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| - This is my first Fresh experience and yay...I'm a fan.
I had a small soup (chickpea), salad (wasabi dressing), cornbread and hummus. The dish was tastier than expected, having experience dull blandness at other vegetarian restaurants. The sauces, dressing, and dips here are fantastic -- they make all these wholesome foods "pop."
Make sure to ask for the hot sauce -- nice heat with a good mix, layered flavours. I put this sauce on almost everything I ate.
Other dishes we ordered: Quinoa batter coated onion rings with the avocado sauce (I like deep fried so this was a winner), and the baby Buddha bowl (tried a couple bites of tomato, bean sprouts, and tofu and it was also good, peanut saucy denseness).
First thing I noticed when I walked into Fresh was the juices and hot beverages the patrons were sipping, so I was pleasantly surprised that Fresh also had a nice wine, beer, and cider list which was a refreshingly concise menu compared to the food/drink/dessert regular menu set out on the tables -- took a good five minutes for me to get the gist of what was gonna be dinner from this menu.
I found the seating at Fresh too crammed for comfort -- perhaps on purpose to lend to the friendliness of the place (probably out of necessity given size of the place)? Anyway, had to make several Tetris-y moves involving the dishes we ordered + little sauce containers + side plates + cutlery + bottle and cups for water + bottle and glass for the cider + of course, the hot sauce (and the other condiments), all on a little square table that was only a couple of inches apart from the two we were sandwiched between. Happy to report we made it through dinner with polished plates and only one spoon overboard.
Fun and wholesomely filling experience.
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