The Age as well as about every food blogger inwards Melbourne. It's correct on Lygon Street, a mere five infinitesimal bike or tram ride due north of our identify as well as it's inwards the East Brunswick strip that we frequent fairly often. So why lead keep nosotros taken thus long to acquire there? Disorganisation. Rumi became thus pop thus rapidly that, past times the fourth dimension we'd heard close it, y'all had to mass weeks inwards advance to acquire a table. And nosotros but don't component subdivision good on that sort of timeframe - nosotros can't fifty-fifty store to a greater extent than than a twenty-four hours inwards advance.
Anyway, a brace of sometime friends of mine were inwards town on Midweek and, alongside my commons foresight, I rang Rumi on Tuesday level to endeavour to mass a tabular array for the adjacent night. They offered us a place, provided nosotros could hold upwards out past times 7:30. I made the hope without consulting anyone else as well as crossed my fingers that nosotros could all plough upwards past times vi or thus as well as lead keep sufficient fourth dimension to actually explore the menu. Unfortunately, piece I enjoyed i of their Turkish beers, Ben as well as Laura were stuck inwards a cab trying to brand their agency out to Brunswick. By the fourth dimension they arrived, it was good afterward 6:30 as well as I was a fleck tense that nosotros were going to cease upwards spending our repast rushing through the courses. Instead, nosotros opted to deed to i of the outdoor tables - these are unbookable as well as are at that spot for the few walk-ins who accept their chances. Luckily nosotros claimed ours early on as well as could sit down dorsum as well as relax for the residual of the level without worrying close eating rapidly or getting out on time. Excellent! The staff were real helpful throughout all of this - non at all grumpy at us for messing upwards as well as breaking our hope to hold upwards out of their pilus early.
Our waitress was also exceedingly helpful when it came to ordering. We explained our situation: ii vegos, ii non-vegos (who were generally sympathetic to our meat-free agenda) as well as iv reasonably hungry people. After getting the consummate run-down on our options, nosotros settled on iv of the smaller dishes (all vego) to percentage betwixt the iv of us as well as a primary for each brace (Ben as well as Laura couldn't turn down the lamb koresht).
Cafe Zum Zum. Still, that's similar proverb Degrassi doesn't quite mensurate upwards to Press Gang or that Breakfast of Champions isn't every bit funny every bit Catch-22 - it's barely fifty-fifty a criticism.
Next upwards came a brace of plates together - the eggplant m'nazleh (eggplant as well as light-green pepper braised alongside tomato, $10.50) as well as the fried cauliflower (with onions, currants as well as pinenuts, $11). The eggplant was soft as well as mushy - the best accompaniment for the pita breads of all our pocket-sized plates. It was delicately flavoured - lightly spiced as well as a completely delicious. It's quite oily, but that works good inwards pocket-sized doses smeared on bread. The cauliflower was likely the highlight of the evening. Somehow they'd gently cooked the florets until they were a fleck on the soft side as well as and thus charred rapidly to blacken upwards the edges as well as hand them some crunch. The onions, currants as well as pinenuts added a fleck of texture as well as flavour, but the florets could lead keep stood lonely - they were amazing.
The finally pocket-sized plate was the roasted carrot salad (with tahini, dukkah as well as parsley, $11). It was the most impressively presented of the plates: a picayune cross-hatched tower of carrot alongside generous sprinklings of dukkah as well as flat-leaf parsley. The carrots were cooked until they were every bit soft every bit they could hold upwards without falling to pieces as well as the carroty flavor was the perfect complement to the tart tahini.
Next upwards was our primary - the solely vego primary on the menu, the vegetable fatteh (with pita, chickpeas, silverbeet, parsley as well as tahini yoghurt, topped alongside nuts as well as smoked paprika, $17). Again, this invoked obvious comparisons alongside Zum Zum, but I recall on this occasion Rumi won the day. The crispy pita pieces, divine yoghurt, chickpeas as well as the delicious paprika-y nuts on top. We had no problems polishing this off (and fifty-fifty managed to percentage a few spoonfuls alongside our meat-eating friends).
By this phase of the level it was pushing on towards 8, but our tabular array switcharoo meant nosotros had fourth dimension to sit down dorsum as well as peruse the dessert menu. It was a fairly lean menu: 3 pocket-sized options as well as ii to a greater extent than 'main' sized choices. Cindy couldn't resist i of the to a greater extent than substantial items - the Martyr's Square (with ashtar, caramelised banana as well as pistachio halva, $10.50). Despite my anti-banana agenda, this looked pretty proficient - rich cream, frail pastry as well as a prissy dusting of pistachio sprinkles. Unfortunately it was all filled alongside squishy, gross banana. Cindy seemed to savor it.
I decided to aim smaller as well as but ordered a pocket-sized slice of pistachio halva ($4). This got lost somewhere inwards the ordering process, but it eventually turned upwards piece Cindy was polishing off the finally of her larger treat. The halva was a picayune on the dry out side for my tastes - I tin encounter how it would operate amend every bit component subdivision of a creamier dessert, but on it's ain it would hold upwards amend shared betwixt two.
We topped things off alongside Lebanese coffees as well as a placidity potable across the route at Atticus Finch. After such a long hold back as well as such a lot of hype (most late winning The Age's Cheap Eats eating seat of the twelvemonth award), it was e'er going to hold upwards difficult for Rumi to mensurate up. Luckily, it went pretty closed to my expectations: corking service, wonderful picayune plates of innovative Middle Eastern cuisine, a delicious vego fatteh as well as a bustling, pleasant atmosphere. The solely downsides: non every bit many vego mains every bit I'd hoped as well as a slight shortage of dessert options. Still, we'll hold upwards dorsum - peculiarly right away we've learned that y'all tin plough upwards early on as well as snaffle i of the non-bookable tables at curt notice.
Edit 02/04/09 - Rumi has moved to a novel premises but a block or thus downward Lygon Street at let on 116.
Address: 132 Lygon Street, Brunswick East
Ph: 9388 8255
Licensed
Prices: Small vego plates - $4 - $11, vego primary - $17.
Anyway, a brace of sometime friends of mine were inwards town on Midweek and, alongside my commons foresight, I rang Rumi on Tuesday level to endeavour to mass a tabular array for the adjacent night. They offered us a place, provided nosotros could hold upwards out past times 7:30. I made the hope without consulting anyone else as well as crossed my fingers that nosotros could all plough upwards past times vi or thus as well as lead keep sufficient fourth dimension to actually explore the menu. Unfortunately, piece I enjoyed i of their Turkish beers, Ben as well as Laura were stuck inwards a cab trying to brand their agency out to Brunswick. By the fourth dimension they arrived, it was good afterward 6:30 as well as I was a fleck tense that nosotros were going to cease upwards spending our repast rushing through the courses. Instead, nosotros opted to deed to i of the outdoor tables - these are unbookable as well as are at that spot for the few walk-ins who accept their chances. Luckily nosotros claimed ours early on as well as could sit down dorsum as well as relax for the residual of the level without worrying close eating rapidly or getting out on time. Excellent! The staff were real helpful throughout all of this - non at all grumpy at us for messing upwards as well as breaking our hope to hold upwards out of their pilus early.
Our waitress was also exceedingly helpful when it came to ordering. We explained our situation: ii vegos, ii non-vegos (who were generally sympathetic to our meat-free agenda) as well as iv reasonably hungry people. After getting the consummate run-down on our options, nosotros settled on iv of the smaller dishes (all vego) to percentage betwixt the iv of us as well as a primary for each brace (Ben as well as Laura couldn't turn down the lamb koresht).
Cafe Zum Zum. Still, that's similar proverb Degrassi doesn't quite mensurate upwards to Press Gang or that Breakfast of Champions isn't every bit funny every bit Catch-22 - it's barely fifty-fifty a criticism.
Next upwards came a brace of plates together - the eggplant m'nazleh (eggplant as well as light-green pepper braised alongside tomato, $10.50) as well as the fried cauliflower (with onions, currants as well as pinenuts, $11). The eggplant was soft as well as mushy - the best accompaniment for the pita breads of all our pocket-sized plates. It was delicately flavoured - lightly spiced as well as a completely delicious. It's quite oily, but that works good inwards pocket-sized doses smeared on bread. The cauliflower was likely the highlight of the evening. Somehow they'd gently cooked the florets until they were a fleck on the soft side as well as and thus charred rapidly to blacken upwards the edges as well as hand them some crunch. The onions, currants as well as pinenuts added a fleck of texture as well as flavour, but the florets could lead keep stood lonely - they were amazing.The finally pocket-sized plate was the roasted carrot salad (with tahini, dukkah as well as parsley, $11). It was the most impressively presented of the plates: a picayune cross-hatched tower of carrot alongside generous sprinklings of dukkah as well as flat-leaf parsley. The carrots were cooked until they were every bit soft every bit they could hold upwards without falling to pieces as well as the carroty flavor was the perfect complement to the tart tahini.Next upwards was our primary - the solely vego primary on the menu, the vegetable fatteh (with pita, chickpeas, silverbeet, parsley as well as tahini yoghurt, topped alongside nuts as well as smoked paprika, $17). Again, this invoked obvious comparisons alongside Zum Zum, but I recall on this occasion Rumi won the day. The crispy pita pieces, divine yoghurt, chickpeas as well as the delicious paprika-y nuts on top. We had no problems polishing this off (and fifty-fifty managed to percentage a few spoonfuls alongside our meat-eating friends).By this phase of the level it was pushing on towards 8, but our tabular array switcharoo meant nosotros had fourth dimension to sit down dorsum as well as peruse the dessert menu. It was a fairly lean menu: 3 pocket-sized options as well as ii to a greater extent than 'main' sized choices. Cindy couldn't resist i of the to a greater extent than substantial items - the Martyr's Square (with ashtar, caramelised banana as well as pistachio halva, $10.50). Despite my anti-banana agenda, this looked pretty proficient - rich cream, frail pastry as well as a prissy dusting of pistachio sprinkles. Unfortunately it was all filled alongside squishy, gross banana. Cindy seemed to savor it.I decided to aim smaller as well as but ordered a pocket-sized slice of pistachio halva ($4). This got lost somewhere inwards the ordering process, but it eventually turned upwards piece Cindy was polishing off the finally of her larger treat. The halva was a picayune on the dry out side for my tastes - I tin encounter how it would operate amend every bit component subdivision of a creamier dessert, but on it's ain it would hold upwards amend shared betwixt two.We topped things off alongside Lebanese coffees as well as a placidity potable across the route at Atticus Finch. After such a long hold back as well as such a lot of hype (most late winning The Age's Cheap Eats eating seat of the twelvemonth award), it was e'er going to hold upwards difficult for Rumi to mensurate up. Luckily, it went pretty closed to my expectations: corking service, wonderful picayune plates of innovative Middle Eastern cuisine, a delicious vego fatteh as well as a bustling, pleasant atmosphere. The solely downsides: non every bit many vego mains every bit I'd hoped as well as a slight shortage of dessert options. Still, we'll hold upwards dorsum - peculiarly right away we've learned that y'all tin plough upwards early on as well as snaffle i of the non-bookable tables at curt notice.
Edit 02/04/09 - Rumi has moved to a novel premises but a block or thus downward Lygon Street at let on 116.
Address: 132 Lygon Street, Brunswick East
Ph: 9388 8255
Licensed
Prices: Small vego plates - $4 - $11, vego primary - $17.
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