lunch @ Nourishak
Hey guys, blogger Anita is backkk! Just kidds.
It has been SO SO LONG since I’ve actually had an eating out post bcos . .. I have not been eating out as you already know. My last outing was Sept2020 o_O it’s kinda hard to believe but it’s true!
Earlier this month I had a lunch date with Tina here at Nourishak. I chose this place not bcos of the food it serves lol but bcos it’s a fairly new place & I guess not a lot of ppl has heard about it AND we came on a Wednesday so it was . .. not busy. AND they have 4 customer parking spots available! Of course, the food did play a role in my decision but mostly I wanted to come here bcos I know there’d be like no ppl haha
If you recognize this exterior. .. it used to be a cafe called Cafe Lavi, which I’ve visited once before. I know my photo is cut off but the black sign on the building still says Cafe Lavi.
Anyway, it is tucked in a quiet street south of Jasper Ave. I shouldn’t say it’s quiet actually. .. the neighbourhood is quiet but there’s construction -.-”
Their patio. On the left side of the fence is the parking lot.
It is semi-basement suite. I wished Edmonton had more of these half-level establishments. I just find them to have more character, you know?
As expected, no one was there besides the 2 staff members. The interior is the same as before, when it was Cafe Lavi. It was very cozy~
Loved these lights!
My table looked exactly the same as this (there were 2 tables like this in the ‘booth’).
There’s another ‘booth’ next to mine. The space on the end of the restaurant honestly reminded me of an interview/TV show filming set lol it was a nice background & the 2 colours of the 2 couches just pop!
Their menu is very small so great for those who are troubled by extensive menus haha they have bagels, soup, 6 signature sandwiches, & a dessert croffle that you get to choose the flavour for. Just prior to ordering, the staff informed us of free add-on’s for sandwiches that were not indicated anywhere. Tbh, the only add-on’s I heard were lettuce & caramelized onion, & Tina & I chose the latter.
*but in the end, we did not get any caramelized onion in our ordered sandwiches. I’m not sure why. We didn’t ask. Maybe they forgot?
We got 3 items to share so we could try several things!
Tina’s fancy latte
Yeah you know what it is by now! :P
Morning croffle. Tina liked this better than our other choice below bcos she preferred the usual breakfast items - cheese, egg, & ham. While I like these items too, I did not like the purple cabbage. The microgreens were ok & the sauce was ok too but I just don’t like raw cabbage. The croffle portion was good as well.
Caution: eat quickly! Bcos the sauce is VERY liquid-y. Both Tina & I ended up with a pool of sauce on our plates. It was not pleasant. It was super messy. I don’t know how this can be take-out a-able. The croffle portion, esp the bottom layer, would be soggy & the sauce would just end up in the bottom of the packaging. ..
The bulgogi donair. I had high expectations for this bcos I like bulgogi & I like the donair sweet sauce! WOOOW This was great! A lot of lettuce as you can see, taking up like 40% of the donair. The bulgogi was about 1/3, which wasn’t bad, considering. .. it could be less than a third. You know what I mean? The flavour was overall very sweet, as it should be. This one was slightly less saucy than the previous but nonetheless, we ended up with a pool of sauce AGAIN. I don’t know how to eat these!!
*Note: both sandwiches were served with several pieces of fried seaweed snack. They’re so good!!!!
Our dessert croffle, which was Belgian chocolate flavour. Served with ice cream, chocolate sauce that was way too dense for anything (it’s more like a spread; don’t even think about pouring it), kiwi, whipped cream & 4 pieces of croffle.
You know, I’ve never tried the pairing of kiwi + chocolate. Probably bcos I don’t have kiwi in my diet often :P but it wasn’t a good for me. I find kiwis really tart, unless it’s the golden ones, so I normally blend it into stuff. The combo of the tart kiwi & dark chocolate just didn’t work for me. Let me hear your opinion!
Here’s that end-space again. Looks like a studio, right?!
Anyway, I loved the iced Americano <3 not as dark as I would have wanted it to be but hey! It’s my 1st pandemic iced Americano at a dine-in haha the sandwiches were generally good but they really need to work on their sauce viscosity... It was literally like water! It was highly messy to eat. I mean, I wanna recommend dine-in but it’ll be messy. If you take it to-go, the packaging paper would be drenched & if for a prolonged time, your carb is gonna be soggy too. It’s an issue that needs to be addressed IMHO. It wasn’t like the sauce was flavourless. .. I think decreasing amount of sauce may work? Or somehow add a thickening agent? I don’t know! I did genuinely like the flavours though. As for the dessert. .. well, it wasn’t bad. Everything minus the kiwi was good haha
Would I visit again? Likely!
When? TBD.
