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| - I LOVE OPEN SESAME. I go here every time I come to Calgary, mainly because it is the only place I know of in Calgary where I can eat a safely vegan meal and my parents and friends can eat whatever they choose to eat without having to "suffer" a meatless meal.
First-off, this place just feels cool. The decor and lighting are great, as is the layout. Nice bathrooms. Feels like you're somewhere other than a crappy flat dusty ugly prairie city when you're in Open Sesame.
Second, they have a vegetarian grill! Yes! If you order a meatless meal, it won't have beef residue! This makes me so much more excited to eat at Open Sesame. I'm not a freak about my food touching meat, because I know it's going to happen, but I do prefer when it doesn't. You know, just because the thought of singed dead animal flesh is pretty gross to someone who hasn't eaten it in a decade. No offense to those of you who are comfortable with singed dead animal flesh.
You can order off the menu or construct your own stir-fry bowl. There's a choice of carb - a few types of noodles and three different rices - as well as a plethora of sauces. An allergy card is included at the bowl filling station that lists the ingredients in each sauce, so vegetarians are again (hurray!) taken care of without inconveniencing the meat eating majority.
Having eaten at plenty of grill places where I fill a bowl with veg and it's cooked up custom for me, I have to say that Open Sesame seems to have nailed it. The food is always well-cooked, never still-raw, and adding meat to a dish is something that is paid for based on the meat choice. There is very little that will make me more ornery than having to pay the same price for a veg dish as someone having that same dish with meat in it. The meat is the expensive part, after all.
Apparently I'm feeling long-winded today. Anyway, you should probably visit Open Sesame. The drinks menu is decent too, service is fantastic, and my dad will eat there without complaining.
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