EBC excepted of course), for certain at that spot was no such affair inwards the wasteland due west of the trainline. But Cindy is to a greater extent than trusting than I, too figured that our tipster Adrian truly was a regular reader too had our best interests at take in too non some machiavellian pub possessor hoping to lure us to West Brunswick too forcefulness feed us T-bones too parmas. Luckily, she was right.
As Adrian had informed us, the Union Hotel is a newly refurbished pub sitting a few blocks due west of Sydney Road amongst a history of beer too tits which has been all but wiped out inwards a pretty fashionable makeover. The fit-out is nearly consummate now, too the interior is low-key, but non without style, piece the beer garden looked spacious too welcoming (if entirely we'd noticed it earlier finishing our food!). The staff were real friendly too attentive (a piddling equally good attentive - they were quick to notice us photographing the carte du jour too real curious equally to why), too at that spot was a skillful multifariousness of beer on tap.
All this was real promising, but the existent cardinal to our hearts is through the food. The Union has a comprehensive carte du jour - a broad attain of vego starters, a pasta too some marinated tofu on the carte du jour too and thence a blackboard chock-full of specials, including some other handful of vego starters too mains. Score.
We started things off amongst zucchini fritters amongst light-green tobasco aioli ($6). For some argue I was imagining these equally beingness variety of cheesy - to a greater extent than similar some haloumi too zucchini fritters that I've had somewhere before. Instead, they were similar giant battered zucchini chunks
The batter was crunchy too delicious providing some welcome texture around the zucchini's soft flavours. The star though was the tobasco aoli - tangy too spicy without beingness truly hot, I could convey happily dunked anything inwards this sauce.
We had quite a few choices for mains - passing on the vegie lasagne too the broccolini pasta, too settling on 1 alternative from the specials board too 1 from the measure menu. I went for the measure alternative - grilled marinated tofu amongst sauteed Asian greens amongst a salad of mixed leaves, herbs, carrot too enoki mushroom amongst a tamari too chilli dressing ($16).
This was 1 of Adrian's specific recommendations, too it was an outstanding pick - perfectly cooked tofu, loads of fresh vegies too a beautiful sweet/spicy dressing. This variety of dish belongs at a specialist vegetarian restaurant, non a pub - highly recommended.
Cindy couldn't become by the pumpkin ravioli amongst a mushroom, sage too butter sauce ($12).
These were some soft piddling parcels of sweetness, slathered inwards a very, real rich sauce. It'd locomote wise to monastic nation a salad on the side of this, but we'd already committed ourselves to the fritters, thence Cindy had to run through it amongst entirely a few sneaky bites of my salad for some lightness. Still, you'd locomote difficult pressed to detect equally good many amend $12 pub pastas.
We were equally good far gone for dessert, too the sweetness options were much to a greater extent than express than the savoury. But too thence who goes to the pub for sweets? Beer plant much amend amongst chips than amongst H2O ice cream. The Union Hotel is nearly guaranteed to locomote a success - I'm certain there's a huge catchment of people due west of Sydney Rd crying out for delicious, reasonably priced pub nutrient inwards a laid-back, friendly atmosphere. The staff did know nosotros were powerful too influential nutrient bloggers, thence they may convey turned on the charm but for us, but it's unlikely - we'll convey to become dorsum inwards disguise but to brand sure.
Address: 109 Union Street, Brunswick
Ph: ? - they may non convey a telephone yet - it wasn't busy plenty to postulate a booking anyway.
Website: http://www.theunion.com.au/home.htm (presumably yet nether evolution - Federal Reserve annotation a remnant of their old, not-safe-for-work past: http://www.theunion.com.au/links.html)
Price: Entrees $6-$14, Vegie mains $12-$16
As Adrian had informed us, the Union Hotel is a newly refurbished pub sitting a few blocks due west of Sydney Road amongst a history of beer too tits which has been all but wiped out inwards a pretty fashionable makeover. The fit-out is nearly consummate now, too the interior is low-key, but non without style, piece the beer garden looked spacious too welcoming (if entirely we'd noticed it earlier finishing our food!). The staff were real friendly too attentive (a piddling equally good attentive - they were quick to notice us photographing the carte du jour too real curious equally to why), too at that spot was a skillful multifariousness of beer on tap.
All this was real promising, but the existent cardinal to our hearts is through the food. The Union has a comprehensive carte du jour - a broad attain of vego starters, a pasta too some marinated tofu on the carte du jour too and thence a blackboard chock-full of specials, including some other handful of vego starters too mains. Score.
We started things off amongst zucchini fritters amongst light-green tobasco aioli ($6). For some argue I was imagining these equally beingness variety of cheesy - to a greater extent than similar some haloumi too zucchini fritters that I've had somewhere before. Instead, they were similar giant battered zucchini chunks
The batter was crunchy too delicious providing some welcome texture around the zucchini's soft flavours. The star though was the tobasco aoli - tangy too spicy without beingness truly hot, I could convey happily dunked anything inwards this sauce.We had quite a few choices for mains - passing on the vegie lasagne too the broccolini pasta, too settling on 1 alternative from the specials board too 1 from the measure menu. I went for the measure alternative - grilled marinated tofu amongst sauteed Asian greens amongst a salad of mixed leaves, herbs, carrot too enoki mushroom amongst a tamari too chilli dressing ($16).
This was 1 of Adrian's specific recommendations, too it was an outstanding pick - perfectly cooked tofu, loads of fresh vegies too a beautiful sweet/spicy dressing. This variety of dish belongs at a specialist vegetarian restaurant, non a pub - highly recommended.Cindy couldn't become by the pumpkin ravioli amongst a mushroom, sage too butter sauce ($12).
These were some soft piddling parcels of sweetness, slathered inwards a very, real rich sauce. It'd locomote wise to monastic nation a salad on the side of this, but we'd already committed ourselves to the fritters, thence Cindy had to run through it amongst entirely a few sneaky bites of my salad for some lightness. Still, you'd locomote difficult pressed to detect equally good many amend $12 pub pastas.We were equally good far gone for dessert, too the sweetness options were much to a greater extent than express than the savoury. But too thence who goes to the pub for sweets? Beer plant much amend amongst chips than amongst H2O ice cream. The Union Hotel is nearly guaranteed to locomote a success - I'm certain there's a huge catchment of people due west of Sydney Rd crying out for delicious, reasonably priced pub nutrient inwards a laid-back, friendly atmosphere. The staff did know nosotros were powerful too influential nutrient bloggers, thence they may convey turned on the charm but for us, but it's unlikely - we'll convey to become dorsum inwards disguise but to brand sure.
Address: 109 Union Street, Brunswick
Ph: ? - they may non convey a telephone yet - it wasn't busy plenty to postulate a booking anyway.
Website: http://www.theunion.com.au/home.htm (presumably yet nether evolution - Federal Reserve annotation a remnant of their old, not-safe-for-work past: http://www.theunion.com.au/links.html)
Price: Entrees $6-$14, Vegie mains $12-$16
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