Vegan classic bowl at Zambrero in Auckland

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Lacto
Fast food
Take-out
Mexican
Gluten-free
Non-veg

Serves meat, vegan options available. Mexican fast food franchise founded 2005 in Australia and is billed as "Mexican with a mission." Offers burritos, chikitos, nachos, and bowls. Guacamole is included with order. Menu items have vegan options, and vegan-friendly sauces are marked. For each meal purchased, a meal is donated to someone in need in a developing country. Open Mon-Sat 10:00am-10:00pm. Closed Sun.

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3 Reviews

First Review by Yolanda

Avatar GlobeTrotter18

GlobeTrotter18

Points +769

Vegan
13 Dec 2019

Concept is great - food is below average

Great to know $ goes to a good cause but the food is below average compared to many other Mexican fast food restaurants. Meals are pricey and the portions are small.

Beans were more like a paste.
Guacamole portions was very small.
Salsa was bland.

Pros: Vegan and glutenfree options

Cons: Pricey, Small portions

Avatar LucasYarid

LucasYarid

Points +414

Vegan
28 Apr 2018

Ok

Food is OK, a bit on the expensive side and not super big dishes.

Avatar Yolanda

Yolanda

Points +1856

Vegan
30 Jan 2018

Mexican food with a heart

I like how for each meal you buy another is donated to someone in need. I liked the compostable takeaway cartons tho the cutlery seemed to be plastic. The guy serving us was lovely. I also liked the location downtown as there was street seating which was great on a hot summer night.
I love Mexican food and it was good food - very tasty. Better than the average Mexican fast food.
What I was disappointed in was the fact that the vegan option was just the same as the vegetarian with the good bits taken out and not replaced. My friend had the vegetarian option so it was easy for me to compare her meal with mine as we both ordered the same thing (classic bowl). For a start she just had more food on her plate than mine because the cheese and the sour cream was generously served and so her dish was mounded with food and mine was not. We both got the same amount of guacamole. She had more choice of sauces to top it with and her choices were the creamy yummy ones and my choices because they were vegan were not. She absolutely loved her meal and I would have loved mine too if it was piled with all the yummy stuff that hers was piled with.
So although the food was good, I could not help but feel a bit resentful that yet again the vegan option is one where they take the non vegan food out but they don't give you anything else (except for the guacamole but then my friend had that in her vegetarian dish anyway) and they charge you the same. Also, it was not a big serving of beans (certainly not bigger than my friend's serving) and most of the container seemed to be lettuce so I was hungry sooner because there wasn't enough food to fill me up for long.

Pros: friendly staff, nice food, they give free food away to people in need

Cons: disappointed there was no vegan extras, same price as non vegan food for less food

Vegan classic bowl at Zambrero in Auckland

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