Nalini’s

ayurvedic food for
body, mind and soul

Nalini’s

ayurvedic food for
body, mind and soul

Nalinis - Plant based

Plant-based

Nalinis - Gluten free

Gluten-free

Nalinis - Ayurvedic

Ayurvedic

Nalinis - Probiotic

Probiotic

Nalinis - Plant based

Plant-based

Nalinis - Gluten free

Gluten-free

Nalinis - Ayurvedic

Ayurvedic

Nalinis - Probiotic

Probiotic

Nalinis - Plant based

Plant-based

Nalinis - Gluten free

Gluten-free

Nalinis - Ayurvedic

Ayurvedic

Nalinis - Probiotic

Probiotic

2x award-winning health food restaurant!

BRONTE

263 Bronte Road

Wed – Sun

11 am – 9 pm

9387 4942

BONDI JUNCTION

1/1 Newland Street

Mon – Fri

11 am – 9 pm

9387 7838

BONDI BEACH

42 Hall Street

7 days

11 am – 9 pm

 

Healthy Indian food is super nourishing. The thali is amazing and generous portions. Turmeric latte was really yummy too (made with coconut milk - they've thought of everything!) Very reasonable priced, especially considering the quality and thoughtful menu. Lovely staff.

Cari L.

5.0
2019-01-01T16:20:43+00:00

Cari L.

Healthy Indian food is super nourishing. The thali is amazing and generous portions. Turmeric latte was really yummy too (made with coconut milk - they've thought of everything!) Very reasonable priced, especially considering the quality and thoughtful menu. Lovely staff.
Delicious nutritious Indian food. Subtle flavours. Very fresh. Have loved every dish every visit. And now at Charing Cross too!

Prue Phillips

5.0
2019-01-01T16:54:47+00:00

Prue Phillips

Delicious nutritious Indian food. Subtle flavours. Very fresh. Have loved every dish every visit. And now at Charing Cross too!
The best Indian food I’ve ever eaten, served quickly and with a smile. I can’t recommend this place enough! Especially for someone with gluten/dairy allergies. Beautiful little restaurant run by a mother and daughter who are happy to talk you through the menu. Highly recommend!

Emma Hayes

5.0
2019-01-01T16:56:06+00:00

Emma Hayes

The best Indian food I’ve ever eaten, served quickly and with a smile. I can’t recommend this place enough! Especially for someone with gluten/dairy allergies. Beautiful little restaurant run by a mother and daughter who are happy to talk you through the menu. Highly recommend!
Amazing unique Indian flavours! Vegan, ayurvedic and super healthy! More places like this are needed!

Daniel Buccheri

5.0
2019-01-01T16:56:46+00:00

Daniel Buccheri

Amazing unique Indian flavours! Vegan, ayurvedic and super healthy! More places like this are needed!
Warm and happy customer service and the food is delicious. The lentil falafels are light and fluffy and their sauces so tasty!

Sean Vitorovic

5.0
2019-01-01T16:57:48+00:00

Sean Vitorovic

Warm and happy customer service and the food is delicious. The lentil falafels are light and fluffy and their sauces so tasty!
Delicious and wholesome Indian food! I really feel and taste the nutrition entering my body and energising me every time I visit. I recommend this place to everyone, vegans and non-vegans!

Thomas Dobson

5.0
2019-01-01T16:58:35+00:00

Thomas Dobson

Delicious and wholesome Indian food! I really feel and taste the nutrition entering my body and energising me every time I visit. I recommend this place to everyone, vegans and non-vegans!
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Nalini's Favourites

Masala Dosa

$12.90
Traditional south Indian rice and lentil crepes with a side of Indian spiced potatoes, coconut chutney, tomato chutney, and dal.

Falafel Bowl

$16.90
Indian spiced falafels, GF tabouli, orange slices, salads, kraut, dill tahini sauce, probiotic hummus, date and tamarind chutney, sprouts, beetroot, with a side of dosa.

Ayurvedic Thali

$14.90
Menu changes every week - please ask our staff for this week's menu. Our tasting platter typically consists of six dishes, each representing a specific taste. It is normally a platter of rice, dal, curry, salads, sauerkraut, roasted vegetables, and poppadoms.

This tasting platter is the Ayurvedic perspective of balanced eating based on the six-taste principle of Ayurveda. The six naturally occurring tastes are sweet, sour, bitter, pungent, astringent, and salty. When we eat all the six tastes in a meal, our bodies feel nourished, satisfied, and balanced.

About

Nalini’s is run by a formidable mother-daughter duo who are passionate health food chefs determined to craft the future of contemporary Indian cuisine. Our food is prepared in a home-cooked style, fresh everyday day with seasonal, local ingredients.

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Vegan, gluten free, refined sugar free ETON MESS cake to celebrate a very exciting announcement 🎉⠀ ⠀ Remember when @chachasicecream was on Campbell Parade? ⠀ ⠀ Well, Chachas is GOING BACK there!⠀ Our Hall Street Bondi Beach location will now be fully Nalinis with more seating, more drinks 🍷 ☕️ 🍵 more dessert 🧁 🍮 🍰 and exciting menu options 🙌⠀ ⠀ Of course you can still get your @chachasicecream fix at Nalinis! We’ll still have a good range of flavors. ⠀ ⠀ We felt combing the food and ice cream was doing both of them and injustice. ⠀ This way the space better suits the needs of a cafe/restaurant and if you needed more flavours because we can never have too many options, @chachasicecream will literally be a hop, skip and a jump away. ⠀ ⠀ As a result our Bondi Beach location on Hall Street will be closed from Tuesday as we move things around and make the space cosy with more seating.⠀ ⠀ We’ve curated an winter menu and we’re BEYOND EXCITED for you to try it - taking Ayurvedic, seasonal dining to a new level 😇⠀
Comforting ramen with an intensely flavoursome broth, light but so satisfying, packed with veggies and low on oil 🍜 ⠀ After having about 3 a day for a week, I became quite the ramen connoisseur 😆⠀ ⠀ Inspired by the amazing vegan ramen I had at @tsrestaurant_jp I am so excited to add our Ayurvedic spin on this amazing Japanese classic⠀ ⠀ From next week, our curry ramen will be available at all our outlets. Perfect for going into winter, our ramen will be ⠀ ⠀ ⭐️ Loaded with ginger, pepper and sesame which creates a beautiful warmth⠀ ⭐️ More Veggies to noodle ratio⠀ ⭐️ Intensely flavoursome and nourishing ⠀ ⭐️ Saltiness in the miso encouraging the dry colon to stay moist liquefying Vata⠀ ⠀ 😇 Don’t worry, Moringa soup will make a comeback too 😇⠀ 📸@monkeyandmekitchenadventures
Have you been craving sweet tastes lately? ⠀ 🤔 What is the Ayurvedic perspective on sugar?⠀ Perfect bite sized, protein packed vegan cinnamon and ginger donuts sweetened with primarily bananas and rice malt 🍩⠀ ⠀ Firstly, according to Ayurveda, nothing is "bad" necessarily. It is all about balance and eating according to YOUR body. ⠀ 🎋 Ayurvedic or Western philosophy - both don't prefer refined sugars for obvious reasons. ⠀ ⠀ From an Ayurvedic perspective, refined sugars affect all 3 dosha.⠀ i) They're overstimulating and hence have an increasing effect on Vata ⠀ ii) They cause liquid retention and weight gain and dullness - increasing Kapha⠀ iii) They're harder to digest placing strain on the liver and pancreas and thus affect Pitta. ⠀ ⠀ Autumn which is characterised by dryness, roughness, wind are very similar to Vata dosha characterestics and hence Autumn is considered Vata season. ⠀ ⠀ 🧁🍬 Sweet, sour an salty taste are recommend in the Vata season to provide the necessary grounding. ⠀ ⠀ If you find yourself reaching out for sweets/sweet tastes, the following can help satisfy the need for grounding your body so desires 😇⠀ ⠀ 1) Favor oily, nourishing foods that are high in protein, high in fat, cooked with warming, stimulating spices and served hot, will keep you grounded through the vata season⠀ ⠀ 2) Breakfasts: Cooked breakfast grains like porridge with spices, congee (with ginger and turmeric) are perfect at this time of year (Should we introduce our porridge again? 😉)⠀ ⠀ 3) Lunch and Dinner: Cooked vegetables with spices (see a theme here? ☺️), hearty grains, soups, and stews are grounding and moisturizing.⠀ ⠀ 4) In general, you’ll want to reduce your consumption of raw vegetables, cold foods, as well as the bitter, pungent, and astringent tastes 👎 (If you’re having raw food, ensure they’re accompanied with higher fats eg. salads with oily dressing to balance out the opposite quality)
The only thing we love as much as cooking is ....renovating ⛏🧱🛠 😂⠀ ⠀ We did up our Bondi Junction space 3 times in 3 years 😆⠀ ⠀ With winter drawing in close, over the next couple of weeks we will be renovating our Bondi Beach outlet to make it even more cosy and have more seating. ⠀ 😇⠀ ⠀ We will announce the exact dates the shop will be closed for renovations once we finalise the dates with our tradies. ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ More seating and more cosiness mean more menu options at Bondi Beach. 🍜🥟🍕🍔🍱⠀ ⠀ 🙌
👸 The Modern day Royal Degustation 👸⠀ ⠀ Indian cuisine is so steeped in history with cultural influences from Portuguese, Mughals and the British. ⠀ ⠀ Today’s Indian food is a real culmination of all these influences that it is hard to believe certain staples of today’s Indian cuisine aren’t actually originally Indian at all.⠀ ⠀ When we were thinking of a theme of Mother’s Day, we thought what would the kings and queens of the past have with today’s dietary habits. ⠀ ⠀ Consequently we made these dishes vegan, and refined sugar free while still maintaining the integrity of these recipes. ⠀ ⠀ The result was a mouthwatering feast that is also really easy on the tummy with Ayurveda and nutritional eating being our overarching theme.⠀ ⠀ This is what our 14 course Mother’s Day degustation looked like (minus the desserts)⠀ ⠀ Swipe right to see our Mother’s Day menu. ⠀ ⠀ It was sooo much fun (and work! 🤣🤣) putting this together 😇
Mum spent Mother’s Day cooking up a feast and feeding other mummas. ⠀ 💓⠀ ⠀ I read somewhere that “If you live and lead by example in such a way that when children think about love, integrity, kindness and truth your children will think about you” - couldn’t agree more! ⠀ ⠀ Working together with mum has brought us closer in ways I would’ve never thought. As a mother I know she’s pretty exceptional but seeing her as a co-worker has deepened our relationship even more so as we get to see each other’s strengths, talents and fears. ⠀ 👩‍👧⠀ ⠀ It is even more inspiring to see mum take on new challenges at her age and transcend her fears surprising all of us.⠀ 👊⠀ ⠀ I’m the lucky girl that gets to spend this lifetime learning from her as we both march on forward fulfilling our respective dharmas in life, spiritually speaking 😇⠀ ⠀ Another super inspirational mummy is our staff member Sammy. Sammy’s 3yr old daughter is in Nepal as Sammy juggles being a student and working for us just so she can secure a good future for her daughter. (Swipe right —>)⠀ ⠀ I can only imagine how homesick she would feel everyday especially on significant days seeing others spending time with their children. ⠀ 😭⠀ ⠀ We’re truly surrounded by a resilient bunch of women and their awe inspiring work ethic. ⠀ Truly, hats off mummas! 🙇‍♀️
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