What was this big yellow ball in the sky? I seem to remember seeing something like it a long time ago!
Brighton in the sun is amazing - official - so up and off to Iydea for breakfast - it didn't disappoint. ( www.iydea.co.uk )
Completely different atmosphere than at lunchtime, a calm, purposefulness of feeding people breakfast whilst getting on with the main task, preparing for lunchtime. Interesting to experience these two facets of the place.
I had been intrigued by a stir fry item of Avocado mushroom and tomato (avocado feature a lot on the breakfast menu) so I went for a Vegan option small full breakfast - you have to pace yourself! - I chose double stir fry instead of eggs (why would anyone not?!) with another "Beet this" drink because I had like it so much the day before. My first impression was that everything, the beans, sausage, hash brown, stir fry was home made - wow!
- Full Vegan Breakfast "Iydea" style
Kate was very bold and chose the Vegan Brunch Muffin consisting of "Avocado, sausage, balsamic roasted tomato, hummus, spring onion & our own special fruity sauce in a toasted muffin". I think the fact that it arrived in a burger wrapper sealed the deal for our Kate!
- Just look at that wrapper!
- and within the wrapper ...
With us both feeling replete it was time to walk off some of those calories whilst shopping (we girls know how to multi task!). Kate needed to update her wardrobe and there was so much choice of where to shop, she ended up getting outfits for all her Christmas dinners/parties and the work wardrobe found quite a few new occupants!
We were both still in pursuit of Vegetarian shoes and a trip to a shop of the same name (Vegetarian shoes) plus a return visit to Irregular Choice saw us both happy with quite a number of purchases! - I will post a picture of them all when we get home (well, maybe all of them!).
Lunch was Infinity cafe which is connected to the Infinity shop (obvious really). I have used the internet to buy a number of things from the shop in the past, they have a number of speciality flours and other goods you can struggle for elsewhere. I needed Coconut flour as that is the only ingredient I need ready to try a Parmesan style cheese I've been wanting to make (maybe from "Artisan Vegan cheeses"?) when I get home. ( www.infinityfoodscafe.co.uk www.infinityfoods.co.uk )
Back to lunch, to be honest neither of us were starving - hungry even - but we had set a task to eat here so in we went, good decision. All the food is freshly made, I had the Houmus, spinach, carrot, beetroot & alfalfa sandwich which had home made wedges and Vegan Mayo as an option (it would have been rude to refuse!), Kate went for the meze. Let's just say that there wasn't very much left at the end!
- so what's "optional" about wedges and mayo?
- A Meze (stopped short of a pun!)
Full stomachs, full shopping bags it's back to the hotel for a rest and a snooze before dinner
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It all had to end somewhere, these fantastic meals couldn't go on, surely. They didn't, dinner was a disaster.
We picked Bombay Aloo because it was on a list of Veggie restaurants we had picked up in the shoe shop and wanting to give our business to Veggie establishments we chose this over any other Indian restaurant. They offer an all you can eat buffet for £4.95, for starters there were onion bhajees which were inedible, Pakoras which actualy were nice and poppadums with all the usual garnishes. For main it was boiled rice and a number of pots of curries which we found, without exception to be watery, bland and tasteless. Luckily neither of us were very hungry so we ate a little and felt that at least we hadn't wasted a lot of money.
Walking back to the hotel we "bumped into" my son's really good friend who has just started at Brighton Uni, what are the chances? (please, Kevin, don't work it out!)
What did we think of Brighton? - well, before we left we booked our hotel ready for VegFest in March - nuff said!
Tomorrow we head for Bath.
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