We discovered this place only a few months ago and we loved it when we first tried it. We recently went back after leaving the area for a few months and were disappointed by a few things. We went once with friends and the fries were cold and stale. We figured they might have been busy and gave them the benefit of the doubt. We went back again - the fries were equally cold and stale, the "clam" chowder was really gross, thick, and grey with almost no oyster mushrooms at all. We also didn't recognize any of the staff and noticed that our waitress wasn't that friendly or helpful and didn't really fill up our glasses. It was a much different experience than the first few times we went a few months ago. On top of that, there's a bunch of misinformation being pushed by the restaurant owner about Question 5. The owner has put up signs, posters and pins all over the restaurant saying that tipped staff totally opposes Question 5 and that it's bad for workers and pushed by special interests. To be clear, every city that has introduced a law to raise minimum wage for their tipped staff (San Francisco, Seattle etc.), has seen the staff paid 20% more on average than tipped staff in other parts of the country without a similar law and they are generally happier knowing they have stable income so they can, you know, pay bills and stuff. Also, this doesn't force tipped staff to pool tips and this doesn't mean customers will stop tipping (it didn't happen in other parts of the country where bills like this were introduced). Question 5 is a bill proposed by labor advocacy groups that try to help workers. The only people that oppose these bills are greedy business owners that claim they can't run a business without paying their staff slave wages. So, despite supposedly being a progressive vegetarian restaurant, it seems like the owner cares more about profit and their bottom line than they do about the well-being of their staff and their clients. That's more than likely why we literally didn't recognize any staff, the service wasn't as good, and the food wasn't as good - most experienced staff probably left this toxic workplace. It's disappointing, because the food and service used to be great. I won't go back here, and you should also reconsider eating here for the sake of the workers.