Ganaeshaas Villas

I'm back, I've finished my thesis so I've finally going to have a bit more time on my hands to catch you up on lots of yummy food adventures.

First up, a long long time ago, a small group of us went out for vindaloo against violence, we wanted to go to veg nirvana but it was booked out, tried to go to ganesh on st georges rd but it had closed down. So we went to Ganaeshaas Villas.

It's a tiny slightly run down looking place that is all vegetarian but I was pleasantly suprised by how g/f it was. They were also to ensure that we only had vegan dishes.

Most of us had the combo deal below. It was tasty and super filling and not too spicy even for us mild eaters. I can't believe that the masala dosa was g/f, so yummy. I'm a little rusty on details since it was so long so I'll let the pics doing the talking, but I will certainly go back.

(this one clearly wasn't g/f but the rest is)

Ganaeshaas Villas
4B Cramer St
Preston
9471 9399

Cedar bakery

A couple of weeks ago, Erin and I went to Cedar bakery, it is a Lebanese bakery and small grocery store that is pretty similar to A1 bakery on Sydney rd, Brunswick. All of the bakery options are super cheap at approximately $2-3.50 each. It's situated on the Thornbury side of bell st, just after high street branches off to plenty rd.

I decided to get a spinach pie, excuse the blurriness :

and a plain oregano pizza with za'atar topping:

And Erin got a oregano pizza with salad. It was massive and filled with a lot more than the usual ones at A1 and Tabets (also on Sydney rd). It had lots of spinach, mushrooms, olives, onion and tomato:

Not only was the salad fillings healthier, but the oregano pizza and spinach pie pastry seems to be much healthier, it wasn't oily at all and was more bread like.

I really enjoyed the lemony spinach pie, and the plain oregano pizza would have been enjoyable to most people, but it had rosemary on it which I hate, next time I will opt for the large, healthy salad oregano pizza which might dull the rosemary flavour a bit.

Cedar Bakery

33-37 High St, Preston VIC 3072

(03) 9484 4999 ‎
Open 7 days- 8am-7pm.