We ordered a green longevity juice ($9) which had a spicy, gingery flavour; a slice of avocado on Midnight Baker freedom loaf with cherry tomatoes ($6) — the most traditional brunch fare and my favourite savoury item — and a buddha bowl ($15) featuring a mix of Italian zoodles (zucchini noodles with smoky paprika walnut "meatballs") and a Moroccan salad of cauliflower rice, carrot, hazelnut, tahini and spices. Everything had an undercurrent of earthiness — it tastes exactly how you expect stereotypically "healthy" food would. To finish we shared a slice of banoffee cake made from banana, date, coconut oil and various other healthy ingredients ($8), deemed the nicest "because it tastes the most like the thing it's supposed to be", and a date-based chocolate donut ($8) with freeze-dried raspberry. The donut, like most raw baking, is very dense. This is good because it's filling but frankly less enjoyable to eat than an airy, gluten-filled ring of sugary dough. My flat white ($4.50) offered a welcome temperature variation and was creamy and delicious.
SERVICE & OTHER STUFF
The service is simple but friendly. There's no table service and only about three or four tables — it's really more geared toward to-go food. You can't fault them for that and you can't fault a raw kitchen for making raw, very obviously healthy food. Whether you enjoy that on not depends on whether that's what you're after.
