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| - My girlfriend and I found ourselves in the area with her craving Mexican and me craving some kind of Asian. We stopped in on a Saturday afternoon at kind of an odd time and got two of the bottled drinks, a tex-mex burrito with double steak, and a Buddha bowl (rice noodles, vegetables, "spicy peanut sauce," fried wontons).
The burrito my girlfriend rated as a 5, with a perfectly customized Chipotle burrito at a 9 or 10. Towards the end of the burrito, though, she said she didn't love the taste of the meat and that she thought the vegetarian option might have been better. That's the first time in 7 years I've ever heard my favorite meatitarian even express interest in a vegetarian option at a restaurant. Also, as someone from Texas, she said the Tex-Mex aspect of the burrito was "dreadful."
My Buddha bowl was just an unforgivably bad idea. It's cooked plain rice noodles, some exceptionally unflavorful sauce (I asked for double, and ended up with just barely enough), and vegetables. Almost a third of the bowl was tasteless steamed broccoli, with some raw carrots and red cabbage mixed in with the noodles. The ingredients were not cooked together at all, so no flavor there, and were extremely tasteless. The best part of the whole bowl was the wontons. I physically could not believe how little flavor it had.
The atmosphere of the restaurant is nice enough, I guess. My girlfriend described it as "a modernist yuppie who likes to go to anti-GMO rallies," which is pretty accurate IMO. All of the tables have a pamphlet on them advertising the juice cleansing program the chain sells, which costs between $30 and $130, requires you to pick up juices from them every morning, and looks like a good way to do yourself absolutely 0 good. It lent the place a kind of predatory, commercial air.
Altogether, the best part of the meal was the bottled drinks. Would not return.
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