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| - My friend and I shared a FANTASTIC meal at VegeNation! In Los Angeles, we are spoiled with the best vegan restaurants, and we were totally wowed by our meal here! The "Real Food Daily" of Las Vegas. Please expand to LA! I would come here all the time. Big portions, wide variety, delicious food- and prices are reasonable (unlike RFD).
I stumbled across VegeNation on Yelp, and loved how their website described them as passionate about preserving the environment, and creating delicious food for health. Their chef, who worked in well-known NY restaurants, began experiencing health problems, went vegan, and decided to create a vegan restaurant with all his healthy creations. (Interestingly enough, this is the same story of another vegan chef, Eric Lachesseur, the classically-trained French chef who opened Seed Kitchen in Venice). Their menu and website looked really interesting and FUN, with funny named dishes, with some of the most popular items of different cuisines- tacos, bao, quesadilla, tagine, sushi, etc. I told my friend about this place, and she said she already knew about it and had been wanting to come here- perfect!
The day we came, there was a chicken and waffle special! It looked amazing and decadent, but we decided to pass on it. The décor is casual and made pretty with plants, including a plant wall. I ordered some coffee, even the coffee is local- the restaurant uses local ingredients as often as possible. We started with the Bao Wow and the Save The Tuna sushi, the bao might be my favorite thing here! I haven't had bao since going vegan, or vegetarian even, over 5 years ago. What a treat!
For our meal, we ordered the Muchas Gracias sweet potato quesadilla, and the Ellen DeGeneres collard wraps. The wraps were delish, but the quesadilla was the real star.
For dessert, we had the chocolate tacos, which were inventive, but my least favorite thing here. It was all about the presentation, with a pastry outside in a taco shape holding chocolate pudding, with berries. I didn't think the pastry was that great, and the salted caramel was too salty for me. I think there was a brownie sundae on the menu that I would try next time instead.
VegeNation is such a gem, and I will make this a must-stop on all my future Vegas trips. VegeNation would really do very well in LA, I think. It's rare when you find the combination of delicious, healthy, local food in a wide variety, with fun décor, beautiful presentation, nice people, fun environment and specials (DJ's and live music sometimes!), reasonable prices, that takes measures to protect the environment. What's not to like?! Only the distance from where I live ;)
Bonus: there are some great outlets 5 minutes away in a cab- vegan food + shopping is a fun, mellow Vegas day in my book!
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