August 26, 2011: Cafe Zum Zum Ii

we blogged close Cafe Zum Zum - it's withal doing its affair alongside really few changes, at a few dollars to a greater extent than per plate. The entrée listing has many tempting vegetarian options, acre the mains include alone i meat-free plate. Many dishes are heavy alongside dairy - a vegan could potentially cobble together a repast from entrées but I'd recommend calling ahead.

From our terminal see I remembered sitting exterior nether weird blueish lighting, eating feta pastries as well as chickpea salad. If alone I'd remembered that nosotros were stuffed from sharing 4 entrées, nosotros mightiness non bring ordered 3 entrées as well as a primary this time! Eep.

The sambousik ($14) are golden filo parcels stuffed alongside feta as well as mint, as well as everything you'd promise them to be.

The falafel ($12) are less memorable but withal good, coated inwards a thick tahini sauce. I similar that they come upward alongside a tart petty side salad.

The highlight for me has ever been the fatteh ($15), a chickpea salad dressed inwards yoghurt, tahini as well as olive oil, topped alongside tomatoes, mint as well as crispy squares of toasted bread. I would happily swallow this solo, every bit a main, alongside a petty fresh breadstuff to mop upward the dressing.

Finally, nosotros checked out the pumpkin as well as eggplant tagine ($25). I didn't discovery the pickled chillies listed on the bill of fare but did strike a pair dark olives. Brine hits excepted this is sugariness as well as soft, only melting inwards the mouth.

We also received a handbasket of soft pita breadstuff as well as dish of aromatic rice to soak upward all the sauce. It was a lovely repast - likewise much food, though non likewise much to pay. 

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You tin read close our outset see to Cafe Zum Zum here. Since hence it's had positive reviews on Cakestorm, food men & love as well as Eat northward Speak was disappointed alongside their experience.

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Cafe Zum Zum
645 Rathdowne St, Carlton North
9348 0455
veg entrées $11-16, mains $25

Accessibility: Entry is average (no step, I don't think) as well as tables are a flake crowded. There's amount tabular array service. The lighting is fairly dim as well as it tin larn quite loud as well as echo-y.

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.

July 21, 2011: Lakshmi

6/8/2013 - It seems equally though Lakshmi is closed. The site is beingness transformed into notwithstanding to a greater extent than or less other burger articulation - we'll continue yous posted.

Depot de Pain). It's a cute picayune house amongst seats for mayhap thirty people together with a relatively brusque carte du jour - half dozen curries including three vego dishes together with a few sides.

We were greeted amongst a picayune bowl of mixed spicy treats (on the house) piece nosotros mulled over our choices. Drink-wise Lakshmi is strictly BYO, amongst simply a couplet of non-alcoholic options: mango together with tamarind. We both chose the tamarind quaff - it was sugariness together with non-carbonated together with a decent plenty accompaniment for our curries.

I couldn't resist the lure of the thali: dahl, raita, pickle, chutney, salad, pappadums together with rice summation your choice of curry (chickpea masala for me!) for $18.90.

chickpea curry, amongst the add-on of crispy fresh beans together with a slightly less intense flavour. The array of accompaniments was a prissy acquit on but I in all likelihood didn't bespeak pickles, raita and chutney. I create dearest my pickles though together with this i (lime) was pretty great.

Cindy took on the other vegetarian curry on the menu, the Sri Lankan pumpkin (with fenugreek seeds, curry leaves, mustard seeds together with kokosnoot milk, $13.90) amongst a side of roti ($4). The curry was sugariness together with mildly spiced, amongst the fenugreek together with mustard seeds shining through, piece the roti performed much ameliorate than Chin Chin's version.

Melbourne's other Indian places, shooting for the classier cease of the marketplace position occupied past times Roti Man together with Indya Bistro. I idea that they measured upward pretty well, piece I intend Cindy in all likelihood favours their near neighbours. The carte du jour is limited, together with thus how oft nosotros company dorsum volition depend on how oft nosotros experience similar repeating these dishes (or how oft Lakshmi alter things around). Still, it's a prissy add-on to the neighbourhood, together with i that I intend volition create pretty well.

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Lakshmi
687 Rathdowne Street, Carlton North
9349 5525
veg eats $14 - $19

Accessibility: There's a pocket-size footstep on entry together with pocket-size to moderate room betwixt tables. We didn't banking concern fit out the toilets.