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• Overpriced, overhyped regrettable

This past weekend I had the unfortunate experience of eating at this restaurant. The only thing worse than my experience was the food. We ordered two dishes, at our servers recommendation, the “Yo Mama’s Lasagna” and the Blackened Tempeh. The Lasagna was alright. If I went to a friend’s house in college, and they prepared that as a vegan dinner(and they were a meat eater trying their best) I would have been pleased. At a Vegan restaurant, as one of their recommended main dishes, I was not. The vegetables in this "vegetable" lasagna were barely there. It was more a plate of store bought noodles, bland sauce from a jar, and vegan cheese. Even the garlic bread was so-so. With garlic knots are on the menu, I don't know why the included bread was so blah. Now the Tempeh. I am a tempeh lover- done right it is amazing, at Ethos it is not. The Tempeh itself looked and tasted like it came fresh out of the publix/ whole foods wrapper and on to my plate- same shape, even with a crease from the plastic! On the menu it is described as blackened- there was a bit of black/ seasoning on one of the ends-only. The salsa on top of it was good but sparse. The black beans under it were alright (not really good or bad, just OK), and the collared greens were WAY too salty. The “jasmine rice” was plane white and reminded me of minute rice. The whole dish, given how stingy they were with the beans, greens, and salsa, was a dry, tasteless, plate of rice that I ended up having to force down. It was so bad in fact that the Lasagna my fiancé had suddenly became appetizing by comparison! The entire experience was not bad at Ethos. The tap water with lemon was great! I'm not sure why this restaurant is so well liked/ reviewed. I can only guess it is because the restaurant itself has a clean, urban, chain store vibe/look and I think their preppy crowd finds it exciting to have dreadlocked and pierced servers. I think that maybe customers get a thrill from this and view it as slumming. Likewise, based on the plethora of meat substitutes, I think this place caters to the kind of people that view Vegetarian/Vegan as a phase they go through, etc.” Maybe these people do not know that Veg/ Vegan food can be amazing. If you read though that entire post I will say two things. Try Dandelion Communitea café!!!! You will love it! Also, I went to Ethos once. Maybe they were having a bad day. I disliked it so much I will never return to find out. PS-The site made me give two cows- it deserves 0