Edit 22/05/2012: The EBC has similar a shot closed, but most of the bill of fare has migrated to The Cornish Arms.
The $10 Mondays at the EBC are a sure-fire vegan winner - a board total of inexpensive pub nutrient options, all veganisable amongst the help of cheezly together with soy products. So amongst our refrigerator total of luncheon leftovers, Cindy together with I decided that a lazy pub repast was the gild of the day. We'd envisaged parking ourselves inward a corner, filling upwardly on beer together with nutrient together with riding dorsum on domicile inward fourth dimension to teach angry at the tertiary episode of The Howard Years (aside: is at that spot anything to a greater extent than infuriating than Peter Reith's idiotic face? Answer: yes, Alexander Downer's miserable simpering. Oh God, I've only got to motion on). Instead, nosotros ran into an impromptu vegan meetup, starring Kristy together with Toby, Rachel, Buttons, Caroline together with T and, the invitee of honour, Theresa from Tropical Vegan (visiting from Townsville). They kindly invited us to bring together them, together with nosotros settled inward to the foreign petty dining room only off the master copy department of the pub. Cindy decided to branch out from the touchstone pub fare, opting for an Asian smoked duck together with crispy wonton salad.
The duck was tender together with duckish together with the salad was fresh together with plentiful, but the whole dish was smothered inward some split of sugariness chilli-based sauce that was a flake also sugariness together with overpowered the whole dish. Still, where else tin can you lot teach a vegan duck salad for $10?
I couldn't become past times the pub-food options - this fourth dimension I went for the cheese together with bacon burger, amongst a big side of chips. The chips were much ameliorate than concluding fourth dimension - sure enough a cardinal constituent inward a skilful pub repast - together with the burger was gigantic together with delicious. Fake bacon volition never quite pick out the same flavours to the political party equally the existent stuff, but the 'meat' patty was outstanding - perchance non quite upwardly to some of our homemade efforts, but pretty close. The whole affair only filled the inexpensive pub repast niche brilliantly.
I was happily total afterward putting away my massive meal, but Cindy had been eyeing off everyone else's dessert together with allow me know that I should duck unopen to together with gild her something. It's difficult to ignore a choc-cherry cheesecake at the best of times, but I was fifty-fifty to a greater extent than intrigued to examine a vegan version. I snuck a few mouthfuls away from Cindy together with tin can confirm that it was outstanding. Lots of cherry mush smothering a delicious together with slightly cheesy cake betwixt 2 layers of chocolateness. Not also shabby.
The service isn't actually the pub's potent indicate - at that spot were some foreign delays betwixt dishes arriving at our table, but it's worth noting that the EBC was packed out ane time again - they've actually institute a agency to cause total the pub on Mondays. So what began equally a inexpensive together with speedy repast turned into a inexpensive together with chatty repast - it was swell to run into Theresa, Caroline together with T together with to pick out handgrip of upwardly amongst most of the Melbourne vegan blogging gang. Undoubtedly we'll provide to the East on a hereafter Monday, together with we're almost sure to bump into some familiar faces when nosotros do.
Read nigh our previous visits to the East Brunswick Club here together with here.
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