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• Disappointing (nearly) all around

A vegan cafe with raw offerings in a convenient location? This has all the markers of being my new favorite place...but was such a disappointment. Perhaps my expectations were high but, even if they were lowered, I doubt that the place would have met them. The location is convenient and easy to find. The place is well-marked and the restaurant rather attractive. I don't know if it's affiliated with a school of some kind or not but when we visited, there were 10-12 school age children coming in an out; most seemed to know the western male who sometimes walked behind the counter (but I'm not sure actually worked there or was just hanging out). The person taking our order seemed distracted and we needed to remind them to bring out the latter half of it. One of the "kids" actually came by the table and swiped my drink while I was washing my hands (and flushing the toilet for the person/people ahead of me), which the workers in the restaurant seemed to think was cute. They didn't think it was cute enough to offer a replacement though took it off the bill when I requested. Food...was average. My son, who likes everything, disliked the ABJ Sandwich and said it tasted wet. The hummus and chickpea sandwiches were fine. Smoothies were very good though portions a bit small compared to similar restaurants. The staff did ask if everything was ok. I said that the ABJ wasn't what we expected and they said "good.To the surprise of nobody reading this, we decided not to. Perhaps I hit them on a bad day. I was surprised to see the positive reviews listed here so I probably should consider giving them another try but, considering the vast number of vegetarian options in Taipei, probably won't.