Author: Food and Travel Secrets

Space, Woden- amazing breakfast dishes all day!

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One of the great things about Space, the newest restaurant in Woden CBD, that opened last week, is that it serves it’s lovely breakfast menu all day.

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Inspired by Her Canberra’s post, to try the Space Benedict $17.90 –  the pulled pork croquette  is just so delicious, goes well with the poached egg and the beetroot hollandaise is wonderful. The pork cracking brioche crumble is lovely flavour and texture contrast.

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This must be the best dish yet, closely followed by the Felafel and Salmon Salad.

The Breakfast Fritters are also excellent – $17.90. The corn, zucchini and halos I fritters are especially good, also nice with the poached eggs, a tasty feta and harissa yogurt, beetroot hummus and a lovely contrasting texture in the corn cous cous.

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The Polenta Waffles $17.90, next door looked excellent as well and were served with a ‘theatrical’ touch from Ricardo which made it worth ordering just for the show.

The Muesli $15.90 also looks gorgeous and no-one seems shy about ordering it for lunch either.

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And there’s even more amazing creations in the cake cabinet in the way out that you must not miss! A work of art – everything!

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Cream, Canberra City – breakfast!

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Cream, on the lower ground corner of the Canberra Centre near Gus’ is a great all-rounder at any time.

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With stylish decor and excellent service, it’s open for breakfast, lunch and dinner seven days a week. It has a good range of interesting dishes on the menu and easy parking in the Canberra Centre nearby (great for the middle of winter).

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The options for breakfast are varied and include:

Spanish Omelette $18 with chorizo, peas, roasted red peppers, manchego cheese and sourdough

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Big Breakfast $19 free range eggs with bacon, chorizo, mushrooms, oven roasted tomato and chat potato

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Pancakes $17 with caramelised toffee apple, butterscotch sauce and vanilla icecream

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Poached eggs with feta, smoked salmon, avocado smash on sourdough (very good!)

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Cream also offer Canberra Entertainment Book holders two mains for the price of one.

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Indian Cooking lesson 3- Dal with Zucchini and Cauliflower Stuffed Paratha

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Another differently textured and flavoured curry to add to a vegetarian feast repertoire is a classic dal.

At her Sunday afternoon Aroma and Spice Indian cuisine cooking lessons, Vinnys shows how to prepare a very good channa dal with zucchini ( or long melon) …..

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….with cauliflower stuffed parathas to accompany it.

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Like the other parathas Vinnys has taught, the parathas can be made ahead even frozen and are quick and easy to create.

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The dishes planned for the next two lessons are:

Sunday 18 October

Raita, Lentil Parantha stuffed with Spinach and chick pea salad

Sunday 25 October

Butter Paneer and a Naan bread

Email Vinnys if you’re interested in joining in:  vinnystanve@yahoo.com.au

 

Space, Woden – opening today! and very wow!

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Space opens today on the ground level of the Sky Carpark on the corner of Furzer Street and Worgan Street. It’s the brand new venture of Richardo who is legendary for his desserts and pastries at Ricardo’s Cafe in Jamieson.

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It’s a real win for Woden CBD. An upmarket restaurant with a creative and interesting menu that has Ricardo’s touch everywhere.

A “Spoilt for choice” menu includes an extensive range of all-day breakfast options…

…like Hotcakes $17.90 – boysenberry hotcakes with blood orange curd, freeze dried raspberry and white chocolate crumble and coconut mascarpone….

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…..some gorgeous salads promising some amazing flavour and texture combinations…..

…..Like the excellent Felafel and Salmon Salad $18.90 with Tasmanian Smoked Salmon, beetroot and chickpea felafels, red pepper hummus, mandarin, baked ricotta, baby kale and lemon crème fraiche..

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… gourmet sandwiches like the Pork Roll $12.90 – with leomongrass pulled pork, coriander, carrot, chicken pate, lime aioli and chilli..

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… burgers like the Wagyu Cheese Burger $16.90 wiith wagyu beef, grilled bacon, American cheese,, onions, pickles, ketchup and American mustard…

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… sliders like Pulled Pork Sliders $16.90  with pulled pork, salsa verde, cabbage slaw, chipotle aioli..

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… fish and chips $19.90 with pea puree and tartare sauce and calamari.

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Licensed, but not BYO, wine by the glass has been carefully chosen and sells for $8 a glass.

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The large, open, stylish spaces are inviting and the open kitchen engaging.

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Service is exceptional!

The plans are to open for breakfast and lunch, from around 7am – 5:30pm six days a week (closed Sundays) with the possibility of staying open late on Friday evenings.

And other exciting plans include moving the patisserie kitchen to Space so that those gorgeous desserts will also be coming to Woden.

Sounds dangerous!

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02 62816668
Furzer Street, Phillip
Space-Kitchen.com.au

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Soul Origin, Westfield – a quick look at lunch

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Soul Origin is a fresh new presence to the lunch scene in Westfield Woden.
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Offering a wide range of delicious looking gourmet salads and sandwiches/wraps/baguettes/tortillas/ paninis at take-away prices, there is also a small among of pleasant seating available.

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Soul Origin also very helpfully displays the kilojoules in the different options and sizes both at the counter and on-line, so you can make an informed decision.
Serve sizes are generous and easily shared between two modest appetites.

Schnitzel BLT Baguette (delicious, but heavy on the kilojoules at 4660kJ per roll).

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The salads and sandwiches are sold at reduced rates after mid-afternoon so that’s a great time to grab something easy for dinner of you’e on your way out.

Soul Origin Menu, Reviews, Photos, Location and Info - Zomato

Urban Corner Cafe, Fyshwick – a convenient spot for lunch if shopping.

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The Urban Corner Café, located opposite Harvey Norman in Fyshwick, offers Canberra Entertainment Book holders
two meals for the price of one.

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This means you can choose something like Fish and Chips with salad as well as Grilled Barramundi with salad and chips and just pay $17 for both.

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Other options include a range of burgers or breakfast dishes as well as risottos and schnitzel.

A fairly plain setting and a bit of a wait if it’s busy, it is still a light and open space in a convenient location if shopping.

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Phone: 0474963158 / 0451321861

Urban Corner Café Menu, Reviews, Photos, Location and Info - Zomato

Urban bean Expresso Bar, Woden – some good salad options for lunch

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Urban Bean Expresso Bar in the heart of office worker buildings Woden, has always offered a range of great lunch options.
The gourmet wraps and burgers are always good, but it may be the salads that are the very best options on offer.
The Thai Chicken Salad ($14.90) has a great sesame and chilli dressing.

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However, it’s worth checking the menu and the daily specials.
The French Green Bean and Chicken Salad had a very generous serve of chicken and was great value at $9.90.

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There’s also a range of ready to go wrap/ gourmet sandwich options for about $9….

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….such as the marinated vegetable wrap (lacks flavour and very oily)….

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or a roast vegetable filled Turkish bread.

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It gets busy so go early to grab a table.

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Urban Bean Espresso Bar Menu, Reviews, Photos, Location and Info - Zomato

Thai Chiang Rai Restaurant, Phillip – a budget friendly, tasty meal for three

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Thai Chiang Rai in the Woden Southern Cross Club certainly has the nicest setting for lunch in the Woden CBD.

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Serve sizes are generous and if you usually only need to order one main per two modest appetites to try some good dishes but not end up with more food than you want.

But an odd number (e.g. three people sharing) can be tricky.

One solution is to order one main and one smaller express lunch.

But then it can be tricky to order the rice in the right amounts.

Another solution is to order one curry and one of the special fried rice (and skip the plain rice).

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The chicken and prawn fried rice $16.90 is a good option.

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The Jungle Curry with Pork $17.90, is very good (possibly the best dish so far). It is very light, no having any cream or coconut milk added, with fresh flavours. It is very spicy though, if chilli bothers you.

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The pork and chicken meats are tender at Thai Chiang Rai and good options to order for the curries and stir fries. (The beef is not so tender).

If you are wanting a light meal (also light on price) then the $9.90 serve of plain rice would also be good with the Jungle Curry with pork or chicken (one serve of each for three).

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Canberra Southern Cross Club members are offered a 10% discount.

At lunchtime a glass of wine is $2.90 (although this may be increasing to $3.90 soon).

Thai Chiang Rai Restaurant Menu, Reviews, Photos, Location and Info - Zomato

Silver Fox, Curtin – a first look at a couple of brilliant salad options for lunch

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Silver Fox has recently opened in the spot where Delissios used to be in Curtin.

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Parking is easy and it’s just a few minutes drive from the Woden CBD.

Pleasant décor and friendly, helpful staff make it an attractive place for lunch. It is also fairly quiet and an easy place for conversation.

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In addition to pizza, pasta and grills, Silver Fox offers a couple of interesting salad options that are truly good!

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An excellent fruit and nut salad of strawberry, pear, brazil nut and almonds with rocket, red onion, mint and balsamic vinaigrette ($18 for the regular size), has got the perfect balance of sweet, crunch and mint and is generous with the nuts.

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An equally good, but perhaps a little more oily, warm roast vegetable salad  ($20 for the regular size) of sweet potato, pumpkin, carrot and celery with walnuts, red onion, baby spinach, semi-dried tomato has a seriously good maple-cinnamon toffee dressing. It’s especially good topped with prawns (an extra $8 for 6) but I’ve also heard the crispy calamari ($6 extra) is terrific.

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Half serves are offered for a little less cost e.g. $15/$18 compared to $18/$20 for the regular size  but it’s good to get the larger serve for not much more and share both between two people.

Other good choices are said to be the Creamed Chicken Penne Pasta with pine nuts, broccolini, baby spinach, parmesan and oregano $22, Seafood Aglio Olio Linguine with prawns, squid and smoked salmon, caper berries, fennel, cherry tomatoes, and rocket $25 and the Mexican Beef Pizza with spiced beef and beans, jalapeno peppers and mozzarella, rocket, corn salsa and cheddar cheese $22. (The Greek Garlic Prawns Pizza $22, also sounds wonderful with herb-garlic butter, prawns, capers and mozzarella with parmesan cheese, fresh red onion, rocket and aioli.)

A great idea would be to take a few friends and share one of each.

Prices are what you would expect for mid-range Italian style restaurants.

There is also a 25% discount offered to Canberra Entertainment Book Holders making it excellent value for good food.

And if you can’t make it to them, they can bring the food to you at work.

There’s even a discount for 5 (1/2 price for one meal ) or 10 (one meal free).

Serve sizes are the same as those in the restaurant and meals are delivered in clear take-away plastic containers or pizza boxes as appropriate.

Glasses of wine start at $7 a glass.

BYO wine is an option for $10 corkage per bottle.

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Silver Fox Bar and Grill Menu, Reviews, Photos, Location and Info - Zomato