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V Rating: VVV I’m a bit of a newcomer to Japanese since I always believed it to be a vegetarian nightmare, what with all that fish and stuff. But after being dragged to a Japanese restaurant for a friend’s birthday last year I’ve been Japanese food’s biggest fan. Recently I’ve been bugging my wife to try out the couple of Japanese restaurants down the road and Iku Yakitori was our first target. There’s a great range of veggie fare available, with the many smaller dishes looking so appealing that on the next visit I might order a bunch of them, Tapas like, instead of a main. But this time, how could I go past the vegetarian banquet, which for $24 per person was outstanding value. First. A steaming bowl of miso soup to soothe those winter chills. Second. Organic tofu with spring onion, chili powder, ginger and soy sauce, with a seaweed salad. Third. A tofu-wrapped rice ball and a plate of sushi. Fourth. Scrumptious vegetarian dumplings. Fifth. Grilled skewers of mushroom and eggplant. Sixth. Green tea ice cream (although, this was replaced the night I was there with red bean ice cream — yummy!) Phwoooar… So full now I can barely finish my second beer. But the smallish room with the smells of cooking all around make it the perfect place to let a great meal settle before heading off home in the rain. The filthy carnivores looked happy with their food too, so, everyone’s a winner. Reviewed 28 May ‘06, SDEB.
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6 Comments posted on "Iku Yakitori - Japanese, Brunswick, VVV"
Bookmanoldstyle on May 30th, 2006 at 10:35 pm #
How come Melbourne has ALL the good restaurants? I love Japanese food but feel like in Sydney it’s all seafod based. Maybe it’s the ‘ol working harbour trap. Anyhow, for a potluck Japanese restaurant this sounds like a great find. Also sounds like Iku Yakatri has a genuinely interesting vegetarian range (as opposed to just tofu seaweed salad and edamame beans).
Jackie on July 17th, 2006 at 5:24 pm #
I can second all of the comments about the excellence of Iku yakitoris’ vegetarian banquet. Also another great Japanese veggie option in Melbourne is Ume, 385 Little Bourke St. They do a fantastic Veggie Bento box for lunch for only $8.00. They use really fresh ingredients (they pickle their own ginger, if that is any sign). The bento box highlights are the delicious seaweed salad, the agedashi tofu, the excellent miso and…actually the entire bento box is great.
The Editor on July 17th, 2006 at 6:45 pm #
And I second Jackie’s comments about Ume’s Bento box. Motion passed?
kpounder on July 17th, 2006 at 9:06 pm #
Gee, do you guys know each other or something? It’s like you have one brain.
The Editor on July 17th, 2006 at 9:36 pm #
One brain in total, that is.
Sun on August 2nd, 2008 at 5:31 pm #
to the eternal sadness of all vego’s ume is no more..to those who were also addicted to their tempura vege bundles on rice my commiserations. Post a comment
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