East Elevation

March 2, 2013

L'Atelier de Monsieur Truffe, amongst a advert alter to East Elevation together with some assort of rejiggery. Cindy scanned the novel carte du jour online, noting loads of similarities to the quondam carte du jour together with an added dose of vegan-friendliness, then nosotros headed on over to investigate.

Aside from the name, it doesn't look also different: same unmarked ruddy door on entrance, same wonderful high-ceilinged interior, same charming staff. The pick of Msr Truffe goodies for sale has shrunk slightly, but there's even then a pretty total attain on offering (we left amongst a span of nighttime chocolate blocks tucked into our backpack). We got the rundown from the staff virtually the recent changes - it turns out that Thibault Fregoni has sold the Truffe build together with headed off overseas, leaving Jade inwards accuse of the chocolate-making together with amongst novel management running the cafes. The cafe's name-change was every bit much to betoken these underlying changes every bit anything else - the same kitchen staff are running things together with most of the front-of-house staff were familiar to us from previous visits. Even the carte du jour isn't that unlike - a few dishes are precisely the same, together with the full general vibe is pretty similar.

What seems to hold upward novel is a focus on offering a attain of vegan-friendly dishes - in that location are 4 dishes that are vegan past times default, addition a handful of others that tin hold upward adapted. They're also pretty clear amongst the gluten-free labelling, although they don't seem to offering gf toast. We decided to come across how they fared for restricted diets, both ordering vegan together with gluten-free dishes. Cindy ordered the organic kokosnoot together with lime tapioca amongst fresh mango, passionfruit, strawberry together with nut crumble ($12).

At $12 this was a whole lot to a greater extent than interesting than my $14 summertime porridge at Marmalade together with Soul; the tapioca was sweetness together with citrussy, amongst the poured over kokosnoot milk adding some moisture. The fresh fruit was fantabulous and, although Cindy wasn't mad virtually the role of hazelnuts, it was a pretty impressive dish.

I went savoury, skipping over some delicious-sounding egg dishes every bit good every bit a vegan eggplant together with mango noodle salad earlier settling on the chipotle-braised tempeh amongst mint, zucchini ribbons, kokosnoot together with cauliflower puree, oranges, hazelnuts together with watercress ($17).

This was spectacular - the spicy tempeh together with amazingly creamy cauliflower puree combining amongst the freshness of the greens together with my novel favourite way to swallow zucchini. The oranges together with nuts kept things varied together with interesting, together with the whole repast but impressed me amongst its imagination together with execution. Admittedly I'm form of a sucker for anyone who'll serve me tempeh but this really, actually hitting the mark.

A few to a greater extent than things stay unchanged at East Elevation: they get got the same impressive pick of pastries together with sweets upward at the counter together with they accept their hot chocolate very, real seriously. We had some fourth dimension to kill, then nosotros decided we'd meliorate come across if their standards had slipped.

Cindy's unmarried rootage hot chocolate was ridiculously rich together with gloopy - actually but similar drinking melted chocolate. Which is no bad affair at all.

Our sweets (a passionfruit yo-yo for Cindy together with a hurting au chocolat for me) were top notch every bit good - the hurting au chocolat was a fight less brown, crunchy together with flaky than I retrieve from previous trips, but the nighttime chocolate was every bit skillful every bit ever.

Reassuringly, East Elevation hasn't strayed far at all from their L'atelier de Monsieur Truffe roots - the nutrient is even then excellent, the atmosphere cool together with relaxing together with the chocolates together with sweets every bit fantastic every bit ever. It's vivid that they get got such a swell attain of vegetarian together with vegan meals every bit good - they're actually doing their best to compete amongst places similar Wide Open Road - hopefully it goes good for them.

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Read virtually our previous visits to L'atelier de Monsieur Truffe here, here together with here. I'm non certain anyone has reviewed East Elevation yet (it's unclear which iteration of this house this Hey Bambini post relates to).

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East Elevation
351 Lygon Street, Brunswick East
9380 4915
veg dishes $6-18
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Accessibility: Excellent. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 ramp on entry, swell light, lots of infinite together with a dedicated disabled toilet. Ordering happens at the tabular array together with payment at a reasonably depression counter.