April 4, 2011: The Spousal Human Relationship Social Club Hotel

Our ongoing quest to sample all the veg-friendly pubs of the inner-north continued alongside a Mon level jaunt to the Union Club Hotel inward Fitzroy's backstreets. It's a spacious house alongside a decent beer-garden in addition to enough of tables inside. We had our biggest pub gild attendance for a spell soundless had no problem finding a tabular array for eight.

The carte du jour has a handful of vegetarian options - a few entrees, a burger, a pizza, roughly baked mushrooms in addition to 1 of the specials. Cindy couldn't resist the lure of something fried - zucchini in addition to goat's cheese fritters alongside garden salad in addition to lemon creme fraiche ($16).

The fritters themselves were a success, crispy-skinned balls of fried cheesiness, but the salad was a fleck limp in addition to over-dressed.

I went alongside the hearty vegan burger - a house-made v edible bean pattie, flavoured alongside exceptional spices, alongside salad in addition to chips ($16).

The patty was loaded upward alongside beany poly peptide in addition to walked the fine describe of piece of employment betwixt dryness in addition to sogginess. My salad didn't appear every bit soggy every bit Cindy's in addition to the lightly toasted Turkish staff of life bun held everything together nicely. It's keen to run across a pub offering upward a decent repast for vegans - in addition to then many of the pub vego options nosotros run across are pretty cheese-focussed.

The Union Club was a real successful pub gild venue - gluten costless options for our resident coeliac, a warm wintertime atmosphere, lots of practiced booze to select from in addition to pretty decent prices. It volition definitely larn a furnish visit.

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The Union Club Hotel
Cnr Gore in addition to Webb Streets, Fitzroy
9417 2926
fully licensed
entrees: $10 - $12, mains: $16 - $18
http://www.unionclubhotel.com.au/

Accessibility: Looks practiced - only a minor measurement to come inward in addition to enough of infinite inside. Ordering in addition to payment happens at a typically high pub bar.