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  • CLOSED: The Jasmine Garden
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  • White Vegetarian
Vegan-friendly
Lacto
Western
Beer/Wine
Take-out
Asian

Fine dining vegetarian cuisine. Gluten free choices marked on menu. Prices moderate to expensive with each main entrees at $14. Reported closed/shut down to HappyCow.

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2 Reviews

First Review by Ken4057

Avatar janeh

janeh

Points +51

Vegan
09 Oct 2010

Great food

Want to put my 2 cents in - I am a member of Durham Veg Group and we have had several dinners there - the food is very good, cooked fresh and very tasty - even non-veggies who eat there love the food. So happy to be able to eat a meal without looking at someone eating a dead animal.

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Ken4057

Points +1200

Vegan
23 Dec 2009

How I wish I could say good things

It was a complete shock when Durham County's first veggie restaurant opened up a stone's throw from my family home. First shock, then pure joy! So imagine my disappointment when it turned out to be the worst veg restaurant I've ever experienced.

Please note that this happened shortly after the place opened. Perhaps the chef has developed rapidly since then. But judging by the lack of reviews, I'm not so sure.

My gf and I ordered what had been labelled spring rolls, a cajun special, and mock chicken.

The spring rolls were limp and flavourless. It was like they'd been stripped of interest and then microwaved.

The "cajun" dish turned out to be cooked onion, kidney beans and white rice. NOTHING cajun about it in the least. It looked like something a poor college veggie would eat, and tasted like they couldn't even afford salt or spices.

It was $10.

The mock chicken - I kid you not - was so soya slices, boiled in vegetable stock.

It was $10.

I met the chef - the matriarch of the Indian family who worked there - and suggested she might try sourcing mock meats from around Toronto. She declined, saying that she preferred to make everything from scratch. I was too polite to point out that boiled So Soya slices was hardly scratch.

Sooo deeply disappointed I cannot even describe it. I'm not going back until I've heard that things have changed drastically.

If you're in Whitby and in need of veg food, try the Durham Lakeside Vegetarian Group's list of restaurants in the region. There are others, though no strictly veg ones.

Zero sad cows (though two is the minimum I can rate it).

Pros: friendly, unique in area

Cons: awful in every other way

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