Spoon's Vegetarian Butcher

23/05/2013: News on Spoon's facebook page suggests that they're no longer operating at this location. There'll presently move another vegan cafe inwards the shopfront! Thanks to @cookiedaux & @Zuckerbaby for the update.

February 1, 2013

I had a expert move excuse to move inwards Sydney for a calendar week at the commencement of Feb as well as I managed to speak Cindy into coming upward early on with me as well as spending a long-weekend eating our agency through the inner-west. We got inwards nigh dejeuner time, dumped our bags as well as headed direct downwards to Spoon's Vegetarian Butcher on Enmore Road.

Spoon's is a mock-meat house selling their ain attain of products (sausages, schnitzels, pies, burgers as well as seitan bits), with a handful of other mock-meat goodies, loads of sauces as well as a few other bits as well as pieces. The best part? They've fitted it all out similar an former schoolhouse butcher - correct downwards to the moo-cow caput on the wall as well as the faux grass inwards the cabinet. It's pretty special.

They also stimulate got a fish as well as chip agency front end section, with a grill as well as a modest bill of fare of made to social club goodies. There are a duad of burgers, a BLT, 2 variations on sausages inwards breadstuff as well as a handful of sides. As presently equally I saw them, I knew Cindy was going to social club the Kentucky-style tofu nuggets ($4.50).

We couldn't help comparison them to Mama Shaz as well as Baby Pickle, Veggies & Me, Meet the Wikos, Cindy's invented KFC tofu, as well as these in all likelihood didn't quite mensurate up. They were nonetheless pretty slap-up though, crispy as well as coated inwards Spoon's ain hush-hush herbs as well as spices, served with a sweetness mayo-type dipping sauce.

For mains, Cindy ordered the BLT (smokey rasher, tomato, lettuce as well as mayo, $10).

I'm non sure if the bacon is made inwards household - it sure enough wasn't the commons Sanitarium-style rasher. Cindy commented that it was real much at the charred, crispy halt of bacon imitation, quite unlike to the commons fakers.

I went for the schnitzel burger, which comes with the old-school accompaniments of tomato, beetroot, onion as well as mayo. I added a piece of vegan cheese for an extra buck.

This was particular - the schnitzel had the perfect texture, with a crumby outside as well as a chewy patty. The flavours are expert equally good - meaty, oniony as well as hearty. 

After watching a client purchase a brownie as well as and thus furnish inwards 5 minutes to purchase another, Cindy grabbed 1 on the agency out. It turned out to move banana flavoured, thus I didn't give it a endeavour - it was pretty pop with Cindy though.

I actually enjoyed our see to Spoon's - the faithful recreation of a suburban butcher takes a prissy petty vego house as well as kicks it upward to something actually fun. Spoon's seems to move doing pretty good equally good - they had a steady stream of customers spell nosotros were inwards as well as they're fifty-fifty getting positive reviews inwards the tabloid press. We've taken but about schnitzels as well as sausages domicile to endeavour out for ourselves - move on an oculus on twitter for updates! H5N1 happy regime annotation for all of our Melbourne readers - Radical Grocery stimulate got started transportation but about of Spoon's mock-meats downwards to Melbourne, thus yous tin presently selection them upward locally.

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Mama Shaz as well as Baby Pickle, Veggies & Me, Meet the Wikos, The Unbearable Lightness of Being Hungry, Mama Shaz as well as Baby Pickle, Veggies & Me, Meet the Wikos, easy equally (vegan) pie as well as Like a Vegan all stimulate got prissy things to state nigh Spoon's (both the hot nutrient as well as the accept domicile goodies).

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Spoon's Vegetarian Butcher
175 Enmore Road, Enmore
(02) 9029 8990
hot dishes $8-$10.50
facebook page as well as website for ordering

Accessibility: There's a modest footstep upward on entry. Ordering takes house at the butcher's counter, as well as yous select grip of your nutrient from a high counter nigh the fryer. The seating (some of which is at street marker out the front) is pretty express as well as generally depression stools.