Au Lac Vegetarian Restaurant

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I'm transitioning into vegetarianism. It's actually quite difficult; not because I miss eating meat, but because there is no where to eat in Canberra. I struggle enough eating at home with my family when I'm met with teary eyes and frowns when I explain for the billionth time that "ah, sorry, I won't be eating that."



I come from an Italian background so my Nonna thinks that cooking organic veal still makes me a vegetarian. It's even harder when I go out for dinner with friends. There is no where that my meat-eating friends and I can happily dine at where we are all loaded with choice. They have pages to choose from and I can only order a vegetable stack swimming in oil or a salad.

Until the clouds part and the light shines on one of the only vegetarian restaurant in Canberra, Au Lac.

It's incredibly cheap ($6 for an entrée, $12 for a main, $5 for dessert) and it's all beautiful, healthy and vegetarian! There are soups, stir fries, beautiful vegetables cooked in clay pots with sticky yummy sauce, spring rolls, banana split, ice cream. Many of the dishes come with 'chicken' or 'beef'. It's tofu – but my meat eating friends can't tell.

We can all dine happily in the cheery and newly refurbished restaurant in Dickson. Everyone dines here from families to couples, groups of friends, students and professionals and many meat eaters too.



Service is impeccable and food arrives fast. It's open for lunch and dinner every day (except Monday) and is BYO. Make sure to order the young coconut juice, and the fresh spring rolls, and the eggplant clay pot, and the Buddha delight. Ah, why not try it all.

If only there were more vego places like it.

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