John M.
Yelp
This is the worst and rudest vegetarian restaurant I have ever been to (and I have been to over a hundred in my life), not because of the extremely limited menu with very overpriced food, but because of their arrogance and schicki micki rudeness! Stay far away from this pernicious, pretentious, overpriced excuse for a restaurant! The owner is a rude, neurotic, arrogant, rich elitist woman who was so mean to me that I walked out after having been scolded for 'always making troubles', when I had only eaten there just twice before and had only asked during those 3 visits if: 1) I could sit at the bar to eat dinner in one of the 3 empty chairs at the bar, since all the tables were taken, 2) they could replace the falafel in a Buddha Bowl with tofu and 3) if the owner could ask a careless smoker who was smoking in my face outside in the outdoor sitting area while I was eating not to smoke next to me or all the other nonsmokers there who care about their lungs not being polluted, but to go somewhere away from the restaurant outdoor dining area to smoke and then to come back when they are done. She said that they have the right to smoke there. I said that it is her restaurant, and that since this is a vegetarian restaurant for people who care about their health, that she has the power to ask people not to smoke in the outdoor sitting area if others like me are there who don't wish to get lung cancer disgusting smoke in their lungs when they come to eat healthy food! She only looked at me like I was a nuisance.
I will never go back there! The last time I was there, she tried to convince me when all the tables were taken, that I could only sit at one of the 3 empty seats at the bar if the one man who was sitting there alone at the bar next to the 3 empty chairs at the bar approved it. First of all, the man at the bar sitting alone with 3 empty chairs next to him was a friendly hippie vegetarian guy (I am also an older friendly hippie guy of age 59) who obviously likes company and wouldn't dream of objecting to anyone sitting near to him in one of the 3 remaining empty chairs at the bar! I have worked in many hippie vegetarian restaurants in my life and the bar is always for the overflow people when the tables are full or for single people who might prefer to sit next to other people at the bar rather than eating alone. I have never heard of any bar which requires the permission of the people or person sitting at the bar to allow any new person or people walking in to sit near them at the bar. I couldn't believe my ears when I was told by the owner that I needed the permission from the cool hippie guy sitting all alone at the bar surrounded by 3 empty chairs before I could sit also at the bar to eat dinner. He obviously said it was fine with him. But when I tried to explain how rude it was not to simply let me sit at the bar without the permission of the man sitting at the bar, the owner barely let me explain how rude and arrogant and ridiculous this policy is before she told me that I was always causing problems. Again I couldn't believe she could treat a paying customer like this. The only things that I had done in my previous two visits was to ask if I could have tofu instead of falafel in one of the menu items like the wrap or the Buddha bowl. She claimed the last time that they couldn't give me tofu, because they didn't have enough, which was an obvious lie. What kind of vegetarian restaurant doesn't have enough tofu in stock? I also asked once when another customer was smoking outside at one of the tables if the owner could ask them not to smoke. Nobody else was smoking, and for health conscious vegetarians, this is a No go to eat next to ignorant smokers blowing smoke in your face. So she refused to ask them not to smoke. So she runs a smoker friendly restaurant and acts like it is a private club for rich people. Hippie vegetarians will not feel at home here! Stay away from here and go to Spicy Spices or Gustav or Everest restaurant instead where they are friendlier to not rich hippie vegetarian types like me.
