"sad but true"   My Rating
GUEST	Posted on: Thursday, April 16, 2009
	Review: This is probably the only restaurant in town where vegans can have an almost decent meal. Altough the cook's never heard of spices. You'll have to season your own food. We got more decent vegan food from an oriental delicatessen, called Bambu on Calle San Jose (not far from this restaurant).   Pros: * * Cons: * *
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"Adequate but disappointing"   My Rating
1 AthleteTO	Posted on: Saturday, April 11, 2009
	Review: Good selection of food, some interesting dishes at the buffet; but how long was it out? A lot of it was cold (when supposed to be hot), and left me tepid about the overall experience. This was the case during both visits to this restaurant during my trip to Montevideo.   Pros: Variety * Buffet * Cons: Food Temperature * Restaurant Condition *
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"A Bit Bland"   My Rating
1 jollythere d	Posted on: Saturday, February 21, 2009
	Review: This joint has an all vegetarian buffet with soups, fried foods, a salad bar and dessert bar. The main bar is mostly fried food. Most interesting was the "rice burger", which was glutenous rice fried in a bar-shaped patty. For the vegetarians they have quiches and some other eggy dishes. If you're not familiar with Uruguayan food (as I'm not), it's hard to tell what's vegan. What I could tell, for vegans they have the rice burger, fried breads, boiled veggies, soups, and the salad bar (with lentils!). The lunch special is 300 pesos for 2 people, which is about US$13. Expect to add a lot of salt, as the food is quite bland.   Pros: all veg * good salad bar * rice burger? Cons: bland * relatively expensive * no vegan desserts
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"Veg oasis in a sea of beef"   My Rating
10 HannahP96	Posted on: Friday, February 08, 2008
	Review: This was the second La Vegetariana we tried, and we ended up going back almost every day. It's an excellent value for all-you-can-eat, and they accept credit cards. They had a large salad bar in addition to their hot buffet, with interesting leafy greens and most other fixings that you would want. One mistake I made was that I thought that the brown liquid in a bottle next to the oil in the salad dressing section was vinegar, but it was soy sauce. The hot food is plain and filling, but don't expect much in the way of seasoning. There was always one chafing dish full of boiled root vegetables, and usually another vegan hot vegetable dish (leeks with lentils is one memorable one). Many of the more interesting dishes contain egg, so vegans have less to choose from, but there's still plenty there for a healthy, satisfying vegan meal. One specialty they make is Milanesa (a breaded "veal" (seitan) cutlet), but this is made with egg. You can ask the chef to make you a special portion of Milanesa without egg in the breading, and they usually do it for no charge. I liked the Milanesas with their tomato sauce, or just with salt. They also had very good noquis (gnocchi) in red sauce at this location. In Uruguay it's traditional to eat noquis at the end of the month. They also had excellent fresh-squeezed orange juice, which you could order by the glass or by the jug (the little jugs served 2 people). This La Vegetariana is very centrally located and is convenient to many hotels. The only thing I didn't like about this restaurant were the bathrooms: the toilets did not have seats, and were pretty scary in other ways too.   Pros: Excellent value * Friendly staff * Good food Cons: Yucky bathrooms * *
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