September 19, 2010: Bodhi Inwards The Green Iii

visited Bodhi inward the Park the previous day, Toby agitated for a yum cha watch on Sunday. (We didn't protestation likewise hard.) In spite of the sizable breakfast nether his belt, Toby demonstrated a near-insatiable appetite at Bodhi. In fact, all 6 of us seemed to uncovering an extra tum for circular afterward circular of chopstick-challenging morsels.

With plates costing $5.50-$8.50 each it's non cheap, but it is a fabulous indulgence. I'll allow the pics create the remainder of the talking here; K has a lilliputian to a greater extent than to tell at In The Mood For Noodles.

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You tin read nearly our really starting fourth dimension watch to Bodhi inward the Park here.

January 9, 2011: Monk Bodhi Dharma Ii

The view of Melbourne ex-pat in addition to vegan twitter fiend Not Josh to our fine metropolis prompted K from In the Mood for Noodles to conform a brunch veg*n twitter meet-up at Monk Bodhi Dharma. Luckily, alone K & Toby, Cindy in addition to I in addition to Josh joined inwards - whatever to a greater extent than in addition to we'd accept been hard-pressed to squelch into the tiny infinite that MBD occupies.

Having tried the much-raved-about French toast final time, Cindy opted for 1 of their other sugariness options - the Dharma Banana ($9), warmed house-made banana bread, served alongside lemon ricotta. This was a reasonable version of banana breadstuff but everything was very, really sweet, pregnant this didn't quite alive upwards to the standards of the French toast.

I couldn't resist the specials board, going for the Balinese soup, alongside viscid rice in addition to chilli jam, sweetcorn in addition to lemongrass ($14.50).

This was outstanding - peculiarly alongside bonus chilli jam from Toby. The soup had a prissy lemongrass flavour, some sweetness from the corn in addition to a delicious oily slick of chilli all through it. The viscid rice was a prissy improver - giving the dish plenty essence to fill upwards me upwards in addition to providing a fleck of textural variety.

Monk Bodhi Dharma accept shot towards the function past times of my brekkie listing - it's dandy to accept a veg-place that focuses on brunch nutrient in addition to serves dandy coffees in addition to teas. I'm pretty certain Josh went dorsum to Vancouver wishing that MBD had a North American branch.

Read almost our get-go view to MBD here.

Since nosotros visited inwards November, Monk Bodhi Dharma has been given the thumbs upwards past times In the Mood for Noodles, Veg inwards the west, Tenth Day Roasters, Nutmeg's Cafe, A niggling blood-red ribbon.

Bodhi

May 27 as well as 29, 2015

Every June for the past times viii years, I've jetted off overseas for the biggest perk of my job, an annual international conference. This twelvemonth the setting was Munich - amount of sunshine, giant beer gardens as well as beautiful one-time buildings. The traditional Bavarian diet is non peculiarly sympathetic to vegetarians (and vegans would actually struggle). I ate a lot of creamy mushrooms as well as cheesy potatoes. Luckily, in that location are a decent set out of vego places inward the metropolis as well as I had a few complimentary meals to explore. My master copy focus was Bodhi, a well-reviewed house that takes the traditional High German pub vibe as well as vegans everything up.

My get-go see was an early on dinner (staving off jetlag every bit best every bit possible) as well as I sat exterior inward the sunshine amongst a tall wheat beer watching most of the metropolis biking past. 

The bill of fare they gave me was inward German, as well as I puzzled it out every bit best I could although I'm certain the staff would last happy to interpret if y'all wanted to a greater extent than details (I've simply used google interpret below). The grilled tempeh inward black plum sauce amongst millet/hemp dumplings, roasted tomatoes as well as sauteed zucchini (19.90€ AU$29) sounded interesting, every bit did the lupin fillet amongst a mustard crust, blood-red vino shallots, broccoli as well as mashed potatoes (16.90€ AU$24.70), but I decided to larn for the most German-sounding repast on the menu: the crispy soy steak amongst a black beer sauce, blood-red cabbage as well as spud dumpling (14.90€ $21.80). I threw inward a side of chilli cheese nuggets (3.90€ $5.70)  simply because I could.

Look at that triptych of amazingness! The soy steak was crisped upwards amongst a variety of cornflake batter, swimming inward a rich beer gravy. The spud dumpling had something impressively cheesy most it, as well as the blood-red cabbage was soft as well as tangy. The piddling cheesy nuggets were completely unnecessary afterward the giant plate of heavy High German food, but they were then corking I couldn't halt myself. After 25 hours of travel, a litre of beer as well as all that food, I barely managed to larn far dwelling earlier falling asleep.

After a amount hateful solar daytime of meetings on Saturday, I had a spare morn on Lord's Day to produce around to a greater extent than exploring. First stop: Bodhi's weekend brunch.

This fourth dimension I parked inside, to a greater extent than oftentimes than non then I could stare longingly at the buffet table. From memory, the brunch cost was 18.90€ (AU$27.60), which bought access to an amazing spread of breads, pastries, spreads, salads, desserts as well as 3 hot dishes: pancakes, scrambled tofu as well as a tomato-y spud bake.

The scrambled tofu was in all probability my highlight, amongst chunks of smoked tofu dotted throughout the scramble. The pretzel was great, but they're available everywhere, then I in all probability should direct maintain focussed to a greater extent than on the staff of life as well as dips or grabbed myself a plate of pancakes. Instead, I found myself fading afterward my salad plate, fifty-fifty afterward a decent loving cup of filter coffee. The house gradually filled upwards betwixt 10:30 as well as 11:30 when I moved on, then if y'all were coming amongst a group, I'd recommend making a booking. The staff are lovely, happily speaking English linguistic communication to monolinguists similar me as well as making me experience super welcome fifty-fifty every bit a solo traveller.

I spent the residual of the weak pining for to a greater extent than Bodhi - sadly our conference venue was likewise far away for me to sneak off at lunchtime as well as all of our nights were booked upwards amongst beer-garden-related shenanigans. It's a wonderful house - definitely worth stopping past times if you've got a hateful solar daytime or 2 inward Munich.

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There aren't likewise many spider web log posts most Bodhi that I could notice - Living inward Germany is the exclusively i inward English, acre in that location are positive (if a flake garbled thank y'all to Google Translate) reviews on Wie ein frischer Veganer conk Welt erlebt, Muc.Veg, Claudi Goes Vegan, Munchen Blogger, Prostmahlzeit as well as tine taufrisch.

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Bodhi
Ligsalzstrasse 23, Schwanthalerhohe, Munich
+49 89 41142458
menus (in German): starters, salads as well as pasta, mains (and another), dessert
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Accessibility: There are a duad of steps upwards on entry, to a reasonably spacious interior. The toilets are gendered as well as on the narrow side. There's amount tabular array service.

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I did grapple to cheque out a duad of other veggie places during the week: Max Pett is Munich's most famous veggie establishment, a centrally-located, vegan as well as alcohol-free eating theatre amongst a wide-ranging menu. It was a welcome root of salads as well as vegetables amidst the regular High German food, including this fantabulous (but badly photographed) palak tofu (15.80€ AU$23).

I also stopped past times Tian for luncheon - the 2 course of report laid repast of carrot soup amongst bulghur as well as a romaine lettuce salad amongst hummus, hazelnuts as well as herbs was fresh as well as healthy, but non something you'd exit of y'all agency for.

Munich's a lovely metropolis - good worth a detour from the veg*n Mecca of Berlin if you've got a few spare days. Beautiful historic buildings, lovely parks as well as around jaw-dropping Alpine scenery a curt hateful solar daytime trip out of town - around non-food highlights are inward the slide-show below.

Monk Bodhi Dharma Iii

July 13, 2012

Once dorsum at domicile it's ever wonderful first, to settle inwards at domicile (with the cat!) as well as second, to run into the people as well as places nosotros love. In the latter example nosotros began past times booking dinner at Monk Bodhi Dharma amongst the Moody Noodles. MBD's developed a reputation for first-class coffee, tea, as well as brunch as well as for almost a twelvemonth at in i lawsuit they've also been offering dinner on Fri nights. The card varies from calendar week to calendar week but yous tin await it to last almost alone vegan as well as gluten-free, amongst many raw options.

Michael arrived early on as well as passed the fourth dimension amongst a blackberry smoothie based on cashew milk ($9.50).

Once I'd settled inwards nosotros shared the Sweet Republic of Chile Love ($12), a crunchy chile filled amongst a macadamia as well as sundried love apple tree cream as well as topped amongst chile oil, augmented amongst fresh mango as well as a lovely pickley cucumber salad.

I was a piffling wary of a mid-winter raw main, but the cannelloni ($22) was surprisingly hearty. The zucchini 'pasta' didn't produce much for me, but the minced-nut love apple tree sauce as well as broccoli-'cheddar' filling were impressive.

The Mexican enchilada plate ($24) was to a greater extent than conventional though no less tasty. The corn tortillas were stuffed amongst all mode of vegetables as well as topped amongst thick dollops of guacamole; I ate to a greater extent than than my part of the accompanying salsa.

Monk Bodhi Dharma had a spectacular finale inwards shop for us - field the savoury dishes were good, the desserts were the materials of fine dining. The raw white chocolate cheesecake ($14.50) was delicately flavoured, ready off nicely past times a smear of tangy raspberry as well as crest of dehydrated apple. It was at its best amongst only a piffling of the caramel sauce.

Monk's raw 'Snickers' ($16.50) is much bolder, as well as maybe best suited for sharing betwixt two. The fudgy peanut nougat base, salted caramel as well as raw chocolate are taken correct over the top amongst metallic element decorations as well as a shot drinking glass of to a greater extent than chocolate to pour over. It's an incredible mistaken but chop-chop becomes heavy as well as rich, as well as the nut-based raw vanilla cream offers no respite.

Monk Bodhi Dharma's Fri nighttime card is somewhat expensive as well as really rich, as well as it feels a piffling unfortunate to last eating such exceptional nutrient inwards such cramped conditions. What they're whipping upwards amongst is exciting as well as quite unique inwards Melbourne; I'll facial expression frontwards to trying to a greater extent than or less other permutation inwards a few months.

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Monk Bodhi Dharma

raise of 202 Carlisle St, Balaclava

9534 7250

Fri nighttime entrees $12, mains $20-24, desserts $14.50-16.50

www.monkbodhidharma.com.au

Accessibility: MBD has a narrow entry amongst a small-scale footstep as well as really cramped interior; most seats are small-scale heavy backless stools.We ordered at the tabular array as well as paid at a medium-low counter.

November 2, 2010: Monk Bodhi Dharma

It's rare that a vegetarian cafe generates buzz with the omnivore set, but Monk Bodhi Dharma has done only that (see, again, an extensive link-list towards the bottom of the post). This is most probable due to their java chops - it's some other 3rd moving ridge articulation with a fancy edible bean rotation in addition to fifty-fifty fancier laid of java training methods.

It's consistently crowded, in addition to densely designed at that. I induce got rarely felt this cramped piece eating out, having to exit my spot in addition to shuffle circular the cafe inward companionship to allow some other customers depart. BYO collegial attitude!

However Monk Bodhi Dharma has some other features that endear it to this finicky breakfaster - an extensive tea card in addition to a consummate lack of eggs. Yes, folks, they induce got a page-long breakfast card where the solely affair that's poached is a pear. I was spoilt for pick - the cereals had luscious-sounding fruit accompaniments, toast came with beans or bruschetta toppings or kicked-up avocado in addition to the ricotta hotcakes were pesto-topped savoury temptations.

I tried out their soy chai in addition to it was non solely 1 of the cutest ones I've been served closed to Melbourne; it was 1 of the tastiest in addition to best prepared.

Michael ate the Yucatan "Peasant" Beans ($14.50) - wearisome cooked chile beans served with feta, toasted sourdough in addition to household made chile jam. Michael flora the presentation awkward - at that spot was no room to slather the beans on the toast, in addition to a fork wasn't the best tool for scooping upwardly such a runny sauce - but he spoke highly of the flavours.

Ray in addition to Gingerlee's French-inspired toasts every bit a personal favourite (all the ameliorate that it's egg-free in addition to vegan-friendly!).

Having heard practiced things well-nigh their cakes, Michael ordered 1 to takeaway - it was an enormous iced wedge of cakey brownie goodness, with a squeamish java kick.

Service was reasonably efficient given the demands of the crowded space; some staff were notably to a greater extent than cheerful than others.  I'd similar to attempt to a greater extent than from the real appealing card but it's rare that nosotros larn inward across town; I haven't sampled plenty from nearby Las Chicas or the Galleon either.  There appears to hold upwardly no terminate of southsiders frequenting these slap-up cafes, though, in addition to I await forwards to at to the lowest degree experiencing a few to a greater extent than of their dishes vicariously online.

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Here are many other blogged accounts of Monk Bodhi Dharma: 1001 Dinners, 1001 Nights, vegan well-nigh town, In the Mood for Noodles (twice), What's For Tea, Melbourne Coffee Review, Pocket Carnival, Eat More Vegies, The Belly Rules the Mind, Melbourne Cafes Photo Blog, Eat in addition to Be Merry, Easy every bit (vegan) Pie, Uproar

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After breakfast, nosotros continued to explore Balaclava.  K recommended a see to Rishon Foods, a specialty kosher shop - inward their efforts to avoid mixing meat in addition to milk, the Jewish community induce got developed many vegan-friendly products.  Rishon has shelves total of vegan sweets in addition to freezers well-stocked with dairy-free icecreams, a few faux-meats in addition to the like.  For us non-vegans, the collection of rennet-free cheeses is impressive too.

We enjoyed observing the mix of quondam in addition to novel along Carlisle St, picking upwardly some bagels from Glick's in addition to checking out an izakaya card earlier heading into Coles, where some other wealth of kosher specialty products awaited.  It's a facet of Melbourne we've non actually experienced earlier in addition to 1 I'd for sure similar to revisit.  As Carla wryly noted, this is the southside that us northsiders are allowed to like.

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Monk Bodhi Dharma

rear of 202 Carlisle St, Balaclava

9534 7250

unlicensed

veg breakfasts $7-15.50

www.monkbodhidharma.com.au

Rishon Foods

23 William St, Balaclava

9527 5142

www.rishonfoods.com

Glick's Cakes & Bagels

330 Carlisle St, Balaclava

9527 2198

www.glicks.com.au

A Spell Of Sydney

September 14-15, 2014

I constitute myself inwards Dubbo for move terminal weekend. This meant flight through Sydney, together with gave me an excuse to pass xvi sneaky hours at that topographic point on my agency dwelling menage earlier getting dorsum to my job. I arrived inwards fourth dimension for a 9pm dinner on Lord's Day together with had shrewdly stationed myself inside walking distance of Yulli's. Though their website says they're opened upwards 'til belatedly a waiter at nowadays informed me that they'd live on closing at 10pm.  No biggie.

The carte du jour at this vegetarian bar ever looks good, together with had me wishing for a veg*n crew to percentage with. As it was, I kept the beer battered haloumi skewers ($14.50) all to myself. Although typically salty, the cheese was unusually fluffy together with a piddling sweet, similar something from a fair. I liked the sourness of the accompanying pomegranate together with apple tree salsa, but the pomegranate's deadening colouring textile hinted that it was good out of season.

I had my oculus on the chocolate cheesecake for dessert, but no-one bothered to clear my plate away inwards the twenty minutes that I lingered. Having a vegetarian bar gave Sydney an border for a while, but at nowadays amongst Smith & Daughters inwards Melbourne there's no to a greater extent than FOMO for me.

(You tin read close our offset catch to Yulli's here.)

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On Mon I represent my fine art gallery catch roughly a sunny yum cha tiffin at Bodhi inwards the Park. Yum cha is likely some other repast ameliorate shared, but I did relish beingness beholden to no-one's tastes but my own. I made a mess of some tofu pockets stuffed amongst shredded vegetables, together with after noticed soul sensibly tipping the curry satay sauce into the pockets, instead of clumsily dipping the pockets into the saucer.

My biggest achievement was polishing off 3 rolls stuffed amongst mock prawns together with mashed potato, fried amongst a crackly toasted sesame top. There was no agency I could direct maintain on the BBQ buns or Peking mock duck dumplings that circulated shortly after. I finished upwards amongst some less than fresh pancakes filled amongst mango together with Tofutti cream cheese, non an sense I require to repeat. With a pot of dark-green tea, the neb came to $28 - a flake exorbitant, I thought, but a bloody gorgeous agency to pass slack-off Monday.

(You tin too read close one, two, three of our previous trips to Bodhi inwards the Park.)

Devouring Vegan Sydney

We latterly spent a weekend inwards Sydney amongst the sole role of eating.  Of course of written report the best eating normally happens amongst adept companionship as well as nosotros had that too, sharing our tables amongst a revolving shape of Melbourne- as well as Sydney-based vegans.  K as well as Toby were amongst us all the means as well as betwixt us we've blogged the heck out of it.  Here's a run-down of where nosotros ate:

Friday

• We shared plates, frustrations as well as an elegant dessert at Yulli's

Saturday

• Newtown's Naked Espresso proved the perfect starting fourth dimension to a morn of eating, coming together as well as greeting.  The carte du jour was generally savoury but K was onto the buckwheat pancakes.
• Dessert was taken where as well as whenever possible; normally at Vegans Choice Grocery
• Bodhi inwards the Park set on an impressive late, lite lunch
• Peace Harmony inspired us to construct our ain banquet as well as mock a lot of meat

Sunday

• We stumbled as well as grumbled our means to Bondi for a Funky Pie brunch
• Vegans Choice tempted us dorsum for to a greater extent than sweets
• We ordered to a greater extent than than nosotros idea we'd always ask at Bodhi in the Park.  But yum cha oft has that effect, right?

March 16-18, 2007: Sydney

While Melbourne's Food together with Wine Festival began inward a haze of car exhaust, Michael together with I skipped over to Sydney for the weekend. Our excuse was to celebrate the appointment of our friend Brent to the lovely Jamee, but nosotros also flora fourth dimension to meet a pair of the city's other sights together with restaurants.

Our starting fourth dimension memorable eating sense was at Chilli Chimney. There's aught to distinguish it from countless other Indian restaurants together with takeaways inward the inner-city suburbs except for our fabulously friendly waiter. More than merely reciting the evening's specials, he took dandy please inward explaining that he'd never seen such eastward Indian dishes on whatever carte du jour together with described their contents inward meticulous detail. Michael together with I were correspondingly delighted that the specials were vegetarian together with consequently ordered them. On the left are deep-fried "chops", patties of moist grated carrot together with beetroot, along amongst a host of spices that I can't remember. On the correct is a dish of cabbage kofta amongst garlic sauce. It was wonderful, together with if I were a local I would own got urged that enthusiastic waiter to innovate them to the regular menu.

For Sabbatum morn I had booked us a tabular array at Bodhi inward the Park. This is a vegan yum-cha eating theater nestled inward Cook & Phillip Park, the grazing vegetarian's dream: at whatever ordinary yum cha it's slowly to larn the staff's to the lowest degree favourite client equally yous inspect every dish for pork mince and/or meat stock. It's a existent process to greedily own got a plate of anything that looks appetising, together with greedy I was! Take a await what Michael together with I called 'breakfast':

curry buns

satay salad

spring rolls with
sweet together with sour sauce

soft edible bean curd

mushroom balls

fruit salad

passionfruit jelly: don't forget to choice upwardly a spoon from the waitress, 'cause it's mighty awkward trying to purpose chopsticks equally I did!

Others own got complained most the patchy service, but nosotros were pretty good attended to. With common views, sunny skies together with a few cute children to sentry at neighbouring tables, I can't mean value of a to a greater extent than pleasant means to sentry a Sabbatum morn larn afternoon.

Other highlights included catching upwardly amongst Jackson together with Emma, friends from Brisbane who were also visiting for the appointment celebrations, together with seeing the shortlisted entries for the 2007 Archibald, Wynne together with Sulman Prizes at the Art Gallery of NSW (just a brusque walk across the grass from Bodhi).

If you'd similar to read to a greater extent than most vegetarian eating inward Sydney, I'd recommend checking out the Veggie Friendly blog: the front end page is temporarily filled amongst NYC reviews but cheque out the archives, listed yesteryear city, for lots of reviews.