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| - Finding restaurants that have a good variety of vegetarian and vegan food on offer can prove difficult in Calgary. But at Buddha's Veggie they have two separate menu's, one with your usual meat dishes and one menu entirely devoted to veggie dishes! It feels like there is almost too much to choose from (we are talking around 70 dishes!), this is a strange feeling to a vegan when it comes to dining out!
I chose three items from the veggie menu, 'Veggie Ginger Beef', 'Veggie Lemon Chicken' and my favourite, 'Veggie Beef in Black Bean Sauce on Rice Noodle'. All three dishes were delicious, and the 'meat' was succulent and tasty, it felt eerily similar to the real thing! The 'Ginger Beef' was amazing, it was slightly chewy as the texture mimicked real ginger beef very well. The batter on the 'Lemon Chicken' was light and crispy and the sauce very lemony and yummy! The 'beef' in the 'Black Bean Noodles' was my absolute favourite, it was just spectacular, the right texture, taste and colour, no words can describe how tasty it was! The vegetables in the dishes were all very fresh and cooked perfectly too.
The staff were very friendly and politely answered any questions I had with great knowledge of their menu items. The atmosphere was lovely, the restaurant itself is clean and bright and furnished in a nice modern yet warm and comforting style.
I will be back again very soon now that I have found this gem of a restaurant, next time to try a few different items from the veggie menu, I have quite a lot to get through but I am sure none of them will disappoint! Yummy!
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