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| - Lola Rosa is one of those restaurants that every McGill student knows about for better or for worse. On one hand, it serves up high-quality vegetarian eats at reasonable prices; however, it's also quite possibly the only good restaurant in the Ghetto (hence one of the reasons why I chose to live deeper in the Plateau). Therefore, long wait times and crowded, loud conversation-making are bound to happen, unless you make a reservation like I did (life hacks everyone).
I came here with a friend for a food date and we were promptly seated and utterly famished since we hadn't eaten at all that day. We ordered two chai lattes (an épicé for me and a regular one for her), a half order of nachos to share, and a mac and cheese for her and a lasagna for me. The chai was perfectly gingery for my taste (although my friend thought it was way too much), and I must have forgotten about how big even the half portion of nachos is but we attacked it anyway. The textures of the salsa, beans, avocado, tomato, and cheese melded together in a colorful flavor explosion, although the soggy chips at the bottom weren't exactly a plus. Afterwards, we received our main dishes. I thought the lasagna was divine and thought that the spinach pasta made an ordinary dish more unique, and the fact that they included mushrooms in the cheese and tomato sauce filling made it even better. Basically, it contained almost all of my favorites in one dish, something that I loved. The side salad was also surprisingly really good even with the dressing and croutons, and normally I hate salad dressing and think croutons are unnecessary. I tried my friend's mac and cheese, and to be honest, I thought it could have been creamier, although it was still satisfying.
Afterwards, even though we were completely stuffed, we decided to say f*ck it and order dessert anyway. I got the matcha cake with a chia whipped topping and raspberry coulis, and my friend got the pineapple and raspberry cheesecake. The matcha cake actually had the green tea flavor coming through, and I thought the chia topping and raspberry coulis were amazing (you could definitely tell they used real raspberries). I wish that the cake itself was more moist and spongy, however, since it came off as a bit dry to me. I tried the cheesecake as well; in my opinion, they used way too much cream cheese and didn't use enough pineapple flavoring as I could barely taste it. It had a very cute and neat presentation in a little jar, but for $6.50 I still thought that it was kind of expensive.
I will definitely come back to Lola Rosa for their main dishes and perhaps sample some more of their desserts, as their food is very satisfying and will leave you stuffed to the brim. What I've found is that even those with carnivorous tendencies give it their seal of approval, so it's sure to be a crowd-pleaser no matter who you're catering to.
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