The Chickpea

Yummy wholesome food, very vegan friendly and priced right. Love the red pepper hummus! This is an easy walk from the City Place mall area, convention center, and a bunch of nearby hotels.

A unique store front with a wide variety of Vegan & Vegetarian options prepared in front of you.

They had me at clearly marked vegan items; the only restaurant on Clematis to have such markings. Also marked on the menu, vegetarian items, items with nuts, and gluten free items. Once you get a handle on the menu, you chose if you want a salad, wrap, or bowl with a base of rice (basmati or brown rice combined with lentils) or greens as a base (lots of greens options from spinach to a super greens mix of kale/watercress/cabbage) and then add a "protein" of hummus, falafel, or organic marinated tofu, choose flavors such a various hummus options, baba ganoush, or mhamara pesto. Finally, lots of salad like toppings including seeds, herbs, kalamata olives, beets, cucumber/tomata salad, avocado, etc. There is also one pre-made vegan bowl on the menu and standard vegan falafel bowl/wrap on the menu.

I loved that there are so many customizable vegan options. The food is good, and I left feeling like I had a good, clean, healthy meal. The interior is modern and clean. The seating space is small but comfortable. Fresh herbs adorn the tables in natural clay pots. They have infused water and lots of tea options. Also organic, local kombucha in the cold case and local raw-vegan chunky-dunky cookies in the cold case.

Updated from previous review on 2014-04-23

so happy to find this place! I had the Vegan Delight bowl, it was delicious. Falafel is made fresh when you order.
Loved the quinoa and hummus too. Carrot Ginger Lemonade and Watermelon lemonade were really good too.

The food and the staff are great. We really enjoyed it.