Hangry Vegan — Restaurant in Waterloo

HONEST REVIEW* Overall, I appreciate the restaurant for trying to provide vegan options- though the food menu isn’t great and the delivery services take at the bare minimum 1-1.5hrs (I’ve used DoorDash, SkipTheDishes and recently mainly UberEats). Since they’ve opened, I’ve tried almost (if not all) of the menu items and there are only a few I’ve enjoyed.

Recommendations: Vegan Grilled Cheese: Perfectly crispy & super cheesy, Vegan Pesto & Egg on Sourdough: the most delicious light breakfast/lunch, the pesto & parm together is too good, Vegan Sausage Breakfast Burrito: Reminds me of the Tim Hortons chipotle wrap I used to get before going vegan- so yummy!, Vegan Chicken Burger (Buffalo or Original): the perfect crunch & never had vegan “chicken” that tastes like this, it’s probably one of my favourites, Vegan Cheesecake Slice (I get Strawberry or Blueberry): A MUST TRY, Vegan Brownie, Vegan S’mores Cookie: both brownie and cookie are yummy cheap desserts to add with your meals! ** The Mediterranean Kebab Bowl is delicious, asides from the dried out burnt falafels as “marinated kebab balls”, the Greek salad with dressing & rice is delicious!! I wish you could order it without the falafel but when I just ordered a Greek salad, it was nothing remotely close to this dish.

Have tried, DO NOT recommend: Plant-Based Sausage & Fennel Ravioli: Basic Marinara sauce, no herbs & store bought plant-based ravioli (Pasta Tavola is the brand it tastes like if you’ve tried) it’s very unenjoyable, nothing like ravioli, Wood-Fired Pizzas: I got mine burnt, the crust tasted thick and similar to a cauliflower crust taste, hardly any toppings, Chicken Parm: A basic plant-based breaded patty with the same basic marinara sauce used in pastas, with very little cheese on top of dry pasta, Pretzel & Bacon Cheese Burger: *explained below with bacon, this ruined the taste of the burger, Vegan BLT sandwich *same reasoning, Mixed Gourmet chips: Tastes like a knockoff version of the TERRA chips and more of a “soggy” texture, Parm & Pesto Vegan Egg Burger: “NotCo Burger is very “stiff” it’s not like a “melt in your mouth” burger, especially with these ingredients mixed in- would’ve been better with an impossible burger, Vegan Tenders: It’s just Gardien tenders, they’ve always undercooked them when I’ve ordered causing them to fall apart, and too soft to pick up, Roasted Tomato Basil Soup: extremely bland, not flavourful whatsoever, lacks seasoning better off grabbing a can of tomato soup!, Vegan Dumplings: these were so flavourless and the dumpling wrapper was hard, making it difficult to bite into, Pierogi Sheppards Pie Bowl: Tastes like a microwavable dinner, the pierogis used in this are not good and the Shepards pie has no authentic taste, pretty much just ingredients slapped together. Teriyaki steak & Dumplings: please do not buy this- it’s absolutely terrible the sauce is extremely bitter and has no “teriyaki” or “umami” flavours, noodles were hard, the “steak” chunks were inedible because they were too tough to chew through. ** The pretzel buns are usually stale, I aim for brioche most of the time to avoid this issue. ** The vegan bacon brand they use, I really dislike. It’s extremely salty and not crispy at all, very chewy, so I don’t recommend any of their meals that contain “bacon”.

Not great, not terrible: Vegan Beef Chili, Smashed GUAC Box, Samosa & Chutney,

Anything I haven’t mentioned, I haven’t tried. I spent a lot of time writing this review to save my fellow vegan peeps the hassle of wasting money & time, being extremely disappointed, dissatisfied, frustrated and let down by ordering the very terrible meals they do have. Instead, if you want to give it a try- the recommendations may help! I would never bash a restaurant trying their best to be inclusive to the vegan community, however this company could use some feedback to make changes to make the menu as a whole,...

My husband stumbled upon this ghost kitchen lurking V friendly options for me. I had a chance to call stuff ahead and verify an allergy and they were kind and read off ingredients.

However, we are both fairly disappointed with the purchase. The image used for the butter chicken was very deceiving, looked like cubes of tofu or soy and a traditional sauce. The sauce was very thick, dark and did not carry through traditional flavors. It was also long strips of vegan chicken. The best part of this dish was the rice.

We also got the souvlaki plate and it was completely cold. Which we watched it be delivered and appeared to come straight her. So unsure if it was a traveling issue. The house made tatziki was immensely bland and tasted like just vegan sour cream.

We're sad it didn't turn out better as we're always hunting for new places.

Overall, we wouldn't order this again (atleast these items) and probably would pick up ourselves to eat in the car verse take home to avoid...

Disappointing for the most part :(

The people were nice, but the food was very disappointing.. And I’m not very picky with food..

Butter chick’n: The chick’n itself wasn’t tasty, it feels it wasn’t marinated at all. The rice was also overcooked and dry. Chick’n Parm: There was a very bitter aftertaste in the chick’n, and the pasta was way overcooked - It broke apart when you tried to scoop it with a fork Lemon Thai Soup: Okay Chick’n wings: Apparently was out of order, so they replaced it by chick’n nuggets combo. It was the second best thing I had from my order, but I didn’t really want it BLT: The only thing that was good was the BLT - The bread and ingredients used were really great, I could eat it every day.

I’ll probably go back for the BLT, but but not for any of the other items,...