Indie Feature: The Serotonin Eatery

Please provide details of your venue including:

Address: 52 Madden Grove, Richmond

Phone Number: 9482 2856

Book online (and view menu): zomato.com/serotonin-eatery

What sort of food/drink do you offer? Do you have any specialties or signatures? The Serotonin Eatery is a plant-based cafe providing foods that regulate neurotransmitters and hormone activity within our bodies, keeping our mood and gut happy. At Serotonin Eatery we encourage mood regulation, allowing you to have more energy to enjoy the activities you love.

Our produce is sourced from quality farmers, is organic where possible and has no BAD-itives. Everything on our nutritious menu is created in-house by our talented chefs, with each dish featuring produce in its most natural state. By including all colours of the rainbow in each dish, we are helping Australians increase their daily intake of fruits and vegetables, which currently only 6% of us are meeting. Studies have shown that an increase in daily fruit and vegetable intake is positively correlated with happiness levels. Our eatery is gluten-free, dairy-free, sugar-free.

From the menu: Positive Pancakes: banana pancakes made by dehydrating organic bananas and grounding them into banana flour, served with house-made 100% banana nice-cream, berries and coconut yoghurt covered in strawberries, roasted almond and organic agave; and Deconstructed Sushi: a rainbow bowl of picked ginger, sliced diakon, raw carrot, capsicum, cucumber and avocado, on a bed of warm brown rice and quinoa, served with tamari soy, fresh wasabi paste  and crunchy wasabi peas.

We pride ourselves on offering a whole list of caffeine-free lattes: peanut butter latte, gingerbread latte, golden latte (our house-made ayurvedic anti-inflammatory turmeric latte), cacao coconut latte (our own vegan house-made hot chocolate!). These all come with a smile to add extra happiness to your day!

We also have a whole cabinet of organic, raw vegan desserts: raspberry lamington, vegan golden gaytime, choc mint magnum!!

What kind of setting/atmosphere do we expect from your venue? Serotonin feels like a calming health retreat. I worked with a colour psychologist, so all the tones are designed to stabilise your mood (relax you). We have swings for seats, Japanese tatami sunken booths, couches, a sunny courtyard, and an adjacent dog park where we bring over picnic baskets and blankets for you dine outdoors (nature also boots serotonin levels!)

Are there upcoming events we should know about? Thursday 28 July vegan dinner and Cowspiracy screening. We also have Andrew "Spud Fit" Taylor coming into talk about his year of only eating potatoes!

What separates you from the rest of the hospitality industry? Our service. It's our job to make you happy and we LOVE our job! The "Serotonin Dealers" at Serotonin EEE take pride in guiding your through a dining experience like no other and guaranteeing your leave with a smile.

Serotonin Eatery is a community space: we encourage people to hold breakfast meetings and work from Serotonin. We know where our food comes from and we know what goes into each dish! And we have a dog-friendly courtyard.