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| - Toronto is blessed with having a pretty decent amount of vegan and vegetarian restaurants these days. What I like about Hello 123 is that it is neither "super healthy, everything is made from spelt and organic lentils, etc" and "we invented a crazy fake meat and covered it in this crazy fake cheese and deep fried it." Don't get me wrong, both of those options are awesome, and serve a purpose. But Hello 123 is just nice nourishing, filling, tasty food that also happens to be animal product free. Its like the stuff you would make for yourself or your friends at home, if you were a slightly better cook and had a bit more time to make something special. Plus cocktails :)
Recently I went with a friend for a late dinner and we shared a few apps as a meal. We got the elotes (Mexican street corn), the Cauliflower with vegan hollandaise and pomegranate, and the sweet potato sin carne (so with beans, and a healthy topping of lightly dressed arugula). Everything was super tasty. The vegan hollandaise was great, and I loved he little juicy pops of pom every now and again. The Sweet potato was probably my favourite. It felt like camping food in the best way - nourishing, hearty, fresh. The corn was good, but it was just one cob split in two, which felt a little small tbh.
We also both had the same cocktail because it sounded the most refreshing on that muggy night. And it was. I think it was called "Pinkish Summer" and it was gin, watermelon juice, lime, basil, black pepper and ginger beer. SO GOOD.
All in all, I'll definitely be saying "Hello" to Hello 123 again and again.
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