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  • I love the idea of this place! Sadly, The actual experience was kind of mixed. If you are a omnivore and are looking for a gateway to vegetarian cuisine, this place might do it for you. To me, The food was neither serious barbecue, nor great vegan cooking. Rather, it occupies the strange middle ground of *products that pretend to be meat.* In many cultures, meat is typically one ingredient in a dish comprised of many other things - e.g. rice, beans, flavorful sauces, etc. In vegan versions of these foods, there is a *context* in which the fake meat can be happily camouflaged. Mexican food is good for that! All across town, Asian & Indian cuisines offer many meatless options that are roaring with flavor -with no need for meat substitutes at all. But "Soul Food" is different. Large servings of meat that stand on their own are the main course. This is a much more challenging thing to duplicate in vegan form. And therein lies the problem. Amber's has gone for great visuals over authentic flavor. Here you have pretend chicken that actually looks a lot like chicken, but doesn't taste anything at all like chicken. It's a big hunk of fried veggie-protein, with a kind of odd texture. The ribs also look like ribs, but don't taste like ribs at all - and really don't *feel* like barbecued anything. There is no char - no crispness - just a sweet, syrupy sauce. Which brings me to my only real complaint. No smoke. For a place with "smoke" in their name, there was a decided lack of smoke flavor in anything that I tasted (including the "Smokey" Barbecue Sauce). I doubt that anything here was actually wood-smoked, and that's a disappointment. So, A+ for effort, but maybe this is just the wrong type of food to vegan-Ize. I honestly think that I would have enjoyed the food more if each item hadn't been visually presented as something that it was not - raising - and then dashing - expectations. Even though I didn't love the food, I'm giving three stars for filling an interesting niche in the local food scene. If you need your vegetables to look like meat, you'll be happy here. For me, it's mostly a creative culinary curiosity, but Im not likely to be a regular.
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