Sunday, March 13, 2011

Cheap Vegetarian Cuisine in Footscray

I was walking home from my shopping adventures when I came across a place called "Lentil as Anything". They are a purely vegetarian eatery where you eat what you want and "pay as you feel". It is quite interesting, there is a donation box at the front of the store on the counter and in which you place donations into before you serve up your meal. The food was delicious, a lot of Dhal, yummy treats, spinach rolls and curry based sauces thrown in with pasta. It was all so tempting. I could smell it from out in the street!

A simple paragraph from their website,

Lentil as Anything is a series of 3 pay as you feel restaurants located in Melbourne, Australia. There are currently 3 restaurants in St Kilda, Abbotsford and Footscray all serving healthy and delicious vegetarian food on a trust basis. The pay as you feel philosophy is simple – we invite you to pay what you think the food and the experience is worth – and invite you to also donate towards a philosophy that places human dignity above profit. All donations and payments are made into an anonymous box. Anonymity, in our view, preserves dignity and promotes trust and feelings of social inclusion.

And now they have started doing "breakfast". Hmmm...

I wonder how many people pay nothing at all and eat more than one serve of food? Probably plenty.

I did empty a handful of coins totalling up to $10 into the donation box as I felt it would go to a great cause.... and probably to make up for the people in front of me who did not pay a cent.

You all have to try it! It's yummy, cheap and vegetarian!

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