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| - What I love most about Toronto (topping a long list of things) is taking a new route to a familiar place, looking up and thinking, "Hey, what's this place?" Then discovering the most badass lunch bowl I've had in ages; the giant cornucopia of good things that I've always wished were available. Taking a recommendation from the amazing cashier, I got the Powerhouse Bowl (arugula, carrots, chic peas, tempeh bacon, sweet potato, avocado and sunflower sprouts.) For the carb I chose brown rice, which is good, but next time will opt for soba noodle and bring my guy so we can share, because for $15 this is way too huge to finish on my own. I also got a Tonica Peach kombucha which is stunning, like fresh peaches got it on with a shandy. Much too delicious to be as healthy as it is. Plus I see from the table cards that Thrive offers a bunch of vegan desserts, like chocolate raspberry mousse, mango cashew cake and macadamia nut tiramisu. Totally going to get a Black Forest Cake for tonight's dinner party with dairy-allergic friends. UH OH! Time for an update about why they lost my stars... My love affair with this place stalled out tonight when I got take away food for the first time. I tried to check the order before I left but was adamantly told it was 'all there'. When I got home all three things were messed up: the bowl seemed a lot smaller than what you get in-house and there was no sauce (dry noodles = no fun), the dessert was missing (apparently they didn't put it in the bag), and they gave me the wrong soup. They weren't great about offering to fix these problems either. Bummer.
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