September 1, 2008: Eastward Brunswick Guild Ii

Edit 22/05/2012: The EBC has straightaway closed, but most of the carte du jour has migrated to The Cornish Arms.

second trip was to a greater extent than pleasant, but stopped brusk of truly impressing. Yet a set out of other bloggers couldn't stop talking about their Monday night meals. Were nosotros truly missing out on something particular here?

Well, kinda. The sometime hot domestic dog black has diversified - straightaway the EBC offers inexpensive jugs too 4 meals going at $10 apiece. We chose between:

• a cheese too bacon burger alongside chips,
• a chicken burger alongside lime mayo, avocado too a side of chips,
• fettucine bolognese, and
• chicken parma alongside chips too salad.

While this is quite cheap, y'all mightiness nonetheless endure wondering what the big bargain is. Here it comes: y'all tin social club whatever of these meals vegan. Any of them. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 cheese too bacon burger without the, uh, cheese too bacon. Lime mayo that's got no job concern beingness free-range or otherwise. Spaghetti sauce that's never seen a feedlot!

But why? Why would the East Brunswick Club bother? Stop past times on a Mon black too you'll see. The house is packed. We were barely able to snag a tabular array for two, too nosotros were at that spot earlier 7:00. As nosotros waited for our meals Michael, e'er the statistician, kept tabs on the plates emerging from the kitchen, estimating that 80% of them were 100% animal-product-free. The EBC has constitute a gap inward the market, too is hopefully making a tidy turn a profit past times filling it. It doesn't affair a jot what a non-vegan similar me thinks of the food.

You know I'm going to say you, regardless. The kitchen is clearly overworked at a fourth dimension similar this too what comes out of it is expert - non great, but good. The 'chicken' is tender too moist but sort of fatty; the chips could endure better. And at that spot was a twenty infinitesimal gap betwixt Michael's parma arriving too my chicken burger's entrance - boo. But the crumbing is too thus darn crunchy, too simply how do y'all larn vegan cheese similar that? It's cool.

The gluttony require non fifty-fifty terminate there, because dessert's $8 too estimate what? It's all vegan, all the time. There's:

• peanut butter chocolate swirl cheesecake,
• apple double-decker cake alongside caramel sauce,
• choc-mint cheesecake, and
• blueberry too lemon cheesecake.

I truly dug the choc-mint cheesecake - simply remain away from the 'cream'. (I'd suggest exactly the same thing at whatever set out of non-vegan venues.)

Cheers to the East Brunswick Club - they've proven that the greasy pub dinner is non the exclusive territory of Australia's carnivores.

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You tin read virtually i of our previous visits to the East Brunswick Club here.