Eat, Pray, Love: Vegetarian

Fork on The Road was back on 12 April after the Fringe event! If you missed the last Fork on The Road post, you can check it out here. This time off, Light Square was chosen as the place of aggregation. With the grassy seatings, it was feasible for the diners to laze around in the afternoon or evening, enjoying their meals.

With the ending of daylight saving this early April, the day ends earlier than usual, around 6pm. Hence, we set off for Fork on The Road dinner event around 5.30pm to enjoy a short period of day light before the dusk kicked in.

Being driven by the research I had done the night before the visit and my unwavering curiosity, I decided to try out Little Big Cheese Co. Unfortunately, the special of the day which was the pulled pork toasty with King Island Smoked Cheddar, had been sold out and I chose to have Classic instead. It was a toasted bread with smoked shoulder ham, Swiss Gruyere, seeded mustard and lashings of butter. A stick of gherkins came as an accompaniment to the toasty.

The ham was heavily smoked and hence the saltiness was very prominent. It was sourced from Marino's in the Central Market. As the curing and smoking process is labour intensive, Little Big Cheese Co has no time but to pass this important task to the Marino's. The cheese was seriously good too! However, do prepare a cup of water when you are having this toasty as you might need it to wash away the saltiness before taking another bite.

Do try out its pulled pork toasty as it is smoked by Little Big Cheese Co itself and that is the highlight of this South Australian, Italian family run business.

Classic Cheese Toasties

Little Big Cheese Co has been operating around Adelaide for the past 4 months in various events such as East End Wine Down, Adelaide Food and Wine Festival and Fork on The Road, not to mention some makeshift locations! Do like its facebook page to keep yourself updated on its trail.

Little Big Cheese Co

Website: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Little-Big-Cheese-Co/461087203963963
Phone number: 0433 503 836

Hereby I declare my favourite brownie stall is Four Seeds! There are a number of variety you can choose from, but the most famous ones are peanut butter and salted lime brownie. I tried its salted lime brownie and it was so amazing! The lime flavour was incorporated into the moist chewy texture of the brownie which was topped with sea salt flakes. The saltiness kicked in after the refreshing lime, making the brownie a special one!

Four Seeds Stall

Website: http://fourseeds.com.au/baked.without.numbers/home.html
Phone number: 0409532500

Behold vegetarians! Let Them Eat can be a new addiction to you! It offers vegan tarts, desserts and fritters in which you can munch them as snacks! It does offer catering and retail service where you can consider to have a vegan banquet without worrying that your guests will rant and rave about the food!

The array of food offered

Parsnip sage and mascarpone arancini I ordered turns out to be a surprise as I never realise vegan food can be this special and delicious! Especially with the sour and sweet condiment, the fried rice ball fed my stomach really well.

Parsnip sage and mascarpone arancini

Website: http://www.let-them-eat.com.au/
Address: 18 Elizabeth Street, Croydon
Trading hour: 10am-4pm (Tues-Sun)

Get forked up! And hopefully there will still be the next Fork on The Road event!

Love, Victoria

Vegetarian food is something that I seldom touch on when I eat out, because I feel it is not so worth for the money. If you are in the same boat as me, this restaurant might be able to change your mind. Being there in the hustle and bustle of Rundle Street for the past 24 years, Vego and Love'n It is still the same as it was when it first started. Diners might expect it to expand to a spacious venue or even upgrade the payment method to EFTPOS, but none of this happens.

It is hard to notice this cosy place if you pass by Rundle Street as it is situated on Level 1 just right beside the shop 'Naked'. Climbing up flight of stairs, the interior mismatches the contemporary Rundle Street due to the quirkiness. The boss has decorated the restaurant in his eccentric way with pastel, mosaic-border frames and stacks of CDs. You can never find the same decoration anywhere else. There is also an old fridge in the middle of the walkway where you can get your drinks from. You just feel like at home!

Another noteworthy thing about this restaurant is that its menu is handwritten and exhibited on the wall. The handwriting is pretty small and I have to use much energy to read it.

Menu on the wall

Interior decoration

The seatings are limited as the restaurant is really small. It can only accommodate around 20 people at one time. Table water is not complimentary in this restaurant, as you have to pay $0.50 for that.

Pastel with mosaic-bordered frame on the wall

The restaurant is run by the boss alone. As a result, you can expect the food here to be consistent in flavour and quality.

The kitchen

Spicy Mushroom

It consists of vegetarian pate, carrot, tomato, avocado, swiss brown and lettuce, being served on sweet dough. Although the name implies the presence of mushroom, I am not able to taste it. The mushroom is most likely incorporated into the pate together with other ingredients. The pate is mushy and tastes really unique. I like the sauce as it blends every ingredients together in my mouth.

Spicy mushroom

Absolutely Fabulous

It is a spicy burger on round roll, with hummus, avocado, chilli sauce, tomatoes, fresh capsicums, carrot, tahini and mixed lettuce leaves. Again, you cannot tell the ingredients used to make the pate by just tasting it. The pate just tastes differently from one another.

Absolutely Fabulous

Lentil and tomato soup

This is deemed to be the small serve of lentil and tomato soup, but it comes in amazingly big portion! The soup is of substance as you can taste lentil and tomato literally, instead of being just soup. It is also served with toasted bread with garlic butter. Healthy option for lunch!

Lentil and tomato soup + Bread spread with garlic butter

You can opt to have half serve of burger in which I find myself to be really full after eating it. The boss is really generous in the portion and yet cheaply priced (half serve burger at $8.50). It is definitely a place to go if you are tired of Hungry Jacks burgers or other routine food places. Do drop by the place earlier than lunch hour as it will be full by then.

Website: -
Address: Level 1, 240 Rundle Street, Adelaide, SA 5000.
Trading hours: 10am-4pm (Mon-Fri)

Love, Victoria

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