May 21, 2011: Friends Of Mine

Friends of Mine opened close half dozen months dorsum inwards a outburst of hype in addition to excitement. The identify was run past times peeps amongst impressive cafe pedigrees (Porgie in addition to Mr Jones, Snow Pony - both unreviewed past times us despite vague intentions to see since close 2008) in addition to was on a department of Swan Street that was desperately brusk of expert java options. They also used their twitter account smartly, generating enthusiasm without simply existence wearisome self-promoters. So, predictably, they've been overrun past times Melbourne's buzz-conscious foodie set.

We set them on our listing of places to see in i lawsuit the hype (and queues) died downwardly in addition to this Saturday, amongst a trip to Richmond on the cards anyway, nosotros decided it was fourth dimension to hand them a shot. We turned upwardly at close 9:30 to notice swarms of people blocking the door - luckily they were generally inwards search of takeaway coffee, in addition to so nosotros were able to grab a tabular array without waiting around (just a calendar month back, Nouveau Potato waited 25 minutes for a table!).

It's a pretty big identify that hums amongst activeness - staff swarming close everywhere, customers coming in addition to going in addition to a constant flow of takeaway coffees existence served up. The fit-out is varied: nosotros sat inwards the middle department - all concrete in addition to quirkiness, field the dining expanse furthest from the front end had a to a greater extent than formal white-tablecloth vibe going on.

The carte (which rather weirdly tells you, "you are beautiful") is fairly criterion for a identify similar this: some vaguely salubrious options (muesli, porridge), toasts, eggy dishes in addition to a few other bits in addition to pieces. There's also a whole bunch of lunchy dishes in addition to some desserts, but nosotros stayed focussed on the breakfast department of the menu. The breakfast fashion sweets weren't also abundant (no French toast, no pancakes) in addition to so Cindy went savoury: herb in addition to cheesey toast amongst eggplant kusundi ($11.90).

I idea this was first-class - generous cheese, perfectly melted on delicious breadstuff in addition to a salty in addition to spicy eggplant relish to cutting through it all. Alas, from Cindy's request of sentiment it was all a flake heavy on the cheese. She's a to a greater extent than fragile appreciator of melted cheese (we've had some long in addition to fruitless debates close pizza before), in addition to so this ended upwardly existence a flake much for her.

I ordered the smashed avocado amongst thyme buttered mushrooms, marinated feta in addition to torn basil on wholegrain toast, amongst a poached egg ($18.90).

This was a pretty first-class rendition of avocado on toast - no skimping on the avo (with some overnice seize amongst teeth via a expert squeeze of lemon juice), fragrant in addition to beautifully cooked mushrooms, salty fetta, bursts of basil in addition to parsley in addition to a perfectly poached egg on top. It's worth mentioning that the breadstuff they role at Friends of Mine (courtesy of Noisette) is first-class - soft in addition to crusty inwards perfect proportions.

Unlike a few other bloggers nosotros had no service issues at all - inwards fact our nutrient came out remarkably speedily in addition to multiple staff were e'er on mitt when nosotros wanted them. The java expert in addition to Cindy enjoyed her orangish juice, but both of us walked away feeling a flake uninspired. I intend my issues were price-related - $18.90 is getting a flake ridiculous for a breakfast which, although excellent, doesn't tower inwards a higher identify some cheaper options closer to home.  And given its popularity, it's non currently a identify to linger over the newspaper.  To last fair, I in all probability stimulate got higher expectations for places that accept to a greater extent than than one-half an lx minutes for us to larn to in addition to so I may last belongings Friends of Mine to higher standards than our local favourites. Based on our experience, you'll larn swell service in addition to expert nutrient at Friends of Mine in addition to if you're inwards the neighbourhood you'll non last disappointed.

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Friends of Mine has been raved close all over the blogosphere: Melbourne Food Tales, Juggernaut's Foodie Thoughts, Gourmet Chick, Eat This, Pete Can Cook were all pretty impressed, field simply Melbourne Culinary Journal wasn't wowed.

Vego bloggers Nouveau Potato in addition to Ballroom Blintz were also fans (although it should last noted that vegans volition fighting to notice anything on the carte they tin eat).

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Friends of Mine
506 Swan St, Richmond
9428 7516
Breakfasts: $5.50 - $18.90
http://www.friendsofmine.com.au/ (beware of seemingly unstoppable autoplay music)

Accessibility: Friends of Mine has a fairly broad in addition to apartment entry in addition to is fairly spacious around the communal table.  Things larn to a greater extent than crowded in addition to hard around the check-out in addition to inwards the dining room area. 

May 21, 2011: Loving Hut

still inwards Richmond together with feeling much to a greater extent than similar over-tired children.  Only the hope of trying out a vegetarian eatery for luncheon had us suppressing tantrums together with trying our best to last good.

That restaurant, Loving Hut, is business office of a world-wide chain of eateries associated amongst the Supreme Master together with they've got Supreme Master's ain TV channel blaring inwards the background, spreading the word.  It no incertitude dominates the ambience when the eatery is anything less than fully occupied.

There's a decent arrive at of juices, smoothies, together with tea on offering although the bill of fare cautions that "availability depends on Mother Earth's mood & changing seasons".  Mother populace allowed Michael a kokosnoot juice ($5) sans pulp spell I sampled the zesty greenish lime ($5.50), an odd not-too-sweet together with lightly carbonated drink.

Michael generously urged me to fellowship for both of us.  The menu's quite heavy on the tofu together with also includes mock meats; fresher vegetables are offered to a greater extent than sparsely.  It took a piddling fourth dimension to select what I hoped mightiness last contrasting dishes.

The lemongrass tofu ($12) was a pretty practiced pick - pan-fried 'til golden, slathered inwards a spicy lemongrass glue together with served amongst shredded lettuce together with carrot (quite similar to my Au Lac main, minus all that god-forsaken onion!).

The 5-spice flavoured Taro Delight ($18) was to a greater extent than of a gamble.  These enormous fritters consist of generous chunks of taro, wrapped inwards yuba together with seaweed, battered together with fried.  They're crazy-starchy together with quite tasty, though I'd non last inclined to swallow to a greater extent than than i inwards a sitting again.  Veg-errific capsicum strips aside, the sauce didn't actually appeal to me - it contained seaweed of the rubbery kind, together with the liquid had a slimey agency close it.

The staff at Loving Hut were friendly together with attentive, if a piddling reserved.  I'd swallow at that topographic point i time to a greater extent than - I've read practiced things close the entrées together with the rendang - but this eatery mightiness larn by to lure me dorsum so long every bit Thanh Nga Nine offers such neat veg options inwards the same neighbourhood.

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Loving Hut's trajectory thence far has been blogged past times vegos words@random, In The Mood For Noodles, Veg inwards the west together with Veganise This!, together with so unexpectedly past times the high-end omni eaters at 1001 Dinners: 1001 Nights.

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Loving Hut
Shop 10, 242 Victoria St, Richmond
9427 8916
veg mains $8-18, rice $1.50pp
facebook page

Accessibility: Loving Hut has a apartment standard-width entry together with generously spaced tables.  Ordering occurs at the table, payment at a high counter. We didn't view the toilets.

Loving Hut Ii

August 6, 2012

Our get-go see to Richmond's Loving Hut was pleasant but non exciting together with it was hard to muster upwards enthusiasm to return. But every similar a shot together with so only about other positive weblog review would plow up, or friends of ours would holler novel card items or their favourite dish, together with I knew Loving Hut deserved only about other go. Michael together with I met at that topographic point afterward hold out on a Mon night, armed amongst a mental listing of dishes to try.

The menu, all vegan, has for sure expanded inward the past times year. There were the deep-fried entrees together with mock meat mains that I remembered from our get-go visit, but every bit good soups together with salads, noodles, a dedicated Thai department together with a reasonable proportion of mock-free meals including tofu inward v dissimilar preparations. H5N1 tiny whiteboard on the wall listed dessert specials, many of them raw.

We started amongst the Royal Rendang ($14), cheers to Mel. The soy steak, Irish Gaelic patato together with carrot chunks are hearty wintertime fare, to a greater extent than so when submerged inward a puddle of thick, aromatic together with spicy gravy. We scooped it into bowls of chocolate-brown rice ($2 each) for total sitck-to-the-ribs effect.

The tabular array salt together with pepper tofu ($12) is K's Loving Hut fave. It's lightly battered amongst a perky spice mix together with subtle crunch. Arriving without a sauce, I plucked my portion conduct from the plate without pausing for rice.

Michael would convey happily stopped there, but all nighttime he'd had his dorsum to the specials board announcing "warm dark wood cake amongst cherry cream $7.50". Meanwhile I'd been reading together with re-reading together with anticipating that cake. It isn't just authentic - I couldn't sense of savor whatever cherries or kirsch, for starters - but the presentation is inward the spirit of this ostentatious dessert. I was happy amongst the dense withal fluffy cake texture together with the soy-free flavour, together with rationed out the refreshing strawberry segments judiciously.

It was non bad to come across Loving Hut inward improve shape - piece they did convey a few hiccups on opening, a card expansion together with only about tips from friends in all likelihood made the deviation for us. Their prices are noticeably cheaper that Chinese mock stalwarts White Lotus together with Enlightened Cuisine together with if this Mon nighttime is anything to larn by, they're edifice a loyal following.

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You tin read nearly our get-go see to Loving Hut here. Since so it's received positive write-ups on easy every bit (vegan) pie, Vegan Revolution together with CHOMP together with SLURP. ForkSake's job concern human relationship is to a greater extent than mixed, piece funky_ass enjoyed the nutrient but was position off past times Supreme Master evangelism.

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Loving Hut
Shop 10, 242 Victoria St, Richmond
9427 8916
veg mains $10-18, rice $1.50-2pp, desserts $5-7.50
facebook page

Accessibility: Loving Hut has a apartment standard-width entry, amongst a hard door together with generously spaced tables.  Ordering occurs at the table, payment at a high counter. We didn't see the toilets.

New York Tomato

September 23, 2012

On Sun forenoon I jumped on my wheel early on in addition to striking Burnley for a 'fun' run. 10km in addition to a fair chip of hurting later, it was fourth dimension to discovery some brekkie. For some reason, I've got a blind-spot when it comes to Richmond - I'm certain at that spot are dozens of cafes around, but when trying to intend of somewhere that would serve vegan breakfast for my running buddy Bec I was stumped. Luckily Bec had an persuasion - New York Tomato, which I'd never heard of, but which, it turns out, has an first-class reputation in addition to supposedly some decent vegan options.

Although I didn't realise it at the time, New York Tomato's mention comes from its location, the corner of New in addition to York Streets inwards the back-blocks of Richmond (not certain where the 'Tomato' move comes from). At 9:30 inwards the forenoon things were only warming up, then nosotros easily snared a tabular array inwards the courtyard (the bitingly mutual frigidness air current likely helped). The bill of fare does propose that they know what they're doing - vegan dishes are clearly labelled, every bit are vegetarian in addition to gluten-free options. I considered the baked eggs or the carrot, chickpea in addition to fetta fritters, earlier settling on the quesadilla (refried beans in addition to cheese, topped amongst jalapenos, salsa, sour cream, guacamole in addition to coriander pesto, $16.50).

This was the perfect post-run breakfast, hearty in addition to filling in addition to loaded amongst spicy goodness. I could direct maintain eaten two. Unfortunately, the vegan dishes didn't fare quite then well, largely because the kitchen had run out of beans. It's clear that the cafe is trying to cater to vegans, but without the beans at that spot wasn't much filling on offer.

The coffees were pretty expert in addition to the service was helpful in addition to reasonably efficient. By the fourth dimension nosotros packed it inwards at most xi the crowds had started to direct maintain over, to the indicate that people were having to queue for tables. There's no agency anyone is only wandering yesteryear New York Tomato's location, then it's clear that they've won enough of fans to a greater extent than or less the neighbourhood. It's pretty slowly to run into why - the infinite is lovely (and would live on fifty-fifty lovelier if the Sun was shining) in addition to the bill of fare is loaded upward amongst delicious-sounding goodies. It's non cheap, but if you're inwards the neighbourhood, it's good worth a visit.

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Julesgourmand in addition to eggswithsides were a chip less enthused.

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New York Tomato
vi New Street (cnr York), Richmond
0459 721 321
veg dishes $6.50-16.50

Accessibility: The courtyard has a apartment entry in addition to isn't ridiculously crowded. There are 2 to a greater extent than levels of tables upward some stairs. The toilets (which I didn't visit) are on the overstep floor, then aren't especially accessible.

Fina's Vegetarian Cafe

February 17, 2013

It's taken us far likewise long to see Fina's for the offset time. Reader Ben emailed us close it to a greater extent than than a twelvemonth ago, The Simple Eater stopped inward as well as wrote a rattling positive post close the cafe. Hopefully having some friends living dorsum inward the Richmond neighbourhood volition give us the excuse nosotros demand to sample to a greater extent than of their lengthy all-vegetarian, Vietnamese menu. We met our mates in that place betwixt two of tomorrow's parties.

The bill of fare is quite something to tackle - a plastic folder with a photograph of every dish addition a championship as well as blurb inward a difficult-to-read curly font. Don't dilly dally inward front end of the managing director though! He doesn't help for fourth dimension wasters. After the park rice newspaper as well as boundary rolls, the bill of fare offers a broad make of soups, some noodle dishes, stir-fries as well as hot pots - many dishes are vegan, as well as there's a mix of mock meat as well as non-mock options. The enormous cakes out front end hold back decidedly less vegan, as well as gluten-free choices aren't clear (though alongside all the vermicelli as well as rice newspaper I'm certain in that place are some).

On even as well as then some other hot morning, I was thrilled to regard an extensive selection of juices, H2O ice slushies as well as bubble tea. Michael cruel dorsum on a Vietnamese iced java (ren-dao), served half-full every bit pictured above. He missed the shaved H2O ice that it comes with it Jay reminded us to a greater extent than of late and, later on nosotros flora their shopfront shut during the Christmas/New Year period, The Simple Eater stopped inward as well as wrote a rattling positive post close the cafe. Hopefully having some friends living dorsum inward the Richmond neighbourhood volition give us the excuse nosotros demand to sample to a greater extent than of their lengthy all-vegetarian, Vietnamese menu. We met our mates in that place betwixt two of tomorrow's parties.

The bill of fare is quite something to tackle - a plastic folder with a photograph of every dish addition a championship as well as blurb inward a difficult-to-read curly font. Don't dilly dally inward front end of the managing director though! He doesn't help for fourth dimension wasters. After the park rice newspaper as well as boundary rolls, the bill of fare offers a broad make of soups, some noodle dishes, stir-fries as well as hot pots - many dishes are vegan, as well as there's a mix of mock meat as well as non-mock options. The enormous cakes out front end hold back decidedly less vegan, as well as gluten-free choices aren't clear (though alongside all the vermicelli as well as rice newspaper I'm certain in that place are some).

On even as well as then some other hot morning, I was thrilled to regard an extensive selection of juices, H2O ice slushies as well as bubble tea. Michael cruel dorsum on a Vietnamese iced java (11/finas-vegetarian-cafe/">The Simple Eater stopped inward as well as wrote a rattling positive post close the cafe. Hopefully having some friends living dorsum inward the Richmond neighbourhood volition give us the excuse nosotros demand to sample to a greater extent than of their lengthy all-vegetarian, Vietnamese menu. We met our mates in that place betwixt two of tomorrow's parties.

The bill of fare is quite something to tackle - a plastic folder with a photograph of every dish addition a championship as well as blurb inward a difficult-to-read curly font. Don't dilly dally inward front end of the managing director though! He doesn't help for fourth dimension wasters. After the park rice newspaper as well as boundary rolls, the bill of fare offers a broad make of soups, some noodle dishes, stir-fries as well as hot pots - many dishes are vegan, as well as there's a mix of mock meat as well as non-mock options. The enormous cakes out front end hold back decidedly less vegan, as well as gluten-free choices aren't clear (though alongside all the vermicelli as well as rice newspaper I'm certain in that place are some).

On even as well as then some other hot morning, I was thrilled to regard an extensive selection of juices, H2O ice slushies as well as bubble tea. Michael cruel dorsum on a Vietnamese iced java ($4), served half-full every bit pictured above. He missed the shaved H2O ice that it comes with it elsewhere, but most importantly it was potent as well as sweet.

I've long wished that iced chai was to a greater extent than widespread, as well as then I had to assay out Fina's Ice Chai Latte ($5.50) fifty-fifty though I didn't really desire something creamy. Oops. This was a triple-dairy-threat of milk, icecream as well as thick piped cream, to a greater extent than similar a vanilla milk shiver with cinnamon sprinkled on top. Fun but lacking the spiciness I desire from chai.

By far the cheapest agency to consume is to larn with their vegetarian gyre ($4.50), a mock-pork banh mi with a sweetness as well as somewhat spicy sauce, enough of fresh salad as well as peanuts. Michael slammed it inward footling to a greater extent than fourth dimension than it took me to photograph my food.

On our friend Clamps' recommendation I tried the Vietnamese pancake ($10.50). It's an enormous vegan omelette imitator with a batter of rice flour as well as kokosnoot milk coloured with turmeric as well as studded with chunks of onion, mock ham, mock prawn as well as mushroom folded over a mount of edible bean shoots. The objective is to crimp portions of it into lettuce leaves, add together mint as well as dip - the pancake was a footling greasy, as well as I was boring as well as messy at the task, but it was good worth the effort.

Fina is colourful, comfortable as well as casual. We encountered brisk but friendly service as well as didn't experience at all rushed. Meals are inexpensive and, for the most part, rattling generously portioned. The Simple Eater stopped inward as well as wrote a rattling positive post close the cafe. Hopefully having some friends living dorsum inward the Richmond neighbourhood volition give us the excuse nosotros demand to sample to a greater extent than of their lengthy all-vegetarian, Vietnamese menu. We met our mates in that place betwixt two of tomorrow's parties.

The bill of fare is quite something to tackle - a plastic folder with a photograph of every dish addition a championship as well as blurb inward a difficult-to-read curly font. Don't dilly dally inward front end of the managing director though! He doesn't help for fourth dimension wasters. After the park rice newspaper as well as boundary rolls, the bill of fare offers a broad make of soups, some noodle dishes, stir-fries as well as hot pots - many dishes are vegan, as well as there's a mix of mock meat as well as non-mock options. The enormous cakes out front end hold back decidedly less vegan, as well as gluten-free choices aren't clear (though alongside all the vermicelli as well as rice newspaper I'm certain in that place are some).

On even as well as then some other hot morning, I was thrilled to regard an extensive selection of juices, H2O ice slushies as well as bubble tea. Michael cruel dorsum on a Vietnamese iced java (january-3-2010-thanh-nga-nine-ii), served half-full every bit pictured above. He missed the shaved H2O ice that it comes with it Thanh Nga Nine as well as The Simple Eater stopped inward as well as wrote a rattling positive post close the cafe. Hopefully having some friends living dorsum inward the Richmond neighbourhood volition give us the excuse nosotros demand to sample to a greater extent than of their lengthy all-vegetarian, Vietnamese menu. We met our mates in that place betwixt two of tomorrow's parties.

The bill of fare is quite something to tackle - a plastic folder with a photograph of every dish addition a championship as well as blurb inward a difficult-to-read curly font. Don't dilly dally inward front end of the managing director though! He doesn't help for fourth dimension wasters. After the park rice newspaper as well as boundary rolls, the bill of fare offers a broad make of soups, some noodle dishes, stir-fries as well as hot pots - many dishes are vegan, as well as there's a mix of mock meat as well as non-mock options. The enormous cakes out front end hold back decidedly less vegan, as well as gluten-free choices aren't clear (though alongside all the vermicelli as well as rice newspaper I'm certain in that place are some).

On even as well as then some other hot morning, I was thrilled to regard an extensive selection of juices, H2O ice slushies as well as bubble tea. Michael cruel dorsum on a Vietnamese iced java (loving-hut-ii), served half-full every bit pictured above. He missed the shaved H2O ice that it comes with it Loving Hut get got a existent competitor hither for our Victoria St affections.

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Fina's has previously received positive reviews from The Simple Eater as well as foodie close town, as well as an ambivalent i from Phúc Buddies.

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Fina's Vegetarian Cafe
268 Victoria St, Richmond
9428 6765
veg dishes $4.50-14.00, drinks $3.20-7.50
facebook page

Accessibility: I intend there's a pocket-size pace on entry, but the interior is apartment with a clear passage through the middle. Tables are moderately crowded (see photograph above). The venue is good lit but the bill of fare font is hard to read - it's got photos of all the nutrient anyway. We ordered at our tabular array as well as paid at a low-ish counter. We didn't see the toilets.

Tofu Store Ii

Cheap Eats 2006, a decade on

January 25, 2016

We were heading inward to Richmond for a gig on Mon night, thence decided we'd accept the chance to revisit The Tofu Shop every bit business office of our Cheap Eats 2006 project. This house has been trading since the early on 1980s, thence it's no existent surprise that it's nonetheless going strong.

The basic ordering procedure hasn't changed since our first visit inward 2008 - y'all pick your plate size in addition to thence select from the bain marie dishes until they've filled it upwards for you. The prices get got gone up, but non past times a ridiculous amount - a pocket-size plate costs $12, a medium $17 in addition to a large $26 (compared alongside $8, $15 in addition to $17 dorsum inward the day).

I ordered a medium dish in addition to allow the staff locomote out a pick for me - at that spot was lots of practiced materials inward this bowl, including: broccoli alongside sweetness chilli tempeh, spud in addition to black-eyed beans, chilli jam tofu, chickpea curry, baked zucchini alongside paprika, feta in addition to garlic (this was the exclusively non-vegan dish) in addition to pickled cabbage salary alongside celery.

Cindy had a pocket-size bowl in addition to picked out her ain flavor combo, topping things off alongside a large dollop of tofu dip in addition to pickled ginger. The nutrient is fantabulous - fresh, salubrious in addition to loaded upwards alongside vegetables. It's real reminiscent of Munsterhaus (which originally had to a greater extent than or less form of Tofu Shop connection), correct downward to the same tempeh broccoli dish. Smooshing all the dishes into 1 plate makes the flavor combinations a picayune tricky, but it somehow seems to locomote okay.

We left plenty infinite to endeavour dessert - a slice of the apple tree crumble alongside a serve of vanilla malted soy ice-cream ($9). They've ditched the soft-serve that they used to offer, but nonetheless get got a pick of v soy ice-cream flavours (4 of which are vegan). I quite liked the ice-cream, but it was a fleck also tofu-y for Cindy. The apple tree crumble was pretty bland, sadly.

The Tofu Shop is a reliable source of healthy, flavoursome food. It's been dishing out the goods to Richmond people for decades in addition to the steady flow of people dropping past times to catch takeaway suggests that things are nonetheless going strong. The prices are a fleck steep, in addition to the infinite itself is nowhere nigh every bit prissy every bit the otherwise similar Munsterhaus, but it's a speedy in addition to delicious alternative if you're inward the neighbourhood.

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Read virtually our start see to The Tofu Shop here. Since our visit, it's been positively reviewed on vego blogs In the Mood for Noodles in addition to Poppet's Window, Gastrology, I Talk Too Much My Mouth Hurts, New International Students, Who Told You That?, mochii eats, Olive Sundays in addition to MEL: HOT OR NOT (although at that spot are a few complaints virtually the prices). KT Eats the World in addition to Sweet in addition to Sour Fork were less impressed.

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The Tofu Shop
78 Bridge Rd, Richmond
9429 6204
price list, our dishes, ice-cream
facebook page

Accessibility:  The door has a pocket-size lip owing to the street-level incline. Things are pretty spacious inside, alongside exclusively high stools to sit down on or a lower exterior tabular array (see altitude photo). We ordered in addition to paid at a low-ish counter. We didn't see the toilet.

Nhu Lan

September 21, 2014

It's difficult to become by a practiced vegetarian banh mi - we've had to a greater extent than or less luck amongst a seitan-based version at Tan Truc Giang inwards Footscray together with the mock-pork diversity at Fina's, together with convey incorporated a Vegan Dad-inspired version into our dwelling identify cooking roster. Still, we're ever on the spotter for more, together with so nosotros were pretty excited when Olaf left us a comment recommending Nhu Lan inwards Richmond. We took payoff of a sunny Dominicus afternoon to become together with banking concern jibe it out (as an aside: nosotros honey it when people recommend identify or recipes to us - delight create piece of job out a comment hither or chase us upward on Facebook or Twitter).

Nhu Lan is a classic Vietnamese bakery - no fuss, no chit chat, merely speedy service, made to guild sandwiches together with a decent arrive at of sweetness materials together with pastries. It's all pretty pork heavy, but the $4.50 tofu gyre is clearly marked on the menu. Vegans volition request to endure clear that they don't desire butter or mayonnaise, but the residue of the fillings are pretty straightforward: grated carrot, slivers of cucumber, coriander, chilli together with tofu.

Unlike our Fina's together with Tan Truc Giang experiences, this isn't actually trying to mimic the pork gyre - the tofu is lightly battered rectangles amongst a slightly sweetness marinade. The chilli provides the necessary seize amongst teeth together with the fresh, crunchy gyre is summit notch. I mean value I nonetheless favour the seitan-based version, but this is a cheap, tardily together with delicious luncheon inwards Richmond if you lot don't convey fourth dimension for a sit down downwards repast at Fina's or Thanh Nga 9.

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It seems equally though the Footscray branch of Nhu Lan is popular amongst bloggers, but non many convey reviewed the Richmond 1 - Ministry of Gluttony together with teenagefoodie weren't wowed, field krapow  together with Swimming inwards Coffee were much to a greater extent than enthused.

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Nhu Lan Bakery
152 Victoria Street, Richmond
9429 5545
menu

Accessibility: There's a modest footstep upward equally you lot piece of job into together with the interior is pretty crowded (at to the lowest degree when they're busy). There's non actually anywhere to sit. You guild together with pay at a high counter.

I Honey Pho 264

November 12, 2011

Thanh Nga Nine too Tom Phat.

Thanh Nga Nine downwards the street.

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Under its electrical current name, this eating seat convey received positive reviews on Sweet too Sour Fork, Barley Restaurant Reviews too Foodie About Town. That Jess Ho covers the drama too intrigue surrounding a recent cite change, too is disappointed amongst the novel incarnation.

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I Love Pho 264
264 Victoria St, Richmond
veg fare $5-15
facebook page

Accessibility: There's a ramp on entry; the interior is densely crowded amongst tables. We ordered at the tabular array too paid at the counter. We didn't see the toilets.

Tidbit Cakes & Cafe

August 26, 2018

I commencement got to know Rhi through her weblog Vegan inwards Melbourne in addition to was really excited for her when she opened her ain business, Tidbit cakes, inwards Richmond. Rhi's top dog merchandise is inwards special occasion cakes but she also sells smaller daily treats from her brightly lit workspace. Everything is vegan.

Sadly our lunchtime see was likewise belatedly to claim whatever of the sausage rolls, but nosotros were good satisfied amongst the toasties however available. Rhi blends ii vegan cheeses to larn the best combination of meltiness (Bio Cheese) in addition to flavor (Vegusto). I liked that the pesto, Lycopersicon esculentum & cheese version ($10) was seedy in addition to nutty, in addition to loved the mustard in addition to pickle piquance of the ham/cheese/tomato criterion ($12.50).

There's a distich of piddling tables to consume inwards at Tidbit, but Rhi had also pointed out to me the domestic dog common only downwardly the street, thus nosotros had our sweets boxed upwardly for a takeaway inwards the belatedly wintertime sun. While nosotros watched lots of cute canines frolicking, nosotros divide ii fantabulous desserts. This is i of the best vegan cheesecakes ($7) I've e'er eaten - super smoothen in addition to without a whiff of tofu, amongst a thick chocolatey biscuit base of operations (get outta here, raw appointment crusts). We made a magnificent mess of the nutella brownie ($6), which was super-dooper fudgy, amongst only a piddling welcome crustiness roughly the edges.

Though nosotros didn't purchase whatever on this day, these guys brand the well-nigh stunning vegan macarons! Sadly for us, Richmond's exterior our regular circle of movement, but yous tin forcefulness out bet we'll halt inwards in i lawsuit again (hopefully for a sausage roll) when we're within Tidbit's range.

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Tidbit has also appeared on the weblog messy veggies.

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Tidbit cakes & cafe
255 Mary St, Richmond
0434 872 867
https://www.tidbitcakes.com/

Accessibility: There's a ramp on entry in addition to to a greater extent than flooring infinite than slice of furniture inside. We ordered in addition to paid at a depression counter. We didn't see the toilets.