I had lunch at Fat Rabbit recently and overall it was great…read more
Fat Rabbit is one of the vendors at the food court in The Rideau Centre, but they have their own seating area. It's a build your own bowl sort of place. You pick your base, 2 sides, and a protein. The price depends on your protein choice.
Many of the options have an Indian element to them. I got the Chicken 65 as my protein ($12) and Coconut Ginger Rice as my base. For my sides I got the Greek Salad and the Vegan Kale Salad. You also get to add a "crunchy" option at the end, and I chose walnuts.
The Chicken 65 was tasty and full of flavour, but not spicy at all. The Coconut Ginger Rice was good, I could really taste the coconut milk and ginger. It's a mix of different types of long grain rice, and it was soft and fluffy. Both the Greek Salad and the Vegan Kale Salad were made of fresh ingredients (no wilted greens), but they tasted rather unremarkable to me. The Greek salad was mostly romaine lettuce and cucumbers. I got 1 olive and some feta crumbs. Perhaps the other sides would have been more interesting.
If you get your food to go, it's in a plastic takeout container that's sectioned into 3 areas (a larger one for your base and protein, and 2 smaller ones, one for each side). If you get your food to eat there, it's in a bowl and everything is put together in the bowl.
I'm not sure if their choices change or are constant, but the day I went there were only 3 bases to choose from: the Coconut Ginger Rice that I got, Garlic Rice Noodles (which to me looked really dry and sad), and mixed greens. Their sides were more numerous and included potatoes, quinoa salad, chickpea salad, rice salad, several leafy greens salad (two of which I chose), hummus and raita. Their protein choices were Chicken 65, tandoori chicken, butter chicken, steak fajitas, fish, and the vegetarian options were a tofu curry or a cauliflower stir fry. You can add on extras like half an avocado for $1.95.
There's a lot of variety, which I like. Staff were nice enough. The place is cashless, so it debit or credit only.
I think Fat Rabbit is a great addition to the Rideau Centre food court.