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| - I truly wanted to love this place. I would love to see more veg-friendly and all-veg restaurants in this town. I make sure to thank the ones that I visit for thinking of us when planning out their menu. But my experience at Pura Vida was not pleasant and I've had better vegetarian food elsewhere.
There were a good bit of customers at the restaurant when we arrived for a late Sunday brunch, but the place wasn't packed. We were seated quickly and I started off with an apple agua fresca to drink. It tasted like water with a splash of apple juice thrown in. It was barely tolerable to drink. Although a roadblock, I didn't let it get me down and still kept my hopes up for a good meal.
While looking at the menu, I noticed what another reviewer below had said: there is a lot of soy and starch. I was honestly expecting a lot more veggies on the menu. Well, whatever, it was brunch and I usually get starchy things anyway. So I ordered the The Latin'Tude burrito combo meal while my husband ordered the The Dark Choco Waffle.
The wait for our food was pretty long, especially considering the place wasn't at capacity. While waiting, we ended up noticing that the restaurant didn't look terribly clean. The table seemed pretty dirty as well as the wall we were sitting next to. Not a good thing to be looking at while you are waiting around for your food.
First they brought out my chips and salsa. The chips were the absolute bottom of the bag teeny-tiny broken up bits of chips that are impossible for dipping in anything. Being a small place, I felt bad asking for new chips and used what I had as best as I could. The salsa that came with the chips was a "warm salsa" and tasted exactly like black bean chili to me. It wasn't bad, but not at all what I was expecting.
For my next course I had a salad with a citrus dressing. It was leaps and bounds better than everything else I had up until that point. The veggies were fresh and the dressing had a nice light taste. There were edible flowers and even some corn shoots in the salad that made it pretty to look at.
My burrito was good. It was presented nicely and even though there were a lot of ingredients, everything blended nicely. With all the soy and potatoes, it filled me up quickly. I do think it could have used some more vegetables and the fake cheese wasn't really necessary at all.
My husband's chocolate waffle was good- if you like eating dessert at any hour of the day. I was thinking it would be a waffle (crispy on the outside with a warm doughy inside) with some cocoa in the batter. It, however, was a chocolate cake in the shape of a waffle. Literally imagine a chocolate cake the size of a large dinner plate and you will have the consistency of this waffle. It was super rich and had waaaaaaay too much cocoa. To top it off, it was covered in chocolate chips and chocolate sauce (want some chocolate with your chocolate?). He was pretty disappointed with his meal. I took a few bites and it hurt my stomach. This is a dessert, not a breakfast item.
After immediately leaving, I considered giving this place 3 stars since my salad and burrito were good and we had a friendly server. But about 10 minutes after that initial thought, I started to get a really nasty stomachache with cramps. It was around 1 or 2 in the afternoon when we got to the restaurant and it was the only thing I had eaten so far that day. I can't imagine I could get food poisoning from a vegan restaurant, but whatever happened left me ill the rest of the day.
Needless to say, I'll be finding vegetarian food elsewhere.
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