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• I really wanted to like this more

So, in the interests of fairness, I went for breakfast, and this review is only for breakfast. I really, truly did want to like this place more (I always want to like 100% vegan places.) I almost feel like I went to some other restaurant than the other reviewers. It's a convenient walk from my hotel, and the work I'm in town for, yet pleasantly away from the horrorshow that is the Fremont Street Experience. Look, bottom line is that when I pay $10.95 for a breakfast burrito, it better blow me away. Or at least be excellent. Or at least very good. This was just... good. The menu lists the Burrito as containing "Black beans, Veggies & Chirzo tofu". It was chock full of potatoes, had a little substance with minimal taste that might have been the "chirzo tofu" (whatever that is), a decent amount of black beans, and about three pieces of vegetable. It tasted... fine. Okay. For $5.95? Sure. $6.95? Maybe. $10.95? Absolutely not. The small sides of pico de gallo and guacamole are a nice touch, but too small, and too little, too late. The guac was very cold, and not that gorgeous green like fresh made guac is, but vaguely tending toward brown: it clearly came out of a fridge from a prior day. The small bowl of fresh fruit was the stuff you see on every hotel buffet line: watermelon, cantaloupe, and honeydew. Fine, but boring. I didn't opt for a $3 cup of coffee, as I'd had coffee at my hotel. The service was quite friendly, which wasn't hard given that I was the only non-staffperson in the restaurant until the bread delivery guy showed up. Look, it's a cute place, and I'm glad there are vegan options in downtown Las Vegas, since most of the (reasonably affordable) vegan options in LV are a hike east or west from downtown/the Strip. LV has become increasingly accommodating to vegans in the five years I've been coming here regularly for work, as long as you avoid the casinos. Or are rich, and can at eat at the Wynn. So I dunno: if I exhaust all of the other options, I might give VegeNation another shot for dinner. But I certainly won't be going back for breakfast. I wish I could give it 2.5*. But I just can't give it 3. It does need improvement.