More Vegan grub!

Newtown may be the most populated with vegan offerings but there are plenty options elsewhere in Sydney. As I mentioned in the previous post, Sydney chain IKU whole foods have various locations in the CBD, Glebe, Rozelle, Bondi. I have often visited the one in the Westfield (Pitt St) food court in the CBD when working in the area as its nutritious and reasonably priced. The salad dressing is so good that they even sell bottles of it to take home! In the CBD there is Mother Chu on Pitt St which is a home style Chinese restaurant with a huge menu to select from. Bodhi is a more upper class Asian dining option in Cook and Philip Park with a Chinese/yum cha menu. I loved their tom yum soup but was unimpressed with their duck pancakes. On Oxford St  I would tend to opt for the great North Indian Diner which has a good selection of vegan curries at a price you just can’t beat. It has a small sit in area or take-away. Sambreo a Mexican chain store also on Oxford St advertises that they do vegan versions but this did not include vegan cheese or sour cream(when I went to the Townsville one anyway), however California Burrito on Crown St does have the option of vegan cheese and sour cream yay, it makes it so much better! Near to this burrito shop, on Cleveland St the Maya  Vegetarian Indian Restaurant is well worth a visit. The jackfruit curry I had was amazing and they have a couple of dairy free Indian sweets too, bonus, I bloody love Indian sweets! Nourishing Quarter also on Cleveland St, is very popular so you will always have to book. It has the cutest vintage décor and some really healthy, but comforting dishes. Sydney vegetarian institution Govinda’s is a great way to spend an evening. Eat a huge buffet then veg out with your food baby in their lie down cinema up the stairs.
Now it’s a bit of trek out of the city(about 50mins by train) but the suburb of Cabramatta which has a large Vietnamese community has lots of vegan restaurants and shops with a huge range of vegan products. I swear I was so excited the first time I went there, seeing the huge freezers of every type of mock meat product you can imagine and also lots of fabric shops with ridiculously cheap fabric- I was in heaven!. The area around John St at the Belvedere Arcade has heaps of vegan eateries such as Green Palace Thai, Duy Linh and Loving Hut plus the best shop called Just Green Health Food Store. I swear the amount of stuff in this place in unreal: vegan eggs, bacon, chicken drumsticks, calamari, cheesecakes, chocolate, dried goods, cheeses, pies, you name it they’ve got it! I will definitely be back in Cabramatta again before I leave Sydney.

Cabramatta

Oh yeah!

yes for real!- very good ontop of fried rice/

Obviously there are more places that I have not name checked or that I even know about, we are just so lucky here in Sydney to have so much to choose from. I think the next place on my list to visit is a reasonably new vegan Indian on Broadway called Vrnda’s.