Vegan Restaurant West End — Restaurant in Brisbane City

My visit to this vegan restaurant on June 9, 2025, at 09:46 AM AEST was an intriguing yet frustrating experience. Touted for health benefits, a plant-based diet here promises reduced heart disease risk and lower cholesterol, appealing to wellness seekers. Ethically, it aligns with animal welfare, avoiding the suffering tied to meat production. However, as a meat enthusiast, I found the absence of steak—a nutrient-dense option rich in iron and protein—disappointing. Meat, when sustainably sourced, supports ecosystems through grazing, offering advantages vegan diets may lack in bioavailability of certain nutrients.

My intent to order steak was thwarted, forcing me to explore vegan options. These often rely on processed substitutes laden with chemicals like emulsifiers, stabilizers, and artificial flavors to mimic meat texture and taste. Such additives, including phosphates and synthetic preservatives, contribute to environmental harm by increasing industrial waste and water pollution during production. The reliance on monocropped soy or palm oil—linked to deforestation—further degrades ecosystems, contradicting the restaurant’s eco-friendly image. The irony is stark: chemicals intended to enhance vegan appeal may accelerate environmental decline, undermining the very sustainability they promote.

While the restaurant’s ethos is admirable, the lack of meat choices and the chemical footprint of vegan alternatives left me skeptical. A balanced menu accommodating diverse dietary needs, including ethical meat, might better serve health, ethics, and the planet.

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Visited this vegan restaurant on June 9, 2025, at 09:46 AM AEST. Offers health benefits like lower heart disease risk and ethical animal welfare focus. Missed steak, a nutrient-rich option supporting ecosystems via grazing. Vegan substitutes use chemicals like emulsifiers and preservatives, harming water quality and linked to deforestation from soy/palm oil, contradicting sustainability. Frustrating lack of meat choices and chemical impact left...

• Staff doesn't seem to understand English. It's just better to say, sorry we don't take request.... It's fine to say that... But then don't take request and not deliver...

• Stir fry items should't have gravy.... it's a rule for stir fry items to have just a thick sauce lightly coating the ingredients...... Ordered a stir fry vegan chicken and got a gravy instead...... with uninterested and cliche answer that we do it like this...

**spaghetti used in place of noodles. Better price it more but give noodles in Asian cuisine.

** Chicken satay was deep fried.... Better price it a bit more but give the grilled vegan finger version available in the market....

** Satay sauce was worse than ordinary.... You can't even taste peanut in it, forget anything thing else.... It takes some skill to make peanut sauce that bad....

** Satay noodles were same just bland and imbalanced, basic flavour just sweet and salt... No balance..... It felt like have some ordinary curried cream tasting pasta dish ...... Better name it as pasta not noodles as you are using pasta not noodles...

** Garlic prawns is a complete scam with 10 PCs of 3mm thinly sliced carpaccio of vegan prawns and 350 gms of vegetables.... Better call it garlic vegetables not garlic prawns...be honest!

Increase the price , use correct ingredient, be honest, put some flavor, balance the flavors, learn basic English to communicate...

All in all, extremely ordinary and very cheap with big portions....Good for someone looking for a budget eating.....

Most importantly, if the people take a little more interest, they can still make it remarkable with same...

They are amazing! The food, service and price are all 5 star. Vegan or not, you have to try it. I take my family (1 Vegan, 2 plant based and 1 meatasaurus) and we all love it. They have an Inala store so if you can't get to the city and you're on the west side of Brisbane drop in, you won't regret it. My wife introduced me to the store before I was plant based and she had been wanting to go there for ages (The Inala store). I was sceptical at first as there wasn't many options for vegans back then and most were hit and miss. We ordered a bit of everything to share between us. The food was rolled out in a flash and we were all digging in. My first bite was into the "duck roll"....... Wow, hats off to the chef! It was full of flavour, the texture felt like I was eating duck and they didn't last long. Every dish that followed impressed us all more and more.

We all ate until we couldn't fit any more in. Surprisingly it didn't sit heavy in my belly. The usual feelings that you get after a huge meal weren't there and we all felt so good.

The owner is one incredibly nice human being, passionate about his beliefs and it resonates.

We have been there 10+ times and it is consistent every time.

I have no affiliations with the vegan restaurant, I will promote excellent customer service and these guys are...