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My experience at Postino Arcadia and Central have been great, mostly because I take advantage of their wine/bruschetta combo.
Postino Annex is a different story. I went there for lunch (which was a 1st for me) so I ordered the Italian Picnic salad. The waitress was very nice and helpful.
The description says:
Fresh greens tossed with roasted beets, goat cheese, bacon and walnuts topped with crisped root vegetables in herb vinaigrette.
Sounds great right? I'm vegan so I asked for no cheese and no bacon, and instead I asked to add quinoa and extra root vegetables (and I asked the waitress to charge me extra if needed).
What came to my table was:
Fresh greens - Yes
Roasted beets - No. Not roasted, just very soft cooked COLD golden beets. Not seasoned, not anything. My guess is they were from a can.
Walnuts - Yes
Crisped root vegetables - No. I asked for extra of these and there were NONE. What they put instead was this tortilla-like strips of root-vegetable colors that tasted like, well, tortilla strips. There wasn't any root vegetables to be seen.
Herb vinaigrette - Barely any dressing on, was on the dry side.
The quinoa I requested to be added was I kid you not, less than a tablespoon mixed throughout the salad.
For $9.50 at Pita Jungle I could've gotten a giant, fresh, real crisped root vegetables salad that satisfied me and had actual substance. This joke of a salad came to my table and when my waitress asked after 2 seconds if it looked good I said yes (it did looked good).
As I searched for the vegetables and the quinoa I realized they had given me whatever that was, and my waitress NEVER came back to check on me again when I wanted to ask a few questions about my salad.
A good half hour and I would see her maybe walking by fast, not looking our way.
Not her fault (she was super sweet, very nice, I liked her a lot) but I was not happy with my salad at all, and the cold soft beets and tortilla strips were super disappointing.
So no, I will not be coming back. No good vegetarian/vegan options and any substitutions you may ask for may or may not work out.
-Julie
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