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| - As a vegetarian, I think it's great that yard house is vegetarian-friendly with their Gardein menu. Their portions are generous, and the service is good. From their Gardein menu I have tried their Wings, Chicken Strips, Orange Peel Chicken, Gardein Burger, and Spicy Thai Chicken Salad.
My favorite gardein dish is the fried chicken strips. They are definitely not healthy and are served with french fries; but they are crispy and tasty. Good for comfort cravings at a reasonable price.
The wings are also good, I've tried the buffalo and jerk. I thought the buffalo was a little too salty, but good. The jerk wings were also pretty good as a sweet asian style wing.
The Orange Peel Chicken dish was disappointing. First, it's like $17 for brown rice and fake meat. Chinese restaurants do not charge that much for real orange chicken. Second, the orange flavor of the dish wasn't good. It just tasted like orange rind and didn't have much spice. Definitely overpriced for a basic dish that wasn't good.
The Gardein Burger was okay. The Gardein meat did not taste good and had bad texture. The texture wasn't charred or crispy. It was soft and unappealing. I've had a lot of veggie burgers and was not impressed. Yard house assembled a pretty good burger aside from the Gardein meat though.
Lastly, the Spicy Thai Chicken Salad was alright. It's a classic chicken salad with a teriyaki and celery kind of flavor. The gardein chicken was shredded and tasted okay. Maybe I just think this dish in general isn't much of a crowd-pleaser, but it wasn't anything special. I would have opted for a grilled gardein chicken Caesar salad.
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