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Eat less meat. Cows fart far to much for our planets' good. Organic + Vegetarian restaurant. I am absolutely happy with just having veggies. But guys might need a taco from the nearby taco place after lunch here hah. Environment:Airy and uncluttered. No air conditioning for a change. There are only about 20 seats in the restaurant. It is quite spacious. Service:Friendly and engaging owner who...explained the chalkboard menu to us. Pretty much identical to the one I saw in May. You still can't r
Eat less meat. Cows fart far to much for our planets' good. Organic + Vegetarian restaurant. I am absolutely happy with just having veggies. But guys might need a taco from the nearby taco place after lunch here hah.
Environment:
Airy and uncluttered. No air conditioning for a change. There are only about 20 seats in the restaurant. It is quite spacious. Service:
Friendly and engaging owner who...explained the chalkboard menu to us. Pretty much identical to the one I saw in May. You still can't replace coffee/tea with mango lassi. Mehhh.
Food:
$110 lunch sets: daily soup + main + coffee/tea It's a bit messy but basically you have salad, soba noodles, penne, tofu burger, portobello to choose from. We shared. Correction - we were supposed to be sharing but C didn't have much of an appetite so I ended up having 1.5 portions. ._. ...but it was enjoyable and not too guilt-inducing. Organic tomato soup
Quite yummy. Not the usual kind of diluted russian borsch you'd expect. This is a substantial and filling soup, with a starchy vegetable cooked into it - probably potato. Very hot when it arrived . It was quite thick, but there wasn't any cream I believe - just the starch being cooked into the soup. There was also some pureed tomato?
Portobello burger with potatoes and salad in mustard sauce
I realize I cannot be friends with people who don't like mushrooms. They're so innocent and lovely. Such an unassuming, humble little fungus with earthy aromatic flavours. Succulent. Healthy. Filling. Anyway. The mustard dressing was pretty good, and mild, so it didn't overpower the grilled portobello. It was also thinned out a little for the mushroom to soak up like a sponge. It works! The side veg consisted of lettuce, large baby tomatoes(?), sliced cucumbers, capsicum, and whatever you see. The potatoes were delicious - the owner told us that they were organic. I suppose it did make a significant difference this time. Mm, mum would've loved this, because mum loves potatoes. Cooked till perfection - not overcooked such that they became too powdery, nor undercooked such that you need to force your knife through them. It was very starchy - the cubes of potato gave the knife a little resistance, yet yielded obligingly once you made the first incision. I stole quite a bit off C's plate. Hehee. The portobello itself was large, juicy, well seasoned, and a delight to eat. Organic penne with mushrooms and salad
Gotta say that the penne was a bit bland but the absence of dressing made this dish much lighter and healthier than regular pasta dishes. It's good that C had some mustard dressing to spare - so I dipped the penne pieces into the small pool of mustard dressing. Pasta was slightly undercooked, but was done in salt water sprinkled with a bit of pepper - really simple method to have pasta. But there were fat slices of a smaller breed of portobello mushroom (i think?) generously mixed with the pasta. Those were cooked with much dedication too. You can tell they did not hea. The compulsory salad was satisfying. Herbal tea - for stress relief consumed by C.
Herbal tea - for immunity boost, for me.
Didn't really like it coz it tasted of chamomile. I'm skeptical towards the medicinal/healing effects of tea. But I guess tea can't harm me. Conclusion:
Once in a while with an objective to have lunch as mindlessly as possible, okay. But was lunch worth $110...? I would think not. Could get something more satisfying for a lesser amount in SoHo, where rent is like...
But I suppose one has to pay a price, literally, for health. What society is this...?
題外話/補充資料：
A healthy, light, spontaneous lunch to lift spirits. Company is a good thing to have at times of loneliness, and two's a company. :)
(以上食評乃用戶個人意見 , 並不代表OpenRice之觀點。)
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