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• Great Vegan Selections at this bar

Don't expect fancy...Tap House is a bar; kind of a scuzzy bar. But it has an unusually broad selection of vegetarian & vegan food for a Norfolk restaurant & a patio that's pleasant around happy hour on pretty days. We hadn't been for about a year because last time we went, the vegan chili was too spicy to eat. But yesterday was beautiful, so we tried a revisit. I had the tofu-faux chicken (Gardien, I was told) stir fry & found it passable but not worthy of ordering again. The veggie selection was great & the dish had plenty of the chix, although I found no tofu. The problem was too much oil & little flavor. The "Asian" sauce seemed like nothing more than olive oil. The entire dish was swimming in the sauce. In fact, there was a large amount (severance tablespoons) of what appeared to be oil left in the dish at the end. On a better note, my husband's lettuce wraps were FABULOUS! He had several large romaine leaves served w/ nicely seasoned & grilled faux chicken, slaw, some chopped side veggies to put in the wraps, & a small cup of what seemed like prefab Asian sweet chili sauce. He also ordered a cup of vegan chili, which was hearty. Service was slow last night, but they were having some kind of problem. We haven't had problems in the past. Overall, in a community without a lot of great vegan restaurants, Taphouse will remain on our list for when the weather is great. Updated from previous review on 2014-08-09