NB: SYDNEY PITT STREET VEGETARIAN CLOSED AT THE END OF FEBRUARY 2007. V-Rating: Super V I have a job where I occasionally get to go out for fancy business lunches. This means lovely restaurants with small food, white tablecloths, and vegetarian unfriendly menus. It is these kinds of experiences that make carnivores lean sympathetically across the table and say ‘It must be so hard being vegetarian. I mean, what do you eat?’ With such scarring experiences in mind, I’m always happy to find a vegetarian business colleague and take them straight to a veggie friendly restaurant. Last week I managed just that with a rare foray into business yum cha at Sydney Pitt Street Vegetarian. My colleague and I both enjoyed the experience, not least because we got to concentrate on talking to each other rather than negotiating something to eat. We arrived at 12.30pm when the restaurant was still empty. By 1.00pm the restaurant was almost full with like-minded suits gossiping over their dumplings. The yum cha dishes came out thick and fast: fried spring rolls, different varieties of steamed dumplings, fried spinach rolls, green vegetables and rice noodles. Many of the dishes were similar to Bodhi’s, although the prices were cheaper (we had 6 dishes and a drink for $28). The service was friendly and the waiting staff were good at judging when to approach with new temptations. My only criticism is that most of the food we were offered was fried. Perhpas I’m used to Bodhi’s where there is a good selection of steamed food that I find kinder during the 3.00pm post-lunch stupor. However, we didn’t try the majority of yum cha dishes and you might be able to request steamed or less oily food. Before trying the yum cha I would have put Sydney Pitt Street Vegetarian in the VVVVV category. I’d eaten there once for dinner when the restaurant was largely empty and lacking in atmosphere. However, for a great value vegetarian yum cha experience Sydney Pitt Street Vegetarian gets a Super V.
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5 Comments posted on "Sydney Pitt Street Vegetarian - Vegan, City, Super V (CLOSED)"
Carol on February 27th, 2007 at 10:36 am #
This is one of my favourite places to eat when i’m not too concerned about the calorie intake. Food is great, really tasty especially the fried tofu. There’s actually quite a variety of different yum cha dishes and the meals come out so quickly that there’s no waiting around in your short lunch break. I definately reccoment this as a great place to eat. I also love that it’s 100% vegan as well!
Balya on March 19th, 2007 at 6:21 pm #
Unfortunately …the place has closed!!! I went on holidays and came back and now its all over. Do you know if they have reopened in a different location? This place is true vegetarian heaven..
kpounder on March 19th, 2007 at 9:15 pm #
I read on the Vegan Sydney blog that it closed down in late February, but unfortunately no news of it opening up somewhere else. If I find out anything more I’ll post about it. I think it’s really disappointing that in the last year Vegal Kitchen in Randwick, Celestial Palace in Newtown and now Pitt Street Vegetarian have all closed. Guess it just illustrates how important it is to support veggie restaurants.
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Joyleen Christensen on October 9th, 2009 at 10:21 pm #
It’s been two and a half years since this place closed and I still miss it on a regular basis. Does anyone know of any place that serves a vegetarian yum cha as good as they had - they were the only people in the world who could get me to eat asparagus! Post a comment
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