pancake ($12.90; up from $11 inwards 2011). Indicative of changes inwards me to a greater extent than than at Tom Phat, this didn't hold upward out. Tough to cut, filled alongside mashed banana together with encased inwards toffee, this was extraordinarily sweetness fifty-fifty earlier the icecream hitting the plate (oh, for a trivial lime or spice to cutting through the sugar!). My ii favourite things almost roti are its flakiness together with its fragile crunchy surface, together with this approach maintains neither.
If nil else, Tom Phat remains consistently inconsistent! It seems whatever dish is as probable to generate a smile or a grimace. We were similarly bemused past times the playlist, a mix of early on '90s hip hop past times black together with Wilco backed upward against CDB past times day. The service staff, at least, were reliably friendly together with efficient. It's fascinating that such a eatery has persevered for a decade alongside real few updates - we'll likely proceed to swing past times every immediately together with then, but Tom Phat has never actually locked downward our loyalty.
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You tin hand the axe also read almost one, two of our previous visits. Since hence it's received praise from beau veg blogger I Talk Too Much My Mouth Hurts, Only Through You, TEXTURE past times alexandra, Asian Restaurants inwards Melbourne, Melbourne Epicurean Eats, krapow, Lots of Cravings together with New International Students, bows alongside boats, The Bakeanista together with Monschable Melbourne.
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Tom Phat
184 Sydney Rd, Brunswick
9381 2374
breakfast & drinks, lunch & dinner
http://www.tomphat.com.au/
Accessibility: Tom Phat has a small-scale ramp on entry. Tables are aligned through the length of the edifice alongside a corridor through that starts off broad but gets a trivial to a greater extent than crowded towards the end. There is a disability-marked can out back. We ordered at our tabular array together with paid afterwards at the low-ish counter.
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