Cafe Giraffe

Update 27/1/2019: Cafe Giraffe is permanently closed.

November 22, 2012

I noticed Cafe Giraffe piece flicking through the Cheap Eats take away a few weeks agone as well as was surprised that I'd never heard of it before. It seems I get got been willfully ignoring it, equally I've walked by its sign several times earlier as well as in that place is no shortage of weblog reviews online (see link listing below). Unlike many of the city's lunchtime options, it's opened upwards until 11pm as well as on Saturdays which makes it pleasingly accessible to us employees of the northern 'burbs.

Cafe Giraffe feels nigh similar a plant nursery amongst adult-sized article of furniture - the white walls as well as wooden shelves concur pastel ornaments as well as curiosities, books as well as board games. G-I-R-A-F-F-E is spelled  instructively across the wall, as well as the menus fit loopy printing amongst coloring pictures for many dishes.

The options are unchallenging as well as cheap - nachos as well as dumplings, lasagne, meatballs, pasta as well as risotto at $8-12 per plate. There are no particular markings for veg*ns as well as coeliacs but it's pretty slow to topographic point the vegetarian as well as gluten-free items from their descriptions; vegans mightiness ask to quiz the staff. Michael's chilli spinach risotto ($12) was elementary as well as nada special.

I chose the boldest as well as priciest meal, a cheese fondue ($8) amongst grilled mushrooms ($3.50) as well as pretzels ($3) as well as had a lot of fun amongst it. It's creamy as well as savoury without excessive richness... that is, until y'all (OK, I) dip a soup spoon inwards as well as get got it all likewise far. Best stick amongst the rule dippers.

I lacked the childish audacity to follow upwards amongst a chocolate fondue (into which y'all tin dip fruit, cake as well as marshmallows) but did uncovering room for a glutinous appointment pudding amongst dear walnuts ($8.50). It was passable at best.

Many of the customers some us seemed to a greater extent than interested inwards a loving cup of tea as well as a catch-up amongst friends. Some extended their visits amongst dessert or a card game; few ordered a meal. Cafe Giraffe's main appeal is that it's a calm as well as relatively spacious refuge inwards a gobble-it-down-and-get-out city. The staff nosotros encountered were really sweet. Most of the carte du jour is pretty unmemorable, but I'd larn dorsum for fondue amongst a friend.

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Cafe Giraffe scores positive reviews on Heartshapesandcrosses, String of Events, new international students, A Photo is Worth a Thousand Words, food.loves.my.mouth., Dessert four U, EAT AND BE MERRY, FOR TOMORROW WE DIE(T), Drew's Travel Foodprints, VCLUXE, Flagrant Food Fawning, Mel's Food Journey, Cakey Crumbles, much love, That Beanie Kid, The Snail Inn, A Miniature Take On Food, flower inwards the wilderness, Aveline Gunawan, Prililicious as well as Beansprout's Cafe; as well as therefore negative judgements on Gluttony Gluttony as well as tirache. There are photos without critique on Hey Sunflowers, Floating Thoughts, curing cravings as well as Open.

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Cafe Giraffe
302 Little Lonsdale St, Melbourne
9640 0889
facebook page

Accessibility: There are a few steps upwards on entry, from retentiveness the interior is relatively apartment as well as tables are generously spaced. Orders as well as payment are made at a low-ish counter. We didn't see the toilets.

Cafe Lua Iii

Update 27/1/2019: Cafe Lua has permanently closed.

March 24, 2012

Cafe Lua has larn our go-to pick when nosotros desire to catch a quick, local breakfast. The carte is extensive too interesting plenty to perish along us from getting bored, the staff are ever lovely too the cafe itself is fashionable too spacious.

This fourth dimension around, Cindy too I both striking upward eggy options – I had the corn cake stack amongst avocado, roast tomato, mushrooms (instead of the criterion bacon), coriander pesto too a poached egg ($16). The corn cake had a nicely fried outside too was filled amongst crunchy corn kernels too capsicum pieces – it was an first-class base of operations for the pesto, poached egg too perfect half-avocado to endure mushed together on transcend of. I fifty-fifty ate one-half the tomato plant earlier palming the balance off on Cindy.

Cindy built her ain breakfast – a elementary combo of fried eggs too avocado on corn toast ($11.50). The eggs were a flake runnier than she likes them (although they’d get got been perfect for me), but otherwise she was pretty happy amongst her rare foray into the savoury side of the breakfast menu.

The give-and-take is manifestly getting out at that topographic point almost Cafe Lua - yesteryear the fourth dimension nosotros left they were packed to the rafters, amongst a steady flow of people dropping inwards for takeaway coffee. It’s swell to run across an unpretentious too consistent cafe similar this becoming a success – let’s simply promise nosotros don’t halt upward having to queue for a table.

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Read almost our source 2 visits to Cafe Lua here too here. There's been a few to a greater extent than positive reviews since our end see - banking corporation lucifer out Green Gourmet Giraffe too Her Lifestyle Project.

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Cafe Lua
Cnr Elgin too Drummond Streets, Carlton
9348 1118
veg dishes $6 - $15
http://www.cafelua.com

Accessibility: There's no stride every bit you lot come upward inwards too the cafe is spacious too well-lit (although things larn a flake crowded when it fills upward amongst people waiting for takeaways). Ordering takes house at the table, amongst payment at a low-ish counter. We nevertheless haven't checked out the toilets.

Ceres Cafe Iv

January 25, 2014

Though we've visited several times, it seems that nosotros haven't blogged nearly CERES since a flurry of three posts inwards 2008! We stopped yesteryear the rambling outdoor cafe for a Sat breakfast earlier raiding their marketplace produce, organic groceries together with nursery, together with nosotros figured it was fourth dimension for an update.

To hold out honest, it doesn't seem as if the carte has changed a lot since they introduced the Indonesian eggs. It's organic-focused together with hippy-ish: free-range eggs together with sourdough toast comes alongside hummus, beans or beetroot relish, there's quinoa inwards the salad together with the display illustration is total of muffins. Vegan together with gluten-free options are well-marked together with abundant.

CERES cafe does seem to get got streamlined their ordering arrangement a little. Now nosotros queue to house our orders rather than hoping desperately to grab the involvement of staff from the haphazardly arranged  tables. Our nutrient together with hot drinks were prepared together with delivered promptly together with the staff looked less harried, fifty-fifty adding a grinning or dropping a darlin' along the way.

Michael went dorsum for the vegan adaptation of the Indonesian eggs ($15.60), a deceptively filling plate of chocolate-brown rice piled alongside a herb-heavy salad, soy-marinated smoked tofu together with a generous side of sambal.

I tried the as vegan-friendly pumpkin, tofu together with miso coil alongside a side of salad together with love apple tree kasundi ($10.20). The filling was a niggling bland but the kasundi laid it right, together with I was mightily relieved to larn flaky golden pastry together with non the cardboardy materials of another co-op cafes. CERES besides larn laissez passer on marks for a lightly dressed light-green leafage side salad total of sunflower together with sesame seeds.

The exclusively challenge of counter ordering is resisting the sugariness treats on display. I was compelled to queue in i lawsuit again for a vegan doughnut ($4.50) together with concluding drinkable (soy apartment white for Michael, $3.80, together with dandelion latte for me, $4.50). The doughnut must've been sourdough-based, which worked good alongside the raw saccharide crust.

CERES cafe is a lovely spot on a summertime solar daytime alongside reliable, veg-friendly food; all the amend if you lot get got children and/or dogs inwards tow!

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You tin besides read about one, two, three of our previous visits to CERES cafe. Since therefore veg blogs Green Gourmet Giraffe, In The Mood For Noodles get got posted prissy things nearly it, although CERES mistakenly served coeliac K glutenous toast.

Elsewhere there's been positive feedback on little eats, Melbourne Cafes Photo Blog, Purple Party People, The Hungry Grub, Globe Troffer together with http://www.ceres.org.au/cafe/cafe.html

Accessibility: The cafe is opened upward air together with rattling spacious. Access to the medium-height counter is via one-half a dozen steps or a narrow together with uneven path. We grabbed menus, ordered together with paid at the counter, therefore our nutrient was brought out to us. We haven't visited the toilets, though Johanna GGG reported that they're composting!

Steam Junkies

August 1, 2015

Last weekend nosotros headed upward to Florence St for a slow breakfast earlier running some errands unopen to Brunswick. We've had one-half an optic on Green Gourmet Giraffe.

The odds for vegetarians are good, amongst 13 of the twenty-two regular card dishes boasting a V (and almost one-half the card including a gluten-free friendly *). Looking beyond the apparently toast, though, there's non a lot designed for vegans. Poached eggs together with cheeses abound, together with there's also a curious preponderance of quinoa.

Michael's plate captured their poached eggs-on-superfoods style, starting amongst quinoa toast together with a mound of garlic sauteed kale together with spinach, dotted amongst dried cranberries, almond flakes together with goats curd amongst a twain of asparagus spears also ($16). His java together with eggs met amongst the high standards expected of inner-north cafes, together with he liked the agency the cranberries broke upward the light-green theme.

Budgeting on a two-meal day, I made my root 1 a haloumi burger ($13.50). The cheese was rolled inward sesame seeds together with 1 of the lightest I've encountered, amongst barely a squeak to live on had, non to advert voluminous! Really, facial expression at it. There was double the cheese this burger needed. But instead of playing haloumi Jenga, I elected to swallow this a one-half at a time, root amongst the relish-smeared brioche peak together with instant amongst the tomato, mayo together with rocket. The tangy dressings together with side salad of rocket, cherry tomatoes, apple tree together with radish were my ideal complements to the cheese, together with I capped it all off amongst a frothy freshly squeezed orangish juice ($6).

With its communal table, wheel racks together with polished concrete floor, Steam Junkies does everything you'd hold off of a Brunswick cafe. Their egg-and-quinoa card is a mite less predictable, together with the haloumi burger is unforgettable - they could good accept their niche.

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Bloggers accept been unanimously positive nearly Steam Junkies - see swain vegetarian Green Gourmet Giraffe together with omnivorous bloggers A Place Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Day, makelovetotheworld together with CHOMP AND SLURP.

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Steam Junkies
1/7-9 Florence St, Brunswick
9973 4309
regular menu, specials
facebook page

Accessibility: The entry is apartment together with broad amongst a sliding door. Tables are generously spaced, amongst a mixture of depression backless stools, benches together with slightly rickety chairs (a twain of infants' high chairs are also available). We didn't see the toilets, but observed some other client borrowing a cardinal from staff to access them exterior the cafe. We ordered at the tabular array together with paid at a low-ish counter.

Tricycle Cafe

January 20, 2014

We had plenty fourth dimension on our in conclusion Hobart forenoon to wander over to Salamanca together with finally see i of the city's most well-regarded cafes. Tricycle is hidden away a fleck downwards i of Salamanca's picayune alleyways - they've got a few tables together with a sign out on the street, then it's pretty clear where you lot require to plough in. It's quite modest and, on the forenoon afterward MOFO finished, quite busy - nosotros were lucky to snag a tabular array together with watched a few groups forced to wait.

The bill of fare is pretty straightforward: there's baked eggs, eggs on toast, a breakfast trifle, beans or around toasties equally good equally 2 or iii rotating specials (on our see including a huevos rancheros, $16, together with a veggie dark-brown rice congee, $11.50). Cindy ordered the tertiary of the specials: organic avocado with goats curd, toasted seeds together with greens ($16). As you lot tin give the axe see, they didn't skimp on the greens! Somewhere nether all those leaves were 2 pieces of adept lineament toast, with plenty of avo together with cheese spread on peak together with a sprinkling of sunflower together with pumpkin seeds. 

I ordered off the regular bill of fare - tricycle chilli beans with feta, pickle, coriander together with sourdough ($14).

I was glad to discover that Tricycle's chilli beans genuinely packed a fleck of a spicy punch. The coriander together with tangy pickled onion added a few to a greater extent than layers to the dish, together with the salty feta rounded it out good - it's an first-class rendition of a pretty criterion cafe brekkie.

Tricycle's a adept pick for a Hobart brekkie - it's non equally fancy equally Tales of a Truffle Pig, Pilgrim together with things all motion a fleck slower, then brand certain you've got a fleck of spare fourth dimension - but the nutrient is fresh together with tasty together with the bill of fare simply varied plenty to proceed you lot interested. Vegans volition larn by with the basic menu, but both of our dishes could guide keep been easily done sans cheese, together with there's a adept guide chances the congee would guide keep done the play a joke on equally well.

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Tricycle Cafe

77 Salamanca Place, Hobart (inside Salamanca Arts Centre)
(03) 6223 7228
veg-adaptable breakfasts: $6-$16.50

Accessibility: There are a modest expose of tables at counter degree (with ramp access), but most of the tables are on a raised platform upward a handful of stairs. Things are all pretty crowded. Orders are taken at the tabular array together with the neb is paid at a depression counter within the shop.

True North

May 10, 2014

Cindy together with I lastly got our human activity together together with visited The Heide Museum on the weekend, something I'd failed to exercise inward over 7 years of living inward Melbourne. One of the reasons nosotros hadn't made the trip earlier was transport, then when nosotros realised that the best motorcoach at that spot passed past times Sydney Rd inward Coburg nosotros decided to construct a twenty-four hr menses of it. Stop one: breakfast at Coburg's newest (and likely hippest) cafe - True North.

It was bustling when nosotros arrived to a greater extent than or less midday, together with nosotros waited a infinitesimal or ii for a tabular array to clear earlier nabbing a spot inward the dorsum corner. The signs were promising when the origin inquiry nosotros were asked was whether either of us were vego or vegan. It turns out that True North accept made a existent endeavor to cater for vegos - they've got vegan bacon, chorizo together with chicken to sub into many of their dishes together with accept only started stocking vegan cheese equally well. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 lot of the savoury carte is egg based, then vegans volition accept to exercise a chip of substituting, but the staff were helpful together with knowledgeable, then I'm certain there'd live plenty of options. We noticed muffins from Crumbs at the counter equally well, which is a promising sign.

The cafe inward full general has a chip of a Mexican vibe - there's huevos rancheros on the principal carte together with the 3 specials were all heavy on the chorizo/chipotle flavor combinations. There's the common array of drinkable options with i unique selection - menage made kaffir lime lemonade ($4.50). Cindy couldn't resist.

It was a vivid selection - tangy together with abrupt with only plenty sweetness to repose out the citrus. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 high shape lemonade.

Cindy's pump had been broken past times the unavailability of the waffles (with candied banana, maple butter, toasted pecans together with bacon, $15.50), but she recovered plenty to society the True North breakfast curl (a fried egg, mock bacon, bubble 'n' squeak served with menage made savor on a toasted white roll, $13).

It was a real mushy curl - runny egg yolk, complimentary shape bubble together with squeak together with loads of relish. Not pretty, but pretty damn delicious - the mock bacon (this brand nosotros think) was expert materials too.

I opted for the baked eggs with chorizo ($15) together with had my pick of almost 15 dissimilar types of hot sauce to accompany things.

This was a real satisfying dish - the eggs baked through but with a hint of runniness inward the yolk together with the Cheatin' construct chorizo chunks adding surprisingly expert bursts of smoky mock-meat.

I was super impressed past times True North - our nutrient was great, the provision of mock meat alternatives ever makes me happy, but to a greater extent than than only that nosotros constitute the staff lovely together with friendly (even piece nether some pretty serious weekend-rush pressure) together with the vibe of the house cool without beingness painful. Coffees are good, prices are reasonable together with the whole sense is i I'd happily repeat in i lawsuit again shortly - grade i for Coburg!

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So far only Green Gourmet Giraffe has blogged almost True North - she seems to live quite a fan.

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True North
2A Munro Street, Coburg
9917 2262
menu: 1, 2
Facebook page

Accessibility: There's a pocket-size pace on entry together with a pretty crowded interior (especially on the weekends when the stools at the bar are inward use). You society at the tabular array together with pay at a medium elevation counter. The toilets are out the dorsum via what looked similar a carpark - nosotros didn't visit, but they'd require negotiating a pace or ii at least.

Invita Ii

September 10, 2011

usual precursor but alongside a fine home-made ane nether our belts, nosotros made our trip after as well as stopped yesteryear Invita for lunch. This is an outdoorsy vegetarian cafe, perched along the market's Therry St side, where what you lot encounter is what you lot get. You social club as well as pay at the counter as well as abide by a spot where you lot can. Most of the bill of fare items are pre-made as well as visible inward their display illustration alongside the total gene listing marked on every special - super-helpful for all mode of dietary requirements!

Michael zeroed inward apace on the Vegani pie ($9.80, including salad), a spelt-based crust stuffed alongside tofu as well as a diversity of vegetables alongside a little sum of spiced kokosnoot gravy.

It's no meat-pie imitator, but tasty on its ain terms. Michael complimented the salads betwixt mouthfuls -a edible bean mix, a light-green salad, as well as a hspicy carrot ane alongside plenty sauce to acquit across the whole plate.

Having ingested a hearty savoury breakfast as well as to a greater extent than of late caught wafts of the market's jam doughnuts inward the air, I ate cake. The Chocolate Cake Especial ($5.95) had a overnice density to it, as well as reminded me of the unproblematic iced chocolate cake that my mum most unremarkably made for birthdays when I was a kid. The ingredients list, though, was almost solely different! Though it's based on chickpea flour, almond meal, soy milk as well as vegetable oil, its vegan as well as gluten-free condition could easily wing nether the radar. My chai latte ($3.40) was pretty skillful too.

Invita actually hitting the spot for us on this visit. While it's totally vegetarian as well as has lots of salubrious options, it's non besides crunchy - I imagine that the well-stocked display illustration attracts plenty of omni eaters on their marketplace rounds, too. Umbrellas as well as partitions offering only a niggling shelter from bad weather condition as well as marketplace bustle, but it's a overnice spot to balance your weary legs as well as create total your breadbasket earlier heading abode as well as filling your refrigerator alongside Queen Vic produce.

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You tin read close our kickoff view to Invita here. Everyone else blogging Invita since has enjoyed it though many authorities notation little flavor flaws, encounter tummyrumbles.com, The Daily Veg, We Dare Food as well as Green Gourmet Giraffe.

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Invita
76 Therry St, Queen Victoria Market, Melbourne
9329 1267
cakes $3.50-6, veg lunches $9-14
http://www.invita.com.au

Accessibility: This cafe has the same apartment paving every bit the pedestrian walk out front. Tables accept average-to-crowded spacing; ordering as well as payment occurs at the counter. There's no straight attached toilet, expect elsewhere or then the Queen Victoria Markets.

Wide Opened Upwards Road

October 17, 2012

Behind this rather unimpressive facade is Wide Open Road - awarded 'best novel cafe' yesteryear The Age inwards 2011 in addition to sibling to Brunswick favourite A Minor Place. I dropped inwards hither a few times when it starting fourth dimension opened - it was a tiny cafe amongst a unproblematic carte du jour that was basically a subset of A Minor Place. Since my final take in a lot has changed - they've renovated similar crazy, to a greater extent than than doubling the flooring infinite in addition to adding a proper kitchen. They've also added a bunch of vegan-friendly dishes to the menu, leading to a serial of recent visits from Melbourne's veg-blog mafia, inwards plough leading to our take in pre-work on a Wed morn (joined yesteryear Steph, who's making upwards for lost fourth dimension breakfast-wise afterward beingness inwards mainland People's Republic of China for much of the yesteryear year).

The novel interior is gorgeous amongst lots of space, big windows in addition to beautiful woods everywhere. They've actually done a wonderful chore amongst what used to last a pretty crowded picayune room. We settled into the dorsum corner in addition to knocked dorsum some delicious hot drinks (chai for Cindy, soy apartment white for me) spell perusing the menu.

The novel carte du jour has 3 vegan options (one for lunch, 2 for brekkie) in addition to loads of vegetarian dishes to need from. Steph went dorsum for the love apple tree in addition to smoked paprika beans, which I was sorely tempted by. But knowing that like Carla I'd inevitably compare them to the famous Henry's Beans, I decided to branch correct out in addition to tackle the scrambled tofu (with capsicum, boundary onion, zucchini, cavolo nero in addition to cumin amongst confit tomatoes, mushrooms in addition to avocado on whole grain toast, $16.50).

Here's me happily hoeing into it. It's a dry out tofu scramble, but non inwards a bad means - simply packed amongst goodies in addition to fried upwards beautifully. The cumin added a hint of spice in addition to amongst a squelch of lemon on overstep I was pretty damn impressed. The mushies in addition to avocado were peachy equally good (I'm certain the tomatoes were also but I'm simply non a fan). Scrambled tofu comes inwards then many varieties - liquidy in addition to Asian-inspired at Dench, immediately egg-replacement at Kopps in addition to weird glue at Grigons in addition to Orr to cite a few - these are inwards the overstep bracket, in addition to good worth a exceptional trip.

Cindy couldn't larn yesteryear the pancakes, covered inwards toppings aimed squarely at her interests (coconut, strawberries, lemon curd in addition to whipped mascarpone, $16.50).

These were then proficient that I didn't fifty-fifty larn a sense of savor - Cindy polished them off all yesteryear herself. From her study they were fantastic - fluffy pancakes in addition to wonderful toppings. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 sweetness breakfast to tempt fifty-fifty the staunchest savoury-lover.

Wide Open Road is hitting it out of the common - it's a lovely space, amongst friendly in addition to efficient staff, peachy java in addition to a vivid in addition to well-executed menu. It's difficult to pinpoint anything they could last doing ameliorate (aside from keeping Henry's beans on the menu!). No dubiety the weekend brings amongst it queues in addition to a slightly to a greater extent than hectic experience, but on a lazy Wed morning, it can't last beaten.

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Veg bloggers accept been getting stuck into Wide Open Road - banking corporation check out vegan virtually town, Green Gourmet Giraffe, easy equally (vegan) pie in addition to Let's Get Fat Together, Stalker Zine, bean there, read that, dear melbourne, Food Amie, om nom nom.com in addition to lunchosaurus were non equally enthusiastic.

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Wide Open Road
274 Barkly Street, Brunswick
9387 6079
veg breakfasts $7-16.50
http://wideopenroad.com.au/

Accessibility: Tables exterior are on a sloping footpath in addition to at that topographic point are a distich of steps upwards on entry. There's a fair chip of infinite inside, although they contend to squelch enough of tables inwards there. There's total tabular array service. We didn't take in the toilets.

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In illustration yous missed it final week, where's the beef lately entered a novel millennium, amongst the publication of our one-thousandth post. To grade the occasion, everyone is invited to bring together us for drinks, snacks as well as good-times at Grumpy's Green this sun from 3pm onwards.

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% posts written yesteryear Cindy vs Michael: 69.5% vs 30.5%

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Most pop recipe: Vegan sausage rolls

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Ray Vi

March 22, 2018

We had such a non bad fourth dimension at the Ray vegan feast a brace of years ago that nosotros were super keen to larn dorsum when our friend suggested a dinner there. You plough up, sit down downwards in addition to they but convey yous nutrient - in that place are no choices to live made in addition to yous current of air upwardly tasting virtually xv dishes across v courses.

Cindy enjoyed her spritz enz - a mocktail based on mutual depression temperature pressed strawberry juice, soda H2O in addition to lemon ($6).

Foodwise, nosotros started out amongst a trio of entrees: smoked almonds, kale chips dusted amongst sumac in addition to steamed edamame amongst thyme salt. The kale was the pick of the bunch from my signal of view, but every dish had its fans.

Next upwardly was approximately other trio of dishes: raw in addition to pickled veggies amongst dark tahini in addition to beetroot, a plate of breadstuff in addition to lavosh amongst smoked pumpkin hummus in addition to smoked eggplant tahini in addition to 1 of the stand-outs of the night: corn chips, miso cheese, refried beans in addition to yard isle dressing. We talked virtually the miso-cheese all dark - spectacular.

Things got a flake heftier for the side past times side circular - corn jacks amongst romesco in addition to jalapeno, mushroom tagine amongst chickpea panisse in addition to cauliflower puree in addition to a grain salad amongst pepitas, pomegranate in addition to orangish dressing. Cindy loved the corn jacks, which were crispy fried petty parcels of corn, spell I was a big fan of the mushroom/chickpea dish. 

We were filling up, then the size of the concluding circular was a flake overwhelming. The banh mi toasts were the stand-out - petty crisp breads filled amongst pickled slaw, cucumber, dark lentil pate in addition to a chewy seitan mock. The veggie side-dishes were good, but nosotros were actually struggling to locomote along eating. I was peculiarly distressing non to swallow to a greater extent than of the kipfler potatoes amongst wild rocket pesto, but I had to exit room for dessert.

Dessert was mercifully pocket-size - a cute petty drinking glass filled amongst a mix of fresh figs, jaffa mousse, hazelnuts in addition to kokosnoot yoghurt. It's difficult to larn likewise far incorrect amongst fresh figs, but this combo inwards item actually worked. 

Things injure downwards amongst a bonus course of didactics of choc-chip cookies.

We were reeeally total past times the destination of this meal. It was a huge amount of food, amongst a fantastic multifariousness of dishes coming out across the v courses. The toll has gone upwardly to $45 (from $30 a brace of years ago), but it's withal exceptionally adept value. The fact that they exclusively produce the vegan feasts 1 time a calendar month agency that they actually deliver on the night. Keep an oculus on their facebook page for the side past times side 1 - yous definitely postulate to mass ahead.

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Read virtually our previous visits to Ray here, here, here, here in addition to here. Since lastly time, in that place accept been positive reviews on vego blogs Green Gourmet Giraffe in addition to Lips Temptations and Real Forking Diet.

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Ray
332 Victoria St, Brunswick
9380 8593
menu (from this visit), drinks
facebook page

Accessibility: There is a shallow in addition to slightly narrow ramp on entry. Tables are quite densely packed, but in that place is a clear corridor through the cafe. We ordered at our tabular array in addition to paid at a low-ish counter. Toilets are unisex, fully accessible private cubicles.