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2015-07-29
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I'm always on the lookout for healthy stuff in my area. Needed lunch and decided to try this cafe.The lunch set comes with a soup of the day, plus a drink or dessert. For a drink I got the cucumber cooler, which is lime + soda + cucumber juice. I thought it was great, and they bring syrup on the side, which I liked, because lime sodas are too often loaded with sugar.The soup was minestrone. I'll admit that I'm not really a minestrone person. The bread was good though.I got the roasted chicken fo
The lunch set comes with a soup of the day, plus a drink or dessert. For a drink I got the cucumber cooler, which is lime + soda + cucumber juice. I thought it was great, and they bring syrup on the side, which I liked, because lime sodas are too often loaded with sugar.The soup was minestrone. I'll admit that I'm not really a minestrone person. The bread was good though.
I got the roasted chicken for the set meal, which comes with two sides. The chicken was a thigh and a drumstick. The skin tasted strongly of thyme and there was a thin gravy poured over it. The chicken pieces were plump, tender, and juicy. It doesn't beat out Flamin Frango or La Rotisserie, but it is very good chicken.For sides I got mushrooms and carrots. The mushrooms were a little disappointing. They looked kinda like they had a cream sauce on them, but they weren't very creamy and they weren't richly mushroom flavored, if you know what I mean. The carrots on the other hand were fantastic. Nice and crisp-- not mushy-- with a hint of vinegar and lots of chopped cilantro, plus some spice.
Summary: it was a pretty good meal, and I'd come back and try some other stuff.
My wife got the fish of the day, which was a barramundi. It seemed to be flour-dusted and pan fried. On the side she got roast cauliflour, which she said wasn't as charred as she would have liked, and butternut squash, which was just butternut squash.Her general opinion was that nothing was very exciting, but all of it was legitimately healthy. A lot of 'healthy' places take healthy food, but then cook it in tons of fat. It tastes good, but there's really no point to it. Here, everything was prepared in a healthy manner, and that made it a little on the bland side, but at least there was a point.
I guess I'd concur with all that, except I'd say that the carrots were legitimately exciting (I don't think I've ever said that before).
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There were large crowds around all the G/F restaurants on Hillier, but it was easy to get a seat at lunchtime on a Monday at the Kinnet Cafe.
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