Nick Gerlich
Google
Show me a 100% vegan restaurant, and I’ll be there as often as I can, even if I live 1500 miles away. Ethos is just that good, and Winter Park is all the better off for being its home.
We appreciate the depth and breadth of the menu, the imagination that goes into creating vegan versions of American comfort foods, and the overall quality. This place is spot-on in every aspect.
As fate would have it (sorry, Google Reviews readers), my wife and I settled on the same thing, so I cannot report on two menu items. But just to be able to mix things up a little bit, we ordered an appetizer, the Crispy Green Beans. Oh my, what a delicious starter! Lightly sautéed in oil, and topped with both white and black sesame seeds, it kept us at least somewhat sated while our vegan Lasagna was being prepared and baked.
When we saw the serving size of the lasagna, we both envisioned takeaway boxes, but alas, our appetites got the better of us, and left not one bean, one shard of noodle, nor one dollop of sauce. Even a carnivore would be hard-pressed to distinguish this from their meaty version. I washed mine down with a Lord Hobo Boom Sauce, a 2X IPA on tap, while my wife went with her signature half-and-half iced tea.
All told, Ethos is everything it always has been to us: A great place for vegans (me), vegetarians (former me), and those who flex a little (wife). We’ll definitely be back again and again.