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?

<3

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! 

Agora

So the Boyfriend and I were debating where to go to for lunch, he suggested Cafe Wrapture. He always suggests Cafe Wrapture, its like his MacDonald's or something, its all he ever wants to eat. Breakfast? Cafe Wrapture. Lunch? Cafe Wrapture? Dinner? Wait, its not open for dinner, so we better go before 2pm Cafe Wrapture. He argues that it is super tasty, cheap and filling, apparently they recognise him by sight now. As of this writing, I estimate he has eaten here at least 8-12 times since we met.

I, as a food blogger, vehemently disagreed and suggested we go somewhere new. So wandering West End it was, after much arguing about cuisines and prices, we ended up outside Agora. He wanted a kebab, I liked the look of the menu. It was in a cute part of West End, I guess along busy Boundary Street. I should have known something was wrong however, when there was no one there at lunch time.

DUN DUN DUN

We sat down to dinner inside the restaurant, we were asked where we wanted to sit and we went inside since we thought it would be cooler. It was quite dusky inside. I don't think I took a photo cause there was nothing particularly fantastic about the decor, nor particularly disgusting either.

We got given a carafe of cool water and the Boyfriend ordered a Sprite but had to settle with a Solo because they ran out. I took a picture of the bottle because of the weird shape, why would the bottle have that weird thimble like blob there?

What is this even for?

I got a lamb shish kebab. Unlike the description, it was actually missing a whole of things listened and I wasn't informed of the changes which was a bit annoying. The description actually reads that it comes with a side salad, mashed potato, rice, toasted turkish bread and some yoghurt and cucumber sauce. I think there was something else, but I can't find the menu that I got for the life of me and the picture I took is blurry as hell. It came out minus the mashed potato.

Lamb shish kebab.

Generally it was okay, it was at least edible. Nothing special, nothing completely disgusting either. The lamb was cooked to a slightly chewy well done, I didn't spot anything particularly fantastic about the seasoning, if anything it could've done with some at all really. The turkish bread was crisp but not the best I've ever had, Banneton's in Woolloongabba does a better one. The salad didn't have any gross bits, no dressing or anything interesting. The rice was fluffy but hey, rice is rice. The yoghurt sauce was tasty, but quite plain I think.

He ordered a chicken kebab with BBQ sauce, which came with a side of chips. Neither of us were particularly impressed with the presentation, we were eating at the restaurant and the kebab came in a white paper/foil packet and the chips were in that very fairground red and yellow chips box. They were very crunchy but seemed like they came straight out of a frozen packet and were not seasoned at all. The kebab was average, he felt like he could've gotten better at the ISPA kebab place up the road, in half the time and with half the price too!

Best presentation ever.

Fancy

General thoughts from me, nothing interesting, I'd not eat here again. Every time I mentioned writing this post or asking for details, my Boyfriend was very vocal about how much he disliked this place. At least it has belly dancing on Fridays?

Atmosphere: 4/10. Clean, not particularly interesting, cool and quite dim.
Service: 3/10. Can't think of anything positive or negative to say really.
Food: 4/10, ehhh, I could eat it. My Boyfriend heartily replies 0/10, and a comment of never again, its unedible and possibly the worst I've ever had.