July 8, 2011: The Mercy Seat

Edit 07/06/2012: The Mercy Seat is similar a shot closed.

The veg*n grapevine is pretty amazing - it seemed similar the tidings of The Mercy Seat's beingness had hitting Facebook earlier it had fifty-fifty opened its doors. Cindy gave them a few days to classify themselves out earlier heading inwards to come across me for a quick weekday lunch. The Mercy Seat occupies the daylight hours of the infinite that newish bar 99 Problems uses at night. It's all vegetarian, doing a curt carte of breakfast in addition to luncheon dishes - mean value tofu scramble, bagels in addition to burgers.

We sampled both their burgers: Creole individual chicken burger for Cindy ($10) in addition to a blackened tofu mushroom burger for me ($12).

My burger was burstingly total amongst fried mushrooms, tofu cubes, salad, avocado in addition to a smear of vegan mayo. The success of this burger is driven to a greater extent than frequently than non yesteryear the wonderful Mexican salsa that the tofu is cooked inwards - there's a smoky spiciness to it that takes this from adept to outstanding.

Cindy's chicken burger looked a fleck less exciting to me - its centrepiece was a highly processed  in addition to perfectly circular 'chicken' patty. Still, the Creole spices added a fleck of spark in addition to the house-made lime-infused vegan mayo didn't wound either. Cindy enjoyed the sesame-seed heavy bun equally well, but this couldn't alive upwardly to the spicy chicken burger standards ready yesteryear The Gasometer (admittedly at a much higher price).

We were pretty impressed amongst The Mercy Seat - the nutrient was tasty in addition to affordable, the infinite is pleasant in addition to the staff were friendly. There's lots of vegan options - everything on the carte bar the scrambled eggs is vegan or vegan-adaptable, equally are nearly of the sweets, although there's naught gluten-free at this stage. We'll hold upwardly dorsum for brekkie presently - the scrambled tofu in addition to BLT bagel both audio worth a shot.

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I was certain we'd hold upwardly commencement to review The Mercy Seat, but Vetti in addition to Garden of Yoga were fifty-fifty quicker than us.

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The Mercy Seat
31 Johnston Street, Collingwood
no phone
brekkies $7.5 - $10, lunches $10-$12
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Accessibility: Flat entryway amongst a pocket-size mensuration betwixt the front end room in addition to the room amongst the counter (which is where you lot social club in addition to pay). It's fairly spacious in addition to tardily to instruct around, although nosotros didn't suss out the bath situation.