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| - TL;DR - Eat here, you'll like it. Be sure to have a cocktail.
I ate here because my wife is currently eating Vegan (we had too much Franklin BBQ in Austin last month and needed to drop the weight) and I wanted to take her someplace where they had Vegan food (not just salads). It's around the corner (south and west) from the Downtown Container park (which I regularly take visitors to because its cool and I like to scare them when the Giant Praying Mantis flamethrower antennas shoot 30' flames) - but I had never driven on that street, so I didn't know it existed until I found it on yelp.
Food was very good. I had the Italian "meatball" sandwich - I couldn't tell it apart from a real meatball sub if you asked me to. I don't remember what my wife ordered, but I tasted it and it was good too. Its a real restaurant with tables and waiters, not a order at the counter place like Veggie Grill.
This is the only vegan place other than the Veggie Grill chain (mostly in California, none in Las Vegas) that I can recommend.
I've eaten at a number of "Vegan" restaurants before and about half are terrible because Vegan is usually a political statement about not eating animals. This means that the food is very limited (or terrible - like raw food places) or uses substitutes that don't taste as good as the real items (eggs, milk, cheese, butter, meat). Also, the staff at vegan places tend to be vegan too which usually means a lot of weird servers.
This place was good. Our waiter was normal, they did have another guy with a purple mohawk (very punk) haircut and the waitresses had multiple earrings, nose rings, etc. They all seemed pretty nice and professional and no one seemed to be pushing an agenda.
This place has a limited menu, but the food is very good. only thing we said "meh" to was one of the desserts - the cheesecake (which obviously doesn't have real cheese in it) was kind of gritty and not creamy. I would pass on it. I had the 3 choco tacos and they were good.
I had a Pina Colada cocktail drink and it was the best I've ever had in my life. It probably because they have a juice bar so they fresh press and squeeze their juices here (verses getting it from a can of Dole juice anyplace else) - so it was really, really delicious. prices were very reasonable. i will eat and drink here again.
Its pay street parking, but they have a lot across the street that is apparently free with validation. best bet is to pull up in front in one of the empty street parking spots and go inside and ask where to move to. Meter maids do patrol the area because of the popular Downtown Container Park right around the corner, so if you street park make sure you pay. its only like $2-4, but the machines takes like 5 minutes per person to run a credit card. It might be faster with coins but I haven't carried any of those in my pocket since the '90s.
TL;DR - Eat here, you'll like it. Be sure to have a cocktail.
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