Where to eat for Meat Free Week (or just life in general!)
- Kimberly Kay
- Mar 23, 2015
- 3 min read
Meat Free Week started on Monday. This global campaign asks us to take up the challenge of becoming a bit more mindful about our meat consumption. Without delving too much into the debate, there are some very real and negative impacts that the meat industry is having on our health, environment and fellow creatures.
A startling 72% of Australian's are not eating enough vegetables, which makes Meat Free Week an oppurtune time to have a look at exactly what we are putting on our plate. To support this great movement, here's a run-down of go-to vegetarian feeds in Sydney. Hopefully this provides some inspiration for any Omologists currently undertaking the challenge.
Post Yoga Breakfast
If you’re in need of a catch-up with friends, or a romantic way to start your day, you can’t go past a quaint café that sits upon the waves of Kirribilli wharf. Their Buttered Arabian Eggs, layered with greek yogurt, garlic, chilli and lemon juice burnt butter and mint on sourdough, is the perfect way to start your day. There’s usually a bit of a wait on weekends, but the time passes fast as you wait on the wharf with one of their fabulous coffees.
Brunch
If you haven’t been south of Sydney in a while, this is the perfect excuse. Not only are there loads of yoga studios and outdoor pop-ups happening, there is also a lot happening on the food front. Heart and Soul offers organic, local produce influenced by aryuvedic recipes. A lot of the hot food isn’t served until 11:00am, which makes it the perfect place for brunch.
Recommended Dish: Warm up with a Kofta wrap and a chai latte
If you are in the area long enough to build up another appetite, get in line for Pilgrams café for lunch, it’s well worth the wait!
Lunch-on-the-go
Sandwich life can get a bit bland if you lead a full-time meat-free life. Rolls on oxford serve up the ultimate vegetarian rolls. Their daily fresh bread is packed with traditional salad, tofu ham and vegetarian pâté, splashed with soy sauce, mayonnaise and chilli. Not only will they add some texture to your standard salad sandwich, the service from the staff is sure to put a smile on your face.
Recommended dish: Vegetarian Roll or Vegetarian Vermicelli Salad.
After work dinner and drinks
This is the place to go if you are in the company of heavy meat eaters who need convincing that vegetables can be enough to satisfy their hunger. The quality of their vegan yam cha menu will have even your biggest meat-eating friends fooled. Their “prawn” dumplings, “duck” pancakes and salt and pepper “calamari” are all 100% vegan and 100% delicious.
Hidden underneath Cook and Phillip Park in the heart of Sydney, the Asian tea-lights and outdoor park settings make Bodhi a blissful choice to wind down your working week.
You can even test out their vegan wines to wash your meal down with.
Date Night
This is not the place to go if you’re a bit timid about your appetite in front of your date. Govindas serves up an all you can eat buffet of vegetarian goodness. Start off with their Indian Dahl Soup, pick at their cauliflower pakoras, and then devour their take on traditional shepherds pie, which is a sweet potato mash with lentils. In between serving they have a variety of salads to choose from. If you have any room left for desert, try out their famous cheesecake.
The best part; just when you feel like you are about to food coma, you can go upstairs to watch a film in their boutique cinema. The intimate space is made up of beds and couches rather than your usual uncomfortable cinema chairs. Bring along a blanket and some bed socks as you snuggle-up for some public spooning.
You can even head there early and check out their lotus room for meditation events before your dinner.
For more information on Meat Free Week simply visit www.meatfreeweek.org
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