The Sweetwater Inn Iii

January 2016: The Sweetwater Inn closed inwards Oct 2015, although at that topographic point are promises that they'll reopen somewhere else inwards the not-too-distant future. 

March 8, 2014

We establish ourselves inwards South Yarra on Sabbatum in addition to took the chance to revisit The Sweetwater Inn. We got at that topographic point pretty early on in addition to establish things pumping along - the outdoor surface area was full, the bar loaded in addition to every spare tabular array was reserved. Luckily, they could offering us a corner topographic point provided nosotros could consume in addition to deed on inwards a twain of hours. We were in.

The bill of fare has changed since our concluding see - the pie floater is sadly departed, every bit is the ham steak. The BBQ prawns remain, every bit create the fish in addition to chips in addition to the rissole sandwich, amongst the 2 novel dishes that nosotros sampled. First upwards the smoked BBQ chicken, char-grilled in addition to basted with a BBQ glaze ($18). The chicken was really like to the mock-meat that the Cornish Arms base of operations their parmas around, but the glaze kicked things upwards a notch in addition to the tangy bbq sauce was smoky in addition to delicious. Each primary comes with 2 sides (choose from chips, coleslaw, Irish Gaelic patato salad in addition to garden salad) - nosotros both loved the loving cup o' chips, which were perfectly crispy.

Our minute primary was the pulled mushroom blend lamb roll, a shredded mock lamb coated inwards a pasty BBQ beetroot sauce with coleslaw on soft damper bun ($15 - there's a double version for $20 too).

This reminded me of the lamb that Madame K purpose inwards their massman curry - it's quite a meaty rendition, with the stringiness of the 'pulled' version adding slightly off-putting realism. It was pretty great, although it's a fleck much to endure paying $15 for a smallish mock-meat roll.

The Sweetwater Inn create the Americana/Australiana combo pretty good - there's loads of hot sauce varieties, lots of kitschy decorations (including stuffed birds in addition to bull horns, which mightiness position around people off) in addition to a bill of fare amount of classic mock-meat based dishes. The staff are lovely in addition to the make of booze impressive (their ain Sweetwater Lager is a pretty decent beer option), but it's busy, noisy in addition to a fleck on the pricey side. We're Sweetwater enthusiasts, but with the Cornish Arms much to a greater extent than conveniently located we'll likely stick to our electrical flow schedule of a twain of visits a year.

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You tin read nigh our previous visits to the Sweetwater Inn here in addition to here. Since so the vegan bill of fare has had a adept write-up Vegan Bullsh*t (twice!) in addition to positive reviews from Fig in addition to Walnut.

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The Sweetwater Inn

1/60 Bray St, South Yarra

0402 532 578

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Accessibility: There are iii steps upwards every bit yous enter. Things are reasonably good spread out, with seating a mix of high stools, depression chairs in addition to kegs. This fourth dimension nosotros bought drinks at the high bar, ordered nutrient at our table, in addition to returned to the bar to pay. We didn't see the toilets.

Where's The Best Inwards 2013?

Another yr has passed, which agency it's fourth dimension for us to update our where's the best? page 1 time again. It's been a big yr - Cindy sampled all the Auckland had to offer, I binged on Glasgow's vegan pubs and enjoyed roughly to a greater extent than of Brisbane's veggie options. We've too moved house, as well as thence await a few to a greater extent than Brunswick posts as well as a few less Carlton posts inwards the years ahead.

can't-stop choc chip cookies as well as rosemary choc chip cookies), along amongst a suite of choc-peanut delights (peanut butter caramel slice, Reese's pretzels and sniggers bars). She too made a vegan version of an former solid unit of measurement favourite, bienenstich.

bacon 'n' egg muffins as well as tested out our novel oven amongst delicious walnut crusted tofu cutlets. We discovered that ribbons are the best way to bask zucchini amongst this pad Thai salad as well as zucchini ribbons inwards almond pesto. We impressed a potluck crew amongst pumpkin as well as kale harissa polenta patties, recipe-tested as well as roughshod inwards honey amongst pâté en croûte as well as warmed ourselves amongst chilli lime tamarind tofu as well as chipotle mac 'n' cheese amongst roasted brussel sprouts. Our crowning achievement? Probably the ridiculously skillful bbq pork bao.

  BBQ pork bao

In price of eating out, nosotros lost 2 of Melbourne's classic vegan-friendly eateries. The Gasometer (which we've reviewed one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten times) sadly unopen its doors, spell South's run at The People's Market was cutting short. Thankfully, the brains behind the menus at both these places helped brand The Sweetwater Inn an exciting Southside pub for vegans (also maintain an optic out for Smith & Daughters inwards Fitzroy inwards 2014).

 The pie floater at The Sweetwater Inn, South Yarra

A couplet of other former favourites accept morphed - Coco Loco is immediately the Mexican-themed very vegan friendly), spell L'atelier Monsieur Truffe has perish East Elevation, maintaining its past times breakfast excellence as well as provided us amongst a real fine dinner.

Fina's Vegetarian Cafe, A Caterpillar's Dream as well as Vegie Mum all serve fantabulous mock-meat dishes, spell Munsterhaus volition charge y'all upward amongst fresh as well as salubrious delights as well as Mister Nice Guy's Bakeshop volition ply y'all amongst vegan pastries.

Stovetop as well as Code Black every bit good every bit longer term success stories Small Victories, Acustico as well as Beatrix.

 Acustico, Brunswick

The Reverence Hotel, The Sporting Club as well as The Spotted Mallard accept joined our ever-growing listing of veg-friendly Melbourne pubs, spell Bayte as well as UAE both offering high lineament Middle Eastern meals amongst plenty of meat-free options.

Shu (twice) has in all likelihood been our almost exciting regain this yr - I can't recommend their Midweek black vegan nights highly enough. Shandong Mama as well as Dainty Sichuan render top notch Chinese eating theater experiences that are a fleck to a greater extent than conventional (if quite dissimilar to each other).

Wednesday black vegan degustation at Shu, Collingwood

We're behind the eight-ball dessert-wise (no visits to Helados Jauja as well as Berrissimo (two, three) accept impressed us amongst their vegan-friendly summery sweets.

Berrissimo, Fitzroy

  

Blog-wise nosotros had a busy year, amongst 207 posts including 132 reviews of restaurants, pubs as well as cafes (for those keeping rail - Cindy wrote 124, or 60% of our posts in conclusion year). Our top 10 almost pop posts published this yr are...

1. Yong Green Food #5
2. Thick golden dahl
3. Lemon & sage white edible bean burgers
4. Carnival cookies
5. East Elevation
6. Hello Aubergine (sadly closed, but replaced past times the fantabulous Good Freakin' Food)
7. Spoon's Vegetarian Butcher (also closed unfortunately)
8. Gong de Lin
9. Tofu-ricotta cheesecake
10. Fina's Vegetarian Cafe

Our 2008 vegan sausage rolls post remains the almost visited page on our spider web log every week.

We've too finally joined everyone else on Facebook - caput over as well as similar us at that topographic point if you're afterward a slightly to a greater extent than interactive where's the beef? experience. We perish on to encounter lovely people as well as brand neat novel friends via blogging - Melbourne has a wonderful veg*n blogging scene, as well as much of it is compiled on Planet VegMel. Thanks for hanging out amongst us inwards 2013 - we're looking forrard to roughly other big yr of eating inwards 2014.