vegaroo!

Rubyos on King Street in Newtown is the kind of accidental discovery I live for. Turns out that this fancy-ish small plates restaurant has a whole secret vegetarian menu and that the majority of the options are vegan. Your cover is blown, Rubyos! I am telling the world, and you will be flooded with vegans! And then maybe you will go all vegan! And then maybe someone will buy me a robot that cooks me vegan french toast!!! ANYTHING COULD HAPPEN!!!

Until then, allow me to dazzle you with some food porn, glorious food porn… Olives! I love olives. They’re beautiful to photograph, and the citrus marinated ones at Rubyos are soooo good. Like, James Franco so good.

I have to admit I was a little let down by the cocktails. I ordered one called a Basil Grande which was strawberry, basil, vodka, and a “peppery infusion.” All the ingredients for awesome. But it mostly just tasted like slightly alcoholic strawberry juice. Not bad, but not wow.

But luckily I was a bit more wowed by the rest of the food. Like the vegan antipasto plate! It didn’t really bear any resemblance to its meaty/cheesy analog, but that’s probably for the best. What it did have was tasty semidried tomatoes, a soba noodle salad, pickled melon (!!!), baba ghanouj, and crostini with avocado salsa. Yes please!

Then there was the salt and pepper tofu, a particular favourite dish of mine. They use silken tofu, which gives it a nice delicate taste and the pickled veggies added a little extra flavour.

Lastly we got the pumpkin coriander dumplings. I’m not sure why they were called dumplings when they’re clearly more like a fritter. But when something is this delicious, YOU DO NOT QUESTION IT!

I think there were a few potentially vegan dessert options but I was too stuffed and they weren’t particularly exciting. (Sorbet? Snooooore.)

But overall I highly recommend Rubyos! You should take a date here! It shows that you have good taste and you like to share. But if you’re looking to get them trashed, maybe head down King Street for mojitos at Corridor. Pro-tip!

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