Limon Restaurant

Without a doubt, Limon is my local. More so than Seoul Bistro was due to its proximity with my home. Just a quick nip down the road for a place where we will always have a table, an excellent feed for a cheap price and where everyone we bought has had a good time. I have probably been here about six times, most of which I have stopped taking photos because I end up ordering this same thing. I've also tried nearly everything on their menu. The only thing I don't like about the place is parking is limited.

Limon has an extremely dingy sign, its not neon but watch out for fairy lights and you'll be right.

The interior is a simple little affair, lots of red patterned table tops that can be easily assembled for more seating space! Here is their menu!

With our powers combined!

This is the start of every meal I have there. Their very excellent dips platter! So from the top going clockwise its baba ganoush, a lovely smokey number, cecik, yoghurt, garlic and cucumber, hummus, the king of dips and then cemen, a spicy and salty capsicum and walnut number. My favourite is usually baba ganoush but I actually love the cacik here, its amazing with their bread. The dips platter is a meal in itself basically!

The dips!

For an extra $2 you can get it changed from regular Turkish bread to wonderful cheesy garlic Turkish bread. That's not even a choice, it's such a bargain! The Turkish bread here is baked on site and has a wonderful crust and fluffiness. I love Turkish bread so much, it's the leading reason for my fear of braces, the fear that I might not be able to eat bread afterwards with braces insitu.

The bread!

These are the sigara bogregi, little filo pastry wrapped herb, feta and ricotta cheese delights. I wish they were just bigger, but they have a lovely crunch from being deep fried and the salty creaminess of the cheeses is lightened with the taste of dill and mint. I'd just like a bigger serve please, like an entire bowl of them.

We sat outside, pardon the lighting

This was one time when we just got a vegetarian mezze platter for sharing because we weren't that hungry for some reason. It has haloumi, a fresh garden salad, mixed olives, baba ganoush, hummus, cacik, falafal, stuffed vine leaves and tiny sigara bogregi. Its basically a very good entree for a couple haha.

Noice

I really love this lamb cutlet dish, the lamb is frenched beautifully with not a skerrick of meat left behind, there's a perfectly medium rare lollipop of tender lamb meat with a gloriously puddle of creamy mustard sauce that I slather onto the mashed potato and spinach that the lamb rests upon. For a meal that's basically meat and three veg, its a cracked of a dish. I could drink that sauce down, sometimes I buy an extra serve of sauce and just drown my potatoes in it. The lamb cutlets are small, but when are they ever really tomahawk steak size?

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I have no idea what this is. I have a feeling the menus changed since I've last been. I can guess what it is from the photo, but you can too. So that's all I have to say on the matter.

What is this even? Lamb?

VGirl's favourite dish is this falafal plate, six blobs of falafel, Turkish bread, tabbouleh and cecik. This has since been revamped a bit but the idea is still the same. My pick for best falafel in Brisbane is still for King Ahiram in West End but these aren't bad either.

VGirl's fav

Oh man, the Limon style Istanbul kebab is not something I can take lightly, I can NEVER finish this in one sitting. Chips, Turkish bread, a fresh garden salad, haloumi, marinated lamb with capsicum and onion. You get it initially and mock the tiny serving of meat before taking it all home in a takeaway container.

#dying

We failed hard. It makes for a fine second dinner too, might I add!

Failed!

I loved this giant lamb steak with mustard sauce, rice and salad that used to be on the menu. I'm super sad that it's been removed as it was my favourite dish. It was this giant hunk of meat that they grilled to perfection, so tender! You shall be sorely missed giant lamb steak.

Miss you babe.

This is a picture of one of their specials from ages ago, a veggie stack. VGirl was very excited because she never gets the option of a vegetarian special. She hoovered it up and has pined for it ever since.

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Limon Restaurant 
Atmosphere: 5, nothing fancy, brightly lit inside despite its dark interior and big enough inside for lots of people.
Service: 7, really good service actually. Even single time I'm here, the waiters are super friendly and happy to explain anything. 
Food: 10, I love this place. My family go here all the time for good reason!