at Trigo in Willimantic

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Serves meat, vegan options available. Pizzeria with vegetarian pizzas that can be prepared with house-made vegan cheese alternative with an additional upcharge. Open Tue-Thu 4:00pm-9:00pm, Fri-Sat 4:00pm-10:00pm. Closed Sun-Mon.

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1 Review

First Review by mark m braunstein

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mark m braunstein

Points +481

Vegan
07 Jun 2024

the vegan cheese pizza is ok, while the hummus is stellar

It’s been said that an alcoholic can find a drink even in a desert. Can a vegan find a meal even in Willimantic? With the closure in March of 2023 of the all-vegetarian café, Not Only Juice (NOJ), Willimantic has lacked an eatery suitable for vegans. (Willi Brewing does not count, as its menu of industrialized mock meats are fake foods suitable only for mock vegans.) Now providing the option of vegan cheese on its pizza, Trigo may yet become a haven for vegetarians and vegans alike.

For vegans and omnivores alike, Trigo is a fun and friendly place to eat. Its attentive and informative waitstaff are especially friendly, and even the other customers are friendly. As a pizza bar, its booze menu is long, while its food menu is short. Yet in addition to pizza, it also offers a unique house-made hummus. The crudités that accompany it, too, are unique, namely white daikon in addition to traditional carrots and celery. I highly recommend the delicately flavored hummus. For my teetotaler WFPB vegan dinner mate and I, the hummus was the main attraction. But for most teetotalers the pizza will be the main event. While I typically shun white flour, on the plus side its crisp crust is thin, so the white flour is minimal.

The postmodern interior décor is inviting. The sturdy wooden tables are noteworthy, but the teeny tiny plastic schoolroom chairs are suitable only for leprechauns. Those uncomfortable chairs were probably rummaged from a dumpster behind the local elementary school. Let’s hope the antiquated chairs will soon be returned to that dumpster and be upgraded to match the shiny new tables.

Willimantic is a Pizza and Burger town, evidenced by its few vegetarian restaurants lasting so briefly. Paradise (Paradise Lost) lasted three years on Main St from 1995 to 1998. Café Live (Café Dead) on Church St was a record-breaker, barely 3 months in 2010. Not Only Juice (Not Any Juice) lasted 8 years on Main St from 2015 to 2023.

“Trigo” is Spanish (no, not Italian) for Wheat. (Wheat’s binomial Latin genus name is Triticum.) Ironically, Trigo offers a wheat-free pizza crust, for a surcharge. What will inspire me to return here is a pizza crust made of whole grain, surcharge or not. Until then, Willimantic remains a white flour Pizza crust and white flour Burger bun town.

Pros: the hummus dish, the friendly and attentive waitstaff

Cons: tiny chairs probably rummaged from a dumpster

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