The restaurant game is notoriously fickle. Most businesses don’t last more than a year, and the ones that do rarely celebrate a five-year anniversary. Not Bodhi, which occupies a Catholic corner of Cook and Phillip Park under St Mary’s Cathedral – in 2018 AD it turned thirty - 30.
The menu includes grilled pumpkin curry with crisp kale; faux-meat sliders; and chickpea-battered cauliflower with roasted peanuts, pickled apple and a tomato and carrot sauce. These sit alongside signature dishes of sweet-and-sour chicken and the vegan faux Peking duck pancakes – two dishes Bodhi served when it opened.
For lunch there are dumplings, a Vietnamese rice-paper wrap, and a bunch of noodle dishes. For dinner there is what Bodhi describes as “Oriental tapas”: dishes such as grilled miso eggplant with radish, pistachio, sunflower seeds, micro herbs and avocado; noki and shiitake mushrooms served with Chinese braised tofu, broccolini and a sauteed spinach puree; and salt, pepper, coriander, tempura konjaku “prawns”. There are also “sliders”, such as the tempeh with Indonesian sticky soy glaze, wasabi red cabbage and apple slaw.
Plus a whole lot more of some of Sydney’s best vegan offerings
RED WINE LIGHT & FRESH REDS
18 Cooke Bros | Fox Valley | Pinot Noir
Adelaide Hills | SA [op]
16 Yelland & Pappas | 'Vin de Soif' | GCM
Barossa Valley | SA [co]
18 Geyer Seaside | Cabernet Franc
McLaren Vale | SA [op]
18 Granite Hills | Gamay
Madeon Ranges | VIC
BIGGER & BOLDER
18 Balmy Nights | 'Red' | Sangiovese
Hunter Valley | NSW
19 Dune | 'Paliomera' | Shiraz
McLaren Vale | SA [pf]
18 Gestalt | 'Rule of Thirds' | GSM
Barossa Valley | SA [co]
17 Bellweather | 'Ant Series' | Tempranillo
Wrantonbully | SA
18 Domenic Portet | 'Fontaine' | Cabernet Sauvigon
Yarra Valley | SA [op]
vintages are subject to change
op = organic practices b = biodynamic
pf = preservative free co = certified organic
Over Three Decades of Bodhi: A Sydney Vegan Institution courtesy of ChezBurton
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