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.

Sadhana Kitchen

February 2, 2013

Before nosotros headed to N2 for gelato, Cindy as well as I had traipsed all over the Sydney CBD trying to notice an Iku shop that would sell us a lite luncheon to justify dessert. Turns out that they're all unopen on the weekends, leaving us alongside no choice but to swap things around: dessert offset as well as luncheon second. With a charge of H2O ice cream on board as well as a 12 course of report dinner ahead of us, nosotros knew nosotros had to aim for something healthy. Enter Sadhana Kitchen - a raw vegan cafe based inward a yoga studio that was conveniently located betwixt Newtown develop station as well as our pre-dinner nap.

Being both a raw-vegan cafe as well as a yoga place, Sadhana was e'er going to soap on the spirituality pretty thick - you'll take away to skim past times the 'prana' as well as 'chi' as well as ignore to a greater extent than or less of the flakier wellness claims. But it's worth it, because the card is slap-up - loads of salubrious juices as well as smoothies (healthy, non cleansing or able to gear upward stamina), coffee, heaps of herbal teas (which had me wondering - are coffee/tea technically raw?) as well as a whole pile of breakfast as well as luncheon dishes. Plus sweets!

Cindy perused the breakfast options, passing upward the banana kokosnoot pancakes (with 'superfood caramel sauce', any that is, $15.50) as well as settling for the Sadhana Kitchen granola (buckwheat, goji berries, cacao nibs, crushed walnut as well as shredded kokosnoot alongside almond/rice/soy/oat milk, $9.50, or $14.50 for a large bowl). Cindy went alongside almond milk on her granola, which is 50c extra.

They charge the granola upward alongside fresh berries as well as banana, thus you lot can't genuinely run into the mix itself above. It was lite as well as crunchy, alongside enough of chew to it (even alongside the milk on it), as well as Cindy was peculiarly happy to larn the distinct sense of savour of the cacao nibs shining through.

I weighed upward the raw pad thai ($15.50) or the lasagne ($15.50), but eventually decided to endeavor the tejas tacos (served alongside walnut mince, salsa, guacamole as well as house-fermented sour cream, $15.50).

Of course, they hold off goose egg similar tacos. But the walnut mince as well as gaucamole combo were fantastic - the rich, spicy 'mince' as well as the cooling avo, alongside a mild salsa as well as the intriguing 'sour cream', which was quite pasty, as well as most probable based on cashews. I was genuinely impressed - fifty-fifty the salad dressing inward the middle worked alongside all the other components. I was likewise a fleck worried - this 'light' luncheon was genuinely pretty substantial, I was glad our dinner booking wasn't until 8.

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Sadhana Kitchen has been raved most past times Dear Asparagus, Saya's Soulful, what create you lot swallow then!?, Not Quite Nigella as well as Live to Eat Life. 

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Sadhana Kitchen
76a Wilford Street, Enmore (in Jivamukti Yoga)
(02) 9516 1334

breakfasts $9.50-$15.50, lunches $10.50-$15.50

http://www.sadhanakitchen.com/

Accessibility: There is a apartment entryway, into a pretty crowded interior. Ordering as well as payment is at a depression counter. We didn't view the toilets.

Bloodwood

February 3, 2013

Bloodwood is some other hip venue brought to Michael's attending via The Unbearable Lightness of Being Hungry. Though I intend he would've liked a amount nighttime of tapas, cocktails, dim lighting too pounding music, nosotros made produce amongst a sly dessert (and an always slier vino for Michael) on a Dominicus night.

The Bloodwood dessert pick ($25) was a suitable sampler. For now, it's composed of:

• a sugariness too sour hot mess of pavlova amongst berries too passionfruit chiboust,
• a trifle of sturdy pound cake amongst champagne anglaise, port vino jelly, yoghurt mascarpone too non quite plenty cherries, and
• a rich wedge of crunchy-smooth chocolate, caramel too peanut torte amongst a fluffy banana mousse too to a greater extent than peanuts.

They were all eminently pleasing if non surprising.

Bloodwood was clearly inward hot demand, amongst many people willingly waiting for a tabular array inward the eating theatre section, or folding themselves unopen to tiny bar slice of furniture that could only barely comprise their shared plates. On the pull of Bloodwood's desserts I'd accept my house the queue, at to the lowest degree once.

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Bloodwood's vegetarian options induce got been explored to a greater extent than thoroughly on The Unbearable Lightness of Being Hungry too Veg amongst Edge. 

The balance of the bill of fare has been enjoyed on Restaurant Reviews, The Empty Fridge, From Our Home, Eat Chat Laugh, Nooschi, Jasmyne-Tea, Conquering King Street, Newtown, A Foodie's nighttime out :), Connoisseur inward Training, Beyond Bourke Street, Nutmeg's Cafe, The Adventures of Miss Piggy, Simon Food Favourites, raD fooD, Saya's Soulful, Food, booze too shoes, Richard Elliot.

The Hand that Rocks the Ladle likes the venue but non the food, too at that topographic point are other mixed experiences on to gustatory modality is divine, apparently they're unisex.