I cooked something new!! So wait for the recipe which will be up this week. I'm slowly getting back into my groove, having all new furniture has really rejuevenated me. Last week was INSANELY busy so I am forcing myself to stay in as much as possible this week/long weekend. I have a few art projects I've been working on at home so I'm going to finish them this weekend. Also as you've no doubt gleaned I've been super depressed over the past couple of months so this week is the festival of Carla!! I'm going to get a body ...
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I had a bad week of not taking photos!! And the one meal I took photos of I didn’t get the details of the place ha! I'm pretty sure its At Home Thai, but that’s the beauty of Sydney, you can walk into almost any hole in the wall Thai place and eat the most delicious asian food you've eaten in a long ass time. Thanks Sydney.OutWilliamstown BeachStraya day at the beach, Clare and I rode the 20kms from Brunswick down to Williamstown, its quite a pretty ride. Although its desolate shipping crates, the colours are really beautiful and the ...
Rudest service I have ever experienced in Melbourne. We arrived at 6.15pm, there was ONE table that had four people sitting at it and four people waiting at the bar to be served. We waited TEN MINUTES to have our order taken, then, no Bulmers ontap today, oh can I have a ginger beer, after faffing around, running out the back, no ginger beer today, oh well I guess we'll have soda water. I was seething by then but thought bugger it I'll just have my meal and go. We ate the cheese and bacon burger first which was really ...
Dinner! Tom Phat! Lisa! Finally! This dinner had been a long time in the making and I was trepidatious as to what Tom Phat could offer for din dins (especially after miss ts dispariging experience) well, it was awesome. I asked the waitress what was vegan on the menu and pointed to every item that was vegan adaptable (what ingrediants would be taken out/replaced) and the items that were stand alone vegan. Impressive.Top shot: Nasi Goreng w- Tofu and Tempeh skewers. The sweet soy, tart tamarind sauce and the smoky oils made the dish drool worthy delicious. Amazing.Buddhas Delight: Beancurd, ...
Gosh darn it I completely forgot! I've been in a foul mood for the past couple of days, I don’t know whats up with me. It will pass. I didn’t do much last week, I was tired and settling into my second week back in hell (I'm looking for a job so if you hear of anything let me know, I can do web analyst stuff, project coordination stuff). Blah. I have a major case of the blahs.OutBirthday Party - Penny BlackBirthdays hey. The Penny Black is really great, Erin Tasmania is djaying there a lot lately playing gorgeous ...
A new, ‘trendy’ cafe has opened in Coburg! Does this mean we are finally getting some hip Brunswick overspill? Ummmm, maybe not. And, who cares? I first moved to Coburg in 1998, and I like it, dammit! Carpa is modern-looking, with tables inside and out, and a couch; it’s pretty comfortable. The menu isn’t vegan friendly at all (only toast available, perhaps with avocado!) but they do an ok coffee, though at $3.70 it’s not particularly cheap: Carpa is not Coburg’s only cafe, however. As well as assorted little places that probably aren’t worth a mention, there’s O’Heas Bakery, a milkbar-type place ...
Aduki in association with Naked espresso/Basil Pizza will be having a VEGAN BAKE OFF on the 14th Feb at 126 King Street, Newtown. Doors open at 2pm, entries accepted until 2.45pm, judging from 2.50 to 3.20pm and winners are announced at 3.30pm, with entries consumed until 4pm. This is also a perfect time for any of you Sydney siders to come and say hello. That’s right, I’m flying up there especially for the event. If you’re feeling a bit hesitant about entering or attending, may I direct your attention to the photos from the Great 2008 Aduki Bake-Off. Fucking amazing, a broad ...
Hey guys! I went into Radical not so long ago and saw that Anikee is selling ALL the good vegan cookbooks, so I've taken down my amazon store, because I would prefer that you bought them off her. Its easy to forget that she doesnt only sell food.Radical Grocery
Monday Melbourne Roundup - Christmas addition…I took a well needed break from everything, including the interwebs for the past ten days. I did all wonderful things like write, sleep (a lot) read books, watch a TONNE of tv/movies, spent quality time with people who had come back from interstate/overseas for Christmas. Relaxed! I cant remember everything I did over the break but I will try my darnedest, I can say I rarely left Brunswick.out9The best action film I saw this year (only? Oh no right I saw District 9 which SUCKED BALLS). Tim Burton produced, the look and feel is ...
Living in Brunswick rules. As you would know, as most of my readers live here. Tabets oregano pizza on fresh, homemade dough, with fresh vegies, cooked in the hot stone oven, sprinkled with lemon juice and olive oil and rolled up like a kebab. Fuck. Yeah.deets: 607 Sydney Road, Brunswick VIC 3056, Phone (03) 9387 3461 $$: $2.50 YEAH YOU HEARD ME old world prices
Busy, two 4am days this week. Woot woot.OutThe Boys Are BackAhh Australian film, so pitch perfect, so heart wrenching, so unflinchingly real. Australian film is fucking exhausting and Scott Hicks new missive (director of Shine) is all of those things and more. It’s a beautiful film of loss, how grief makes you crazy and how your assumptions on things you take for granted can have profound impacts on the people you love without your knowledge. Beautiful, haunting film, I cried buckets. Not sure Id recommend going especially to the cinema for it, but definitely one to see. Big thanks to ...
Jeez louise, can you believe I just plain forgot to do the round up this week? Its silly season, things are getting crazy busy. So much so, I cant actually really remember what I did last week.OutMy futures so bright I gotta wear shades - OK OK - Sparta Place, Brunswick My friend Mina has a shop. A shop with a gallery space (available for rent peoples, check it out). I bumbled along with the Beave to the latest opening, "My futures so bright I gotta wear shades" from local artist Hannah Crofts. The blurb goes: "An eccelectic art ...
Clare and I finally made it down for $12 Mondays. We happily shared this and were stuffed (well had enough room to share a dessert*) sooo good if you want a fake meat fix! FYI there is an extremely limited menu on $12 Monday (I think 2 choices for vegan and 2 for omni) their more extended menu is really great but I feel far too expensive for what it is. They also use tofutti products which I dont like.*we finally tried the vegan tiramisu at vege2go.. soo not impressed so no picture/review.deets: 280 Lygon Street, East Brunswick, Victoria 3057 ...
I was vegan about 6 years ago for 2 years. And I was full on, militant. I went back to being vegetarian for 3 years, last year I went back to eating fish and calamari to going back to being vegan this year (it all changed when I went snorkelling in Perth and I cried on the beach after watching the fish swim around, I couldnt look them in the eye). I told myself I didn't want to go as militant as I was last time (as I found it really super took away from my enjoyment of life - ...
I've waffled on enough about it. Tom Phats tofu scramble is my favourite weekend breakfast right at the moment. The combination of the smoky oils and the sweet and sour thai sauces, I squeal with delight when I know its time to go there. The roti bread is debateably vegan, I asked the kitchen and they said on the packet it says made with margarine, which could mean it has milk solids in it, so order at your own risk. I am actually salivating right now looking at that picture. yum yum! Their coffee is very good too, I have ...
Basically fellow vegans, don't go there. They had no easily identifiable vegan options on the menu and their vegetarian options were barely vegetarian (lots of rennet products in there). I politely asked at the bar what options could be made vegan, the man at the bar (who was very sweet in trying to accommodate me) was trying to figure it out when the chef arrived and was quite terse about the whole thing. He informed me that the only thing I could have on the menu would be a pasta with pasta sauce (he also said it depended on how ...
Radical Grocery now has nine flavours of ice cream in stock. And vegan waffles. Yay!
It’s been a while since I’ve done a $20 shopping spree, so in honour of OzVeganMoFo, here is my local vegan store, Radical Grocery. So my love for Radical Grocery is well-documented. It’s 100% vegan, it’s ethical, it’s affordable, and it’s in my neighbourhood – what’s not to love? There’s even bike parking right out the front! The stock at Rad Grocery includes not just vegan food, but products with local, ethical and fair-trade credentials. The product range is big, and includes particularly good stocks of tea (and coffee), chocolate, vegan sweets, and faux dairy and meat products. (The refrigerated items ...
I tried to slow down as much as possible this week, MIFF and subsequent illness really knocked me for 6.Eats/DrinksIdea Food and WineI recently purchase the Vegetarian Good Food Guide by Aduki Press, and let me tell you peoples, this thing is GOLD pure GOLD. First cab off the rank was Idea Food and Wine and my GOD was it AWESOME. I'm so sick of calling ahead/being apologetic and grateful that I can get fed places so I've decided to do nothing but really veg friendly (or all veg) establishments for a while, I need a break. Clare and I ...
Friday night was date night. I had money to burn and a lady to spoil, so I thought I'd take Clare on a tasting menu of my favourite spots in Melbourne that she hadn't been to yet (yes I actually go out with other people than Clare, to places she hasn’t been before, I know its amazing). So Friday was very very very busy and boozy. Couple that with my derby wife in town for the derby match and my parents arriving on Sunday for my Dads birthday, last week was busy with the socialising. Never fear though, I still ...
Douglas Coupland once said that every city has a particular smell, rattling off what the cities he has lived in/loved imprinted on his brain. It really got to me and my nose has been taking in an olfactory registry of the passing seasons of my 4 years in Melbourne….Northside in winter smells like, nag champa, wood burning fires and cuminNorthside in summer smells like, pot, orange juice and coffeeThe city continuely smells like chinese barbeque, garbage and coffeePort Melbourne has a heady mixture of the stinky STINKY Port (which can only be described as the smell of sludge) and the ...
OutFBI Fundraiser Roxanne ParlourLet me set the scene. Carla is quite drunk, Carla is hungry, Carla inhales some Japanese at a speed that frightens the sweet hostess. Carla is pouty that Daniel doesn’t want to go to the only thing that would have been good on Friday night (Swizzle a go go), Daniel being a much larger more insufferable snob than Carla and is harder to get to come around. Daniel scours a Beat, Carla is insistent that she knows exactly what is going on in town and its either the FBI fundraiser or Swizzle (my preference). Too drunk to ...
This week: POOR!ShinjukuFab. Cheap and cheerful Japanese on Sydney Rd. Iku (which is right across the road) is too expensive for what it is (which is decent Jap), Shinjuku isn't anything totally amazing but it’s a great space, the staff are just gorgeous and you can have a big feed and a beer for $20.SyracuseGorgeous wine bar, would be an absolute BROTHEL on the weekend, well any time outside of when I was there which was 4pm on Thursday. So would be lovely for an afternoon drink, but would be crawling with suits most other times. If you can get ...
I had the pleasure of many things on the weekend, one, visiting the vegan grocery store that's been open on Sydney road for sometime (Radical Grocery Store) and two, trying some of its wares! I was particularly interested in Soyatoo, soy cream! So I baked a chocolate cake and cracked it open. According to the box its whippable and you can put it in a bulberator, so I whipped it and it came apart. Coming out of the box its like this velvety, thickened cream, but when I started whipping it, it turned to liquid, sad face. We ate it ...
As noted at where’s the beef, the joys of the new(ish) vegan menu at the East Brunswick Club have been oft-written about. I think I’m officially the last vegan in Melbourne to actually go there, but I finally got the chance on Monday, when a few reviewers from The Melbourne Veg Food Guide, Emily and I went out for a celebratory dinner. So I finally got to try their famed vegan parma, to which I say: ZOMFG! I am a parma addict from waaaaay back and the East’s offering totally ticks all the right parma boxes for me – big, ...
