After reading the good reviews my friends and I were excited to try this place since we just flew into LAX and we're happy to be back to California, the land with many vegan options. Unfortunately, I left here highly disappointed. The food was just alright, nothing that spectacular or extremely tasty. I had read reviews that the mac-n-cheese was the best, it really lacked any flavor. We also waited extremely long for our food, which came out at spaced out intervals even though some of us ordered the exact same thing. Having all that time to wait, we noticed something else. It appeared that the lighter your skin was, the lower on the priority list you fell. I am black, went with a friend who is mixed, and two that were white. My food came out about 10 minutes before everyone else's. Then the mixed girl's, then our two white friends. in fact, the whitest of the bunch got her food almost 20 minutes after my food came out! The rest of us were almost done eating by then. Unfortunately, we witnessed this pattern with several of the patrons where people came in several minutes after others, yet were served, ate, and left before other more light skinned folks got their food.
I really wanted to like this place, but part of the vegan lifestyle is about living with compassion. I just didn't see it in the behavior and the service there. I feel like we wasted $80.