• Quitu

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Serves meat, vegan options available. Farm to table Ecuadorian fine dining offering a five or eight-course vegan meal with optional wine pairing if given notice ahead of time. Open Mon-Fri 12:00pm-8:30pm, 9:00pm-10:00pm. Closed Sat-Sun.


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1 Review

First Review by SabrinaAeluro

SabrinaAeluro

Points +41

Vegan
07 Feb 2022

Amazing vegan dining experience!

After two weeks in Ecuador of eating plain veg on rice/pasta and your typical vegan tourist options, I didn't expect to find anything in Ecuador that did upscale vegan food. However, I decided to email a number of fine dining establishments in Quito just to see if they could do vegan.

Thankfully, Chef Juan replied to my email quickly and was very happy to create a vegan version of their 8 course tasting menu for me. It was a world-class dinner with great explanations of ingredients, farm-to-table sourcing, and local foods. I am so happy I found this place, I couldn't recommend it more highly whether you're vegan or not. A lot of travel I do involves trying to explain that “no cheese, no milk, no butter” also means no ___ exact type of dairy product, but Juan at Quitu made sure to proactively ask about whether I wanted bee pollen in one of the dishes. Excellent attention to detail and I appreciate how accommodating they were.

(HappyCow only lets you rate a non-vegan restaurant up to 4/5 stars, otherwise I would have rated this a 5/5 stars.)

Pros: Locally-sourced, farm-to-table food, Excellent English for explanations, Unique and special after eating basic tourist chow




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