Category Archives: Under $15

Tea Master — The Fortitude Valley

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Tea Mas­ter — The For­ti­tude Valley

I never knew veg­e­tar­ian and vegan food could be so deli­cious — the sim­u­la­tion crispy chicken nuggets were much more appe­tiz­ing than Tea Mas­ter’s (veg­e­tar­ian and vegan eatery) lam­i­nated menu pray told.

The real­ity of the mat­ter is that I had only recently been intro­duced to such meat-free delights. After cater­ing for my vegan friend’s  dietary require­ments at a party, I now under­stood how dif­fi­cult procur­ing vegan food (and veg­e­tar­ian to a lesser extent) was — for exam­ple, many veg­ans would pre­fer to avoid white sugar due to its use of ani­mal prod­ucts dur­ing pro­cess­ing. I used to cringe at the thought of hav­ing to find vegan friendly restau­rant options.

For this rea­son, Tea Mas­ter was a blast of fresh air prov­ing that there are an abun­dance of ways vegan food could be pre­pared and also dis­prov­ing my, and com­mon mis­con­cep­tions, that veggie/vegan food was all bland. Tea Mas­ter has a dis­tinct Asian per­sua­sion (rather than than the Indian dishes avail­able at the more other notable veg­e­tar­ian eater­ies in the CBD) with plenty of menu items. I would have to say that this restau­rant receives a resound­ing EXCELLENT in my books for taste, value and innovation.

Peony Asian Fusion — CBD

Peony Asian Fusion

It’s not often that I ven­ture out to have BOTH lunch and din­ner out at (dif­fer­ent) restau­rants, and find myself dis­ap­pointed at both meals. This was the case on Fri­day 02/11/12. I find this slightly upset­ting con­sid­er­ing that I used to con­sider Peony Asian Fusion as a safe and rep­utable estab­lish­ment that I could read­ily rec­om­mend to friends and fam­ily. Hav­ing been there sev­eral times myself, I won­der what has hap­pened in the last few months since I was last there. Admit­ed­ley, the entire expe­ri­ence wasn’t all bad, but it just annoy­ing that my meal wasn’t too flash. Bris­bane Bites had lunch on this par­tic­u­lar occasion.

Siam Samrarn Thai Restaurant– West End

Brisbane city Dining Guide - Siam Samrarn Thai Restaurant Westend

Siam Sam­rarn

Usu­ally, the prospect of asso­ci­at­ing with West End’s over­whelm­ing hip­ster and hip­pie pop­u­la­tion is enough to steer me well clear of the admit­tedly decent restau­rants the sub­urb has to offer. After our expe­ri­ences at Siam Sam­rarn, per­haps a sec­ond chance is in order?…After all, we were pretty impressed with this Thai restau­rant in West End  shop­ping complex.

Nudo’s on Mary –CBD

Nudo’s on Mary

Brisbane city Dining Guide - Nudo on Mary Curry Chicken

Here at Bris­bane Bites, we’ve been hav­ing a bit of a crav­ing for Malaysian food… Espe­cially after my recent expe­di­tion to the south-side Asian food-Mecca of Sun­ny­bank. How­ever, for many in Bris­bane, Sun­ny­bank isn’t the most acces­si­ble place, and hav­ing found our­selves in the Bris­bane CBD for lunch, Nudo’s on Mary seemed like a well-worthy alternative.

No No’s Lebanese Food– Red Hill

No No’s Lebanese Food– Red Hill

Brisbane city Dining Guide - No No Lebanese Food
Cheap, deli­cious and non-fuss. No No’s Lebanese Food is pretty much a food insti­tu­tion in the inner city sub­urb of Red Hill.