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How is this place even open?!? There are quite a few things that were very concerning/confusing about this place. Is it a restaurant? Any place that serves food should have tables for there patrons, right? Inside was one table in what seemed to be the front room of this house that was absolutely filthy, so we thought lets eat outside! Ummm bad idea. Outside was an open yard full of wood chips. There were broken tables all over and not one chair in sight. My mother in law later mentioned jokingly that it looked like a crack dealers backyard and we should have watched our steps for needles! We should have taken this as our que to run, however, we had already put in our order for the brunch (that was the only option on a Saturday afternoon) so back inside we went. After about 30 minutes we finally got two of our three orders. Our food was brought out to us by a young girl who looked like she had just rolled out of bed (still wearing slippers), as she shuffle stepped into the room with two plates, she said the third would be out shortly. As she shuffled away I asked for silverware, she threw her arms up in the air and said she was working on it. The food was freaking COLD!! About 10 minutes later my husband finally got his food which was also cold. Brunch consisted of about a 1/4 cup of tofu scramble, potatoes, some type of stale biscuit like thing, with white flour "gravy", and two terribly burnt pancakes. All of these items fit onto a normal size plate just to give you an idea of how small the portions were. Grand total after all of this $36!!! Never again!

I have gone to this location at different times over the years and I liked it best when it was a member owned collective with people that seemed to really have a vested interest and care for not only the food but also the community in which the cafe/gallery was located.

I did not boycott the place with the other patrons faithful to the old place when the ownership/management changed, but the few times I have bothered to go in have not been great. Most of the time the food was super bland and flavorless or tasted bad and the place smelled like hot garbage.

There were people living in the back room and later what used to be the gallery. I really think they were exploiting homeless people by having them work there for food. I have heard since then that none of the employees were vegan.

The ONE time it was OK was when they had a vegan Rasta cooking there. It was a good thing too because an out of towner from NYC was hungry and it was around 11:30pm and at the time they were open 24hrs so I could suggest the place to him. We walked in and it actually smelled DELICIOUS in the small cramped one table having lobby/gallery area.

Once I heard the Rasta was no longer working there, I have not been back since (about 5 months at the time of this posting).

It pains me to write this kind of review about a vegan establishment, but I feel like I need to be honest about my experience here.

My partner and I were excited to try this cute-seeming vegan cafe. We were given menus, and ordered two things, both of which, it turned out, were not available. That's ok, that happens, no problem, so we ordered two more items. Also not available. At this point we asked, "What IS available?"

The man behind the counter said they had lentil soup and nachos. Why didn't they just tell us that when we came in instead of giving us menus? My partner asked to see the soup, and the man lifted the lid of a pot and showed us a the crusty last two spoonfuls of a soup that did not look appetizing at all.

We should have probably left at this point, but instead we ordered the nachos. We waited nearly an hour for them. When they came out, they were edible, but nothing to write home about. The cashew "cheese" sauce was the only saving grace, but they had no vegetables, and were served over Tostitos "Scoops" chips. Really?

We were upset but decided to just eat and leave; however, when we went up to pay, a woman cheerfully came out of the back to run our card and said, "How was your meal today?" My partner and I looked at each other and then I said, "Honestly, it was pretty bad. We waited an hour for just sauce over cheap store-bought chips." She replied, "Oh, sorry about that, we were out of chips so [the guy's name] had to run to the store and buy some."

WHAT?! They should have just told us they were out of everything and closed the cafe for the day. Instead we were left feeling cheated by people we went in wanting to support. We felt like our time, money, and patronage was disrespected.

Hopefully our experience was a one time occurrence, based on these other reviews, but we will certainly NEVER be going back there.

I was very excited to try out this new (to me) vegan restaurant. At first glance you can tell that the experience there was going to be something unique. Which mine definitely was but not in a good way.

I got there a little before 5pm so I waited in my car for the house to open. When I did finally head up to the house, the front door was locked. I wasn't sure I was using the right entrance. Soon after an employee/someone recognized by the employees knocked on the door and they unlocked it. Inside, I was informed that I was a little early (4:55). I realized I was so I sat down in the front of the house to wait til serving hours. At 5pm I wasn't sure if they were ready so I continued to sit there until they decided to seat me. The whole thing felt really awkward.

While I was waiting I noticed one of the girls preparing the food wasn't wearing gloves.

When they were ready to serve they brought me a menu and I asked them where I was suppose to sit. They told me in the front room. The same room I had been waiting....which consisted of 6 small tables side by side pushed up against the wall and chairs lined up across. People from the gallery were taking chairs from the tables as I waited for food.

It just seemed like being a restaurant was a side thought.

The food tasted off to me.

I felt like I was an inconvenience the entire time. Only saving grace was an employee who was working on a sign nearby. She was very welcoming and made me feel less out of place.

Maybe I came in on a really off day or getting in the house early erked the employees but I do not plan on going again.