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• Even better second time...

Both Google Maos and Maps took me to Calle Justo Sierra 1869. So, I walked back a block and a bit. If you arrive by taxi, I recommend you walk back, due to all the one-way streets - especially during the busy bar nights. The standard plastic furniture has been replaced by beautiful local pine-accented metal sets, with a nice Lucuma 'brand' burned into each table. BTW - lucuma is a fruit that greatly resembles an avocado. Always nice to have the assistance of an English-speaking waiter, although I expect I would spend more if the menu was bilingual. It's a simple marketing fact, and even more important in a country with more foreign Vegetarians than local. In China and much of SE Asia each menu item is accompanied by a picture for visual stimuli, which definitely makes you buy more. A nice albeit fru-fru menu, but relatively limited for a gluten-free Vegan. I still like to support them. Sopa de Tortilla (Tortilla Soup). P64 (US$3.45/$4.58 Cdn). A tomato soup with small chunks of avocado and shredded tortilla garnish (ask for maiz if gluten-free (myy zz). A nice soup, but unremarkable. Portobello Wellington, P146 (US$7.85/$10.45 Cdn). A superb stuffed Portobello. On one side comes an unbelievable amount of live lettuce stuffed delicately into a small signature glass bottle, and on the other a small gravy bowl of wonderful taco-type sauce with gentle Jalapeños and a Vegan protein crumble (I'm guessing). The Portobello is so wonderful on it's own, I only smothered every second bite with the sauce. My kingdom for bite-sized taco bowls from Canada! :) I treated myself to both Adacodo-Lime Pie P60 (US$3.22/$4.30 Cdn) and Chocolate Cheesecake P69 (US$3.70/$4.95 Cdn)...half of each to take home, of course. Both desserts came garnished with a strawberry quarter, laid out on beautiful black slate slabs. Desserts and slate were drizzled with liquid chocolate and then finely chopped nuts. Both were raw desserts save for a baked nut bottom 'crust'. The Chocolate Cheesecake was divine, served at room temperature. The Avocado-Lime Pie was less tastebud-exciting, mostly I believe because it was cold to almost frozen. Total bill (with two halves of desserts to-go) was P339 (US$18.22/$24.27 Cdn) - so roughly US$15.00/$20.00 Cdn with one dessert. High for average Mexico, normal for ritzy Mexico, just fine for a Vegan-craving Vegan! (To compare: my solo Thai-chain meal at PF Changs a few days ago was P550 (US$29.56/$39.38 Cdn)) Updated from previous review on 2016-10-23