Todd B.
Yelp
Wanted so much to like Rosetta's. While not a vegan myself, my lady is and this was a vegan restaurant that looked promising. A number of items had descriptions that seemed like they would have a lot of flavor. Unfortunately, while they clearly swung for the fences, they also clearly struck out.
First, location was hard to get to. GPS directed me to turn onto a highway entrance ramp but then an immediate turn off of the ramp to a row of local restaurants, bars, etc under the highway overpass and entrance. Thankfully, Melissa was able to follow the map but if you're not familiar with the streets, this could be hard to find. Not taking stars away for that-just giving a bit of forewarning.
My issues were with the food and service. Let me start with the service. The entire restaurant, though not big, had one server and the bartender. The server was clearly having a bad night-maybe because she had the whole floor, or maybe something happened that put her in a sour mood. Point is, she couldn't have looked and acted more unhappy to be there. I know what it's like to have a bad night serving and you hate to get a bad review for an off night, but you have to know (especially in this day and age) anyone you serve could be a blogger, yelper or whatever. It sucks, but it is what it is and if you can't fake it, then it's going to come back on you. So service was unfriendly. At most though, this is minus 1/2 to 1 star since our waters were refilled and she was efficient.
My biggest issue was the food. I got the Korean bbq entree. Tempeh and veggies (maybe rice? I don't remember) in a Korean bbq sauce with a tahini base. Typically I don't like tahini but it's a bbq sauce and Korean style so it was worth the risk.
Or, it should have been worth the risk. How they can call this bbq sauce or Korean is beyond me as it didn't taste like either. It tasted like someone attempted to make a Carolina bbq sauce, but used tahini instead of mustard and then stopped caring. All I tasted was tahini. It just failed on every level.
We had good to excellent vegan meals in Asheville. This was not one of them.