Iydea (Brighton)

Hey everyone, I figured i should make use of the fact that im in the UK for a month by posting about all the meals i eat, so the next few posts will be dizzy's brisbane on the road! At anytime i use the $ sign i mean pounds but i can't find the pound key on my keyboard.
So here's the first post from the first day.
Iydea
North Laine, Brighton UK
1.5/5
So my first day in Brighton, it seems fairly great, lots of great looking bars, good food and more hipsters than you can shake a stick at. So while looking for a street press i asked a guy in a record shop where is a good place to get lunch, he recommended this place... that's enough for me to just go, screw it, it can't be that bad. It turns out thats exactly what it is, not that bad. So with the only expectation being that it would be better than burger king, i checked it out. Couple of quick realizations when i arrived, the most alarming of which was the fact that it was vegetarian cafe (yes vegetarian places are usually fronts for cults or places where the tastiest thing you can get is some mush mixed with other mush)

I don't remember exactly what my order was called, but it was some sort of spicy filling in a filo pastry with a side of beetroot puree and shredded potato, unfortunately my inability to think logically while ordering led to my order of a cider with the meal...  cider and spicy things don't mix well. However i must say that i was plesantly suprised by both the cider and the food. Service is unmentionable considering it has a deli style setup with a bain marie and a cafeteria tray, but thats not a big deal considering thats what it claims to be and the staff were incredibly helpful in my ordering. The decor is very similar to alot of vegetarian cafes throughout the world with a bright and natural feeling, the fact that the heating was turned all the way up helped alot in that sense.

The food was alright with both the puree and shredded potato being quite nice and balancing to the spicy pastry, the main problems with the dish was quite simply the inconsistancy of the pastry filling, with half of the filling being quite enjoyable if a little bland and the other half tasting like one of the my brothers stews made out of 90% pepper, but it succeeded in hiding that fact that many vegetarian foods suffer from, that vegetarian food is made up of mixture of flavours that blend out to zero instead the pastry tasted like there was a feature ingredient that was present that unfortunately i was unable to identify. i gave this place an average rating due to the fact that the pepper overpowered half of the dish, and while they managed to accentuate the flavours rather well, it still fell short of many of the meat based dishes that i have eaten in my life.

Iydea has a website at http://www.iydea.co.uk/ that while it lacks a full menu has a sample menu and some other stuff.
My meal cost $5.35 with an organic cider that cost $3.7
sorry if its a bit short but i can't think of much to write