Tuesday 11 June 2019

Eating Out: Grown (ATP9 edition)

Grown is a delightful vegan cafe, and my mum's favourite vegan place to visit. A couple of months ago, we had been to the Gallery of Modern Art and QLD Art Gallery to see the 9th Asia-Pacific-Triennial exhibition. It was a grey and rainy day, so when deciding where to go for lunch afterwards Grown was the obvious choice - Mum and I have been there on many a rainy morning! You can read about some of those other visits here.

All three of us had one of their excellent Dark Hot Chocolates, which is perfect in drizzly weather.

Dark Hot Chocolate at Grown


I finally tried the Hash Brown Breakfast, which had one of their amazing hash browns topped with roasted tomato, and served with sauerkraut, greens, white bean puree, and avocado. It was meant to have capsicum puree as well, but I got them to sub with smoked sesame cheese.

Hash Brown breakfast at Grown


Mum had her favourite order... in fact I don't think she's ever strayed from it. Scrambled tofu (with sesame cheese and toast), and an added hash brown. This is excellent, I can understand why she keeps going back for it.

Scrambled Tofu with Hash Brown at Grown


Dad went for their Avocado Toast, which comes with housemade vegemite and smoked sesame cheese.

Avocado Toast at Grown


As for the APT9 exhibit, it was a bit lacklustre compared to previous occasions. Normally I find several pieces that I love, but this year I was a bit meh. But there were a couple that were cool. These are photographs of nori art on rice. All the black is painstakingly cut out nori sheets. The annoying thing was that it was women who did the actual cutting out and assembling of the art (they had a videos showing them doing it), and then a man took the photos and it was credited as his exhibit and work. Pfft.

APT9 at GOMA


I loved this amazing bee photograph! (Though unfortunately they also had a hive of live bees as part of the exhibit, and I don't think any animals should be used as entertainment. The bees were free to come and go, but they were from a bee farmer and were going to be taken back there after the exhibit and have their honey sold.)

APT9 at GOMA


Finally, this was awesome. Like a big apartment building facade, with each window giving a glimpse into a tiny room. Apparently they changed some of the rooms every day as well, so there would always be something new.

APT9 at GOMA


A further note on Grown, they have just changed up their menu to reflect the cooler weather! The avocado and scrambled tofu are still there, and the hash brown breakfast is as well but with some changes. It now has baked beans on it, which I am looking forward to trying!

Grown - 21 Buchanan Street, West End - 07 3036 7213

Cute Kitty Photo of the Post

Winnie


For those who remember Winnie and Doris, I am happy to report that they finally got their forever home! They were adopted together by a wonderful client. This is Winnie, making herself very comfortable in my handbag.

10 comments:

  1. How annoying for the man to get the credit! People do make amazing art out of nori, though. It's one of the things that made me fall in love with bento boxes.

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    1. The work they did was incredible, such fine detail.

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  2. I've decided I need to try to make sesame cheese sometime because I've never heard of until your blog. I don't think it's a thing here!!
    I am so annoyed that the man took the credit!!!! It's just the fact that anyone takes the credit for what someone else does!!
    I'm so happy the kitties got adopted together! I always feel bad when bonds get broken!!

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    1. They almost went separately, but then Winnie's adoption fell through and she got to get adopted with Doris into a wonderful home!

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  3. That is really annoying that the man got the credit because he took the picture, as opposed to the women who actually did all of the painstaking cutting & creating.

    Winnie looks so sweet in your handbag. I'm glad that she & Doris got a forever home together.

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    1. Was she hinting that she wanted to come home with me? Probably just that it was a comfy place to sit. ;) Dim Sim sure did give my bag an extra big sniff that night.

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  4. I mean I KIND-OF get the logic, knowing how galleries and artists like to try and make things neat and tidy with the credits and such. But UGH! If anything it is a collaboration. *sigh* I can't even imagine how much work it is to cut nori sheets

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    1. I know right, it is such delicate work! The women did appear in a video that showed them making them, but no names listed or anything.

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  5. Everything looks so good from Grown, and the bee photograph is awesome!
    Hooray for Winnie and Doris!

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