Green Gourmet Vegan Newtown

Amazing food and dining experience! We’ve chosen the buffet options both times that we have been here and it’s my favourite thing to do as we get to try heaps of different things and the value is amazing for what we get on our plate! Highly recommend! Especially the bbq pork buns! They’re the best 😍

Dined and dashed into this vegan eatery. The room wasn't overly well presented, however the food wasn't too bad. I ordered the vegan chicken dish. It was nice but the meat was super salty. I wouldn't recommend anyone this with high blood pressure. The customer service was slow they forgot and never bought us out our entrees that we ordered at all. The desserts were really good though. Thank goodness we got 25% off otherwise I don't think I would've came here.

Came here for lunch today and wasn't let down. The food was amazing and the prices were very cheap! Had food from the buffet and it was delicious. The place could have been a bit cleaner but it was a great meal and lovely service. Will definitely be coming back!

We enjoyed their yum cha. It was soooo good!!! Definitely would come back. Their cat, veggie boy is so cute too!

The stuffed taro mushrooms were the standout for me here. The taro was so well cooked and had a nice firm texture. The sauce was mild and refreshing. I also ordered the taro fish but I wish it had a little more crispiness.

The food here is always interesting and delicious. There's a pay-by-weight lunch buffet, and yum cha in the evenings with all your favourites, just made with meat substitutes. It's a vegan restaurant where the food tastes real. Excellent for groups if you want yum cha or a la carte, but just as good for random drop ins for the lunch buffet. The only issue I have would be that when the buffet runs out of dumplings, they don't top it up. So get in early.

My girlfriend is vego but I'm not. She still does get meat cravings tho and had been for the last week. She was getting pretty dam hangry.So we went here and the buffet was great! Don't think your going to eat imitation meat. Think your going to get an alternative Asian food. It still tastes great and leave me more then full! Well priced as well.

Beautifully created dishes, so tasty and very reasonable prices for the sizes they serve. Highly, highly recommend

This is a fantastic vegan restaurant in the heart of newtown. You've got 3 options: - buffet lunch for $8 / 500 grams - buffet dinner for $14 / 500 grams - order off the menu The buffet is awesome as you can try a whole range of vegan dishes (like 'fish' fillets, 'pork' buns, 'chicken' stir fry etc) and you just pay by the weight of your plate. If you have your eye on something special from the very extensive menu then you can add that on to your order. The food is great, very flavour some with a range of interesting textures! Don't expect amazing decor or stellar service - but you're coming for the awesome vegan food and to enjoy the company of your dinner mates! Also pop in next door and you can buy a range of vegan faux meat, pies, curries and even amazing desserts.

My first go at eating all-vegan and I have to admit I really enjoyed the food. I ventured in on a week night around 7pm and it wasn't busy at all so we grabbed a plate each and filled 'em up with buffet style vegan food. As soon as you're done choosing all your goodies you place your plate on a scale and pay by the weight. Staff aren't overly friendly or attentive so this is a good place if you want to go chill out and not be fussed over. I had a spring roll, curry puff, dumplings, broccoli, noodles with Chinese vegetables and a potato curry. There was food made to look like pork and tofu was everywhere but I didn't feel like I was eating vegan as it was full of flavour and not what I expected. There also happens to be a cat that sits in the hallway towards the kitchen/bathroom so if you're into that sort of thing...

Came here before watching a play in Newtown. My friend and I were starving so we decided to do buffet style, so we could eat quicker. Basically you just fill your plate and then they weigh it, and you pay for exactly what you want. I like this, but buffets can get a little bit dangerous in that sense. So my friend and I started piling things on our plate. I got a dim sim, some bbq pork, some crispy chicken, tofu, eggplant, veggies and chow mein. We also split a rice paper roll. My friend's dish ended up being about $19 and mine was $14. Overall everything was good, the stand outs were the bbq pork and crispy chicken. Some of the tofu dishes were just ok. My friend told me that this place doesn't use specific ingredients like onion, garlic or leek in their dishes because it can be harmful to the lungs, heart and liver, which I never knew. I think that's pretty cool. After dinner we got some tofu ice cream. My friend got coconut and I went for my favorite black sesame. Tofu ice cream is interesting. It's different but tasty nonetheless. Overall a good place. Nice staff and not too expensive. Probably better to order a la carte as it is fresher.

Green Gourmet is great news for vegos and coeliacs. Even though I'm neither, I still love it for a healthy lunch fix. The first restaurant opened in Mosman in 1989, which was followed by the Newtown restaurant in 1998 and one in St Leonards in 1992. Now the Newtown outlet has expanded to a Vegan's Choice Grocery shop next door, where you can buy plenty of take-home vegan products. The Chinese menu is 100% vegan, so there's no meat, dairy, garlic or onion in sight, and many of the dishes are wheat and gluten-free. Green Gourmet is open for lunch and dinner seven days. For entrees, I love the selection of steamed dumplings for just under $10. The shredded Beijing "mock duck" wrap is a bit of make-your-own fun, with vegies wrapped in a hand-made, traditional pancake. The chestnut sang choy bow for two is also a clear favourite. Soy mince (don't knock it 'til you've tried it!) blends with snowpeas, sweet corn, mushrooms and water chestnuts in crisp, chilled lettuce leaves.

I write this review with a HUGE HUGE apology to my family.... Last year I went through this Vegan phase after watching the documentary Earthlings. I was determined not to eat any animal product again.... Unfortunately for my family I went through this phase a few weeks before my birthday- which meant, that when it came to deciding what restaurant to go to, I picked a Vegan one - Green Gourmet.... Now I'm sure Vegan does not equal oily and tasteless, yet somehow is this eatery it did. I watched my poor meat eating family endure their tofu pseudo meat - swallowing it down, feigning enthusiasm..... now, I will say what my family couldn't because they were being polite.... this sucks! Veggies are delicious and when cooked well and with great flavours can be simply amazing. Unfortunately that was not the case with Green Gourmet. It seemed like their motto was the oilier the better. The reconstituted meats felt and tasted fake and all in all it was not fun.... I didn't stay Vegan for long after this meal and i'mnot blaming Green Gourmet for my lack of convictions - i just think if you're meant to specialise in a food - you should at least specialise!

Waiters are slow and not very attentive. Food is nice but relatively expensive for the quantity. Nice people though. Average Wait Service + Expensive Food = 2.5 stars (rounded to 3).

Go for the buffet at lunch time as you pay less per gram than at dinner time!! Also, the cake from next door is TINY but awesome... I just wish that they had a better selection of side dishes, steamed veg and the like, to accompany their mains. Yum cha on a Saturday is expensive unless you go as a big group, in which case it ROCKS!

Vegan Yum Cha /Dim Sum. Do I need to say anything else? The choices for dumplings and buns are huge and we always leave here so full. They label their menu so you can find all the great gluten free options amongst the deliciousness. The staff are quick and efficient and don't take long to bring your food out. I haven't tried to buffet yet, but I'll update my review when I do!

Absolutely delicious, fairly authentic Chinese food in the hip Newtown neighbourhood. Prices are normal for Sydney and the portions are reasonable. Service is rather inattentive, but you don't go for Chinese food for great service usually. The food is awesome and worth going for that. They have dishes with mock meats, tofu or just vegetable ones. Highly recommended.

This place has always been one of my favourites. I was honestly a bit sceptical about the idea of vegan yum cha at first but one visit was enough to convince me otherwise. I actually took a large group of non-vegetarians here and they all reported really enjoying the food which is a good sign. And we were pleased when our cost per person worked out to be significantly cheaper than other yum cha places we frequent. Their normal menu is really good too, and I like that they use a lot of different vegetables that are less commonly used in food found in Sydney. I am pretty big on onion/garlic etc. so for their food flavours to win me over without using those was pretty unexpected. Also I tried one of their vegan cheesecakes - passion fruit flavour - reluctantly as vegan cheese tends to gross me out, but it was actually my favourite cheesecake I have ever eaten, and I tend to get it whenever I go back.

The rave and hype of the green gourmet restaurant was overrated and incapable to live up to expectations of advanced taste yet the only positive was the customer service and the fact that it was easy to locate. The majority of the factors that encompassed our experiences were disappointing. First of all the the food was terrible, it was bland, tasteless and visually unappealing. Secondly the food quality and quantity was overpriced. Lastly at the very end they ripped us off as they overcalculated the price. Therefore in the end bestowing upon us a terrible experience! I would not recommend this terrible excuse of a restaurant to anyone, ever!!!

Guilt-free icecream! Everytime I'm in the area, I stop by for a scoop of black sesame tofu icecream. It may not sound appetizing but it is delicious. They also have unique flavors like durian and goji berry. I haven't tried their restaurant food yet but I will eventually.

We ordered online through foodora...the food tool one and half hours to get there to us in Glebe...that wasn't the worst of it...the food was awful ... "mock pork" amongst other dishes and it was very disappointing..it was cold (of course because of the slow delivery)...I am afraid I wouldn't try it again

Passed the buffet to instead order off the menu, amazing dumplings that i'd highly recommend (specifically the pork buns). Quick service and incredibly reasonable prices, definitely a diamond in the rough.

The buffet can range from pretty good to very disappointing, you never know which it will be. If you get there for dinner shortly after they open the various dishes will still retain an appealing level of heat, otherwise it can be tepid. Tepid food is not very appetising nor does it follow safety guidelines of keeping food either hot or cold. To enjoy this cuisine you have to really like gluten - which is the all-purpose bland food used to carry flavours that are supposed to resemble various meats. This can be stomach-churning to a life-long vegetarian who does not want to even know what various meats taste like, or even worse, feel like. But if you are not overly sensitive it is possible to enjoy the BBQ "pork", etc. The restaurant is popular and often crowded with Asian families. I would imagine that most are followers of the same religion - Taoism, which eschews garlic and onions, and alcohol. It is a distinctive cuisine, value for money, and if you select carefully can be healthy (i.e. don't fill up on rice, noodles, dumplings and spring rolls!). None of my non-vegetarian friends or family members have ever been enthusiastic after having been taken to this restaurant, so I would save it for your own pleasure.

I used to come here for dinner all the time way back around 2008, and have recently started revisiting. Yum cha is more or less not a thing if you're a vegetarian like me, so it was very novel to come to Green Gourmet's weekend one and be able to eat every dang dish brought out - with the caveat that if you didn't sit near the kitchen everything would get snapped off the tray before it came anywhere near you. Maybe that's changed? but back then it was a major drag and stopped me coming. Anyway, the buffet is great (it's pay per weight, and lunchtime is cheaper but I think the buffet is also reduced in variety then): they have a range of faux meat dishes and the "pork" buns are doughy and divine. Highly recommend the faux pork dish from the buffet, and something or other that's tied in a knot and tastes vaguely chicken-y with a chewy texture (I'm not selling it very well, huh. Trust me, it's delicious) - sometimes I pop in to get those two dishes in a takeaway container and throw them in my homemade work lunches through the week. Go to their shop next door for tofu ice cream.

I am not a vegan, far from it in fact, but I have a vegan friend and we went here one night for her birthday. Green Gourmet is an interesting place. It is self serve and you pay for your food by the weight. Score for me because at times I tend not to be a very big eater. This happened to be the case on this particular night, not because I wasn't hungry but rather because I didn't find the food very inspiring. As Danielle L previously noted, the food was especially oily and bland, a contradiction to their name 'Green Gourmet'. Most of the food was cold, despite it sitting on hot plates for what was probably the better part of the day. Others ordered desert, but I just couldn't stomach it. And I don't think it is a problem with vegan cuisine because I am keen to visit other vegan restaurants with my friend, but I think it is the way that this restaurant has decided to execute it. Sorry, friend.

I'm a vegetarian and I love going here. Some dishes may not be the best, but I love the crispy skin not chicken and the BBQ not pork. The dumplings are also very nice. They usually have great vegan cheesecake too.

The food here is amazing! If you can fit it in, go to the ice cream/desert shop next door for some sugar free/diary free treats! Who could ask for more?

Some of the best mock-meat vegan food in Sydney. There is an elaborate buffet (lunch and dinner) or an a la carte menu. I recommend the mock duck, crispy chicken or calamari! They also have an awesome selection of raw cheesecakes and their tofu ice-cream is delish. They also have a grocery store next door stocked up with all kinds of yummy vegan essentials! Love this place.

This was my second time at this restaurant and I must say, I enjoyed the first time so much more, we ordered the spring rolls, they were really good. Sang choy bow also was tasty, bbq pork was ok, the fried eggplant parcels was not great and its usually one of my favs, the dumplings were ok as was the salt and pepper calamari, and we ordered other things but I cant even remember what it was which is probably a tell tale sign that i was not overly impressed by it, but my biggest dissapointment was the Singapore noodles, they had a strong curry flavor and were very dry, I pretty much ate steamed rice so i felt like I was getting my $30 worth as the bill came to $180 for 6 of us. I would probably go again being that my first visit was great and I remember I enjoyed everything I had and they have so much to offer on the menu, over 60 dishes, and I would try something different, being that I am not vegan, I suppose some things are an aquired taste and the food there is fresh and well prepared.