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That pretty much describes my meal experience at Rawlicious. It was my first go at a raw, vegan restaurant and it was pleasant enough, but let's just say I won't be going there for my birthday. **BUT, keep in mind, this is a review coming from a part-time vegetarian! I am no expert in vegan dining by any means.**
An immediate obvious downfall at lunch time was its small dine-in layout. but I guess that's what you get when you pay rent in upscale Yorkville.
I ordered the Zucchetti wwith "Neat" balls. I must admit that reading the menu was really confusing to me because when I read "lasagna", I imagine the cheesey, hot casserole. Perhaps this added to the mediocre satisfaction of my meal. In the raw, vegan world, PASTA = ZUCCHINI STRINGS. I guess it was cool that it was my favourite colour, but my good friend Mr. Flavour was absent in this meal. Good thing I added their neatmalls too, otherwise I'd have just been eating a huge bowl of green strings. I don't even think rabbits eat raw zucchini like that. The Neat balls were really tasty, made of a collection of nuts. This is something I'd want to make at home but would take too much effort. They could've given me one more neat ball to pair with the mountain of zucchini I had left...
The pasta portion was good but personally, I had gotten full about 3/4 of the way through and had to waste the remaining raw, organic zucchini (emipod fact: I never like wasting food!!). But due to the nature of eating a bowl of raw vegetable, you become hungry pretty soon after - and being hungry sucks for me.
I guess I'll go back eventually someday... maybe in a caterpillar costume.
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