oyy a miss for me on this one!
I heard about Nourish a few weeks ago and have been meaning to try it...I happened to be in the nabe yesterday early evening and decided to go in. The place is huge but was completely empty...we were welcomed nicely.
It is vegetarian, vegan, lactose and gluten-free...the menu looked AWESOME - lots of options and great concepts... as I was looking it over, I was already drafting an enthusiastic e-mail in my mind to all my friends who happen to be vegetarian and vegan...and then I saw the note that stands on each table enumerating what nourish is all about:
"everything only sweetened with agave nectar" (omg must come here for lunch tomorrow)
"coconut milk instead of cream" (omg Chrissy's bday party must happen here!!)
"our sweet potato fries our air fried no oil! (July 4th weekend at Nourish!!)
I was having a pretty good time in my head until the food arrived...
we started with the garlic/artichoke hummus:
disappointing: it was very small and came with three pieces of sad, wilted old and dirty looking cucumbers and carrots. Surprising as a veggie place you would think that the focus would be on the vegetables being fresh, colorful and appetizing! not so!
next the "kitchen sink" salad with grilled chicken - again a huge miss! veggies were old, wilted and just sad - chicken was NOT grilled rather that white/diced chicken thing with the bad after taste yuck! (I know its not the most original choice but IT IS a veggie place after all so I thought the salad would be the star...too bad it didn't even get into the local theatre school!!!)
my husband ordered the garlic/lemon chicken on quinoa salad - more flavorful than mine... but SO small! yes that's another thing.. the portions are tiny - the entree portions look like appetizers...
Things went from bad to worse when our waitress started ignoring us towards the end... I was still hungry after my sad salad so I ordered some of them air fried sweet potato fries... ehhh... and I asked for some ketchup and it took her 1/2 hour to get it to me - she came out six times - yup SIX doing other errands before she got me my ketchup even though we were practically the only ones in the place...
by the time we paid our check... my " imaginary" e-mail to my friends went from enthusiastic to delete!
I'll "nourish" myself elsewhere thank you... dinner and "bachelorette" at my place???