The latest venture by Autolyse in Braddon is new juice bar Autolyse Pressed Juice. Located just a couple of doors down from its bakery cafe, a wide window opens up with staff behind it to greet customers. A fridge sits outside filled with the various juices available.
The juice menu is written up above the window (apologies for the slightly blurred zoomed in shot). All juices are $8 for half a litre apart from fresh OJ which is $4.50 for 300ml or $9.50 for a litre. My Breville juicer doesn’t juice vegetables very well so I like to choose juices with veggies in it. I decided to be ‘Super Green’ with baby spinach, kale, parsley, apples, cucumber, ginger and mint.
Customers can pick out their juices from the brightly coloured fully stocked fridge. I think those cans at the bottom are coconut water.
Though refreshingly cold, the ‘Super Green’ is not a juice I could sip on regularly. I tasted all things green but this left a bitterness on my palate and after three mouthfuls, I put it down. Determined to be healthy, I’d drink a few mouthfuls whenever I could. This lasted in my fridge for 2 days but I’m happy to say I drank it all (kind of reminds me of when I was a kid and I had to force down cough syrup when sick). Not the best tasting of all the juices available but I know my body is thanking me for it.
I’m willing to go back and try out some of the other juices. It’s also easy to stop in at the original Autolyse cafe for a meal or buy some awesome bread and delectable sweet treats to take away.
There must be a juice craze at the moment as Local Press Cafe at the Kingston Foreshore opened up recently selling its own brand of pressed juices which I really like – its kale, spinach, mint, celery, coconut and apple juice tastes wonderful. ‘The Fix‘ cold pressed juices, launched in February this year, are also sold in certain venues around Canberra.
So what is pressed juice? Here’s a quote from Jovan Pejic, owner of Canberra cold press juice company The Fix, via a City News article.
Cold-pressed juicers are very different to other juicers โ most juicers have a system with a spinning motion, so it means itโs much quicker to disintegrate the integrity of the juice and, on top of that, the spinning motion creates heat so youโre killing the enzymes as you do it. The beauty about this juice, is itโs a slow press, so the integrity of the juice is retained and the important nutrients are locked in.
So get your juice fix on!
Foodgasm 6.5/10