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| - Worst vegetarian food for the price in TO.
Cute place, and a great concept, but the food itself is a caricature of good vegetarian food -- the bowls are more or less what vegetarians eat at home when they have leftovers or don't want to cook.
A stupid simple meal -- a bowl of brown rice with some veggies and/or curry on top -- costs as gob-stopping $16. IF the few bits of veggies, worth maybe a couple of dollars at most, and less than $1 worth of brown rice (which retails at At $4-5 for a 5 lb. bag uncooked, requiring no effort to make in a rice cooker) actually tasted interesting, this might be OK. But this is some of the laziest vegetarian cooking ever. No interesting veggies, no interesting spices -- just meh.
In seeking out better value for the price, I have tended to gravitate towards the veggie burgers, which are OK. But what leads to the downfall of the burgers is the quality of the fries, which should be a logical side: the fries at "Fresh" are cooked in the dirtiest rancid cooking oil imaginable --I've gotten sick literally every time I've eaten them, and have finally given up on them.
On a recent trip my partner had the corn bread, and it was 100% stale -- he described it as tasting like it had been sitting on someone's dashboard for weeks -- which is ridiculous, since corn bread is simple to make and easy to keep moist.
For $16+ per person, we'll be trundling further down Bloor West to any number of places where the vegetarian food is tastier and cheaper -- Ghazale has great veggie options, as do Mariko, Thai Basil, and many others.
While the concept may be Fresh, the food isn't. And the servers are snarly, too.
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