Restaurants
Enlightened Cuisine
Open today
5:30 pm - 10:00 pm
113 Queensbridge St
Southbank, VIC, 3006
Enlightened Cuisine
A haven for vegetarians, Enlightened Cuisine is an entirely vegetarian restaurant located a short stroll from Crown Casino in Melbourne. All the classic Chinese dishes are offered, but with mock meat alternatives, plus unique vegetable creations.
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Dining Options
- A-la-carte
- Indoor Dining
- Eat-in
Price Guide
- Mains under $30
Cuisine
- Vegetarian
- Chinese
Licensing
- BYO
Menu
- Lunch
- Dinner
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Not being a vegetarian but having friends who are, they took us to this established restaurant that features 'meat' dishes that are made from soy! We dined on 'lemon chicken', 'sweet and sour pork', 'sizzling lamb' and 'fish claypot', and were impressed by how close to the 'real thing' they were! Having said that, by the end of the night I was craving for an authentic, good steak!
This is my favourite restaurant of all time. Although it is a purely vegan/vegetarian restaurant, it is a place to take meat eaters to. They have all the chinese style dishes you would find at any common restaurant but by going to a restaurant like this everyone is included. I would highly recommend the prawn toast, steamed fish with olive sauce and the spicy nasi goreng fried rice. Your best bet if you don't know what to order, is the banquets. Banquets are minimum 2 people per style and they have three styles. If you go with more than 2 people (say 4, 6, 8 etc) I would recommend that each pair of people chose a different banquet. This way you get to sample much much more and you get more food. Saturday nights would need a booking (and new years, chinese new year) but other than that, you can just rock up.
We went there for my partner's birthday with a group of eight people in total. We ordered a banquet each, 3 different ones, as I remember it.
Due to the fact that all the food was put on a turning table everybody was able to try everything, which gave the event the perfect party atmosphere. The food was delicious and plentiful. I reckon it would have been enough for all of us if we had only ordered 6 banquets.
The food is excellent, best mock meat I ever had. You could actually trick some meat lovers into going there and see whether they spot the difference. Everybody who is not yet convinced that eating meat is pointless, should try the enlightened cuisine to get to understand.
Get enlightened, folks!