LA Vegan — Restaurant in Los Angeles

Small spot on Centinela. There's a pottery making place next door. They redesigned the interior. Not too fancy but still nice and comfortable. This place has the best vegan orange chicken I've ever had at any vegan place. It really tasted like the ones I used to eat at the Chinese restaurants as a child. The sweet and sourness of the thick orange sauce goes well with the crispy chicken. When I feel like orange chicken I go here. They also have shrimp tempura roll... fake shrimp deep fried in batter rolled up in brown rice with avocado and a mayo sauce. Tastes great especially when you dine in and have it fresh because it's still slightly crispy. The breakfast option is great too. I like the pancake and their scrambled "egg" ...I think it's tofu. It is mixed with different veggies and spices and the flavor is great by itself or with ketchup. Whatever you feel. Their chicken sate... which is imitation chicken on a skewered is also pretty good. It's grilled with a yellow sauce that reminds me of curry (probably uses similar spices) with a dipping peanut sauce. Their dessert is also pretty good but I usually can't get to it because of all the food I order. I like eating here and I...

My fellow travelers here will surely agree: when it comes to finding a spot to eat, especially at the end of a draining journey from Seattle to Los Angeles, there is no such thing as being picky. But believe me, friends, when I say that THIS place is worth spending your last gallons of fuel on- metaphorically or not. Exhausted, homesick yet tearing up at the thought of having only one last meal left on American land before catching a flight back to France: these were the circumstances in which I found this place, or, to be exact, in which this place found me. As a foreigner, specifically as a Parisian aspiring gourmet, I would tend to judge a book by its cover and a diner by its store front, and LA Vegan’s decor may not look like much or might not resemble what you expect from a West Coast vegan breakfast restaurant. But if you trust me enough to come in here and order anything- ANYTHING from the menu, you’ll be rewarded with the everlasting feeling that for once you made the right decisions in life. No, feeding someone after a three weeks long roadtrip across the worst A&Ws of the West isn’t that hard; but haunting a French mind for almost a year now with the world’s most delicious...

I cannot say enough good things about this place! I wish I had written my review right after eating there, because I was over the moon refreshed and filled with joy from how good the food was. I was literally skipping down the street, absolutely estactic!! 😍😋

I ordered the fried mint, which I really had no idea what was coming with that, was it just fried mint, was it a rice dish? Had no idea, but when I received it, I was pleasantly surprised! It was a whole blend of sautéed veggies with the mint and a plate of rice on the side. The sauce was to die for!! And in perfect pairing, I had ordered a young coconut to drink. Also had no idea what to expect, but it was PHENOMENAL!! If you like coconut anything, this is better, because it's the actual thing with the obviously actual flavor, and suddenly, your coconut flavored things no longer stand in comparison. But I digress, the food was amazing, the mouth feel was amazing, the taste lingered in all the best ways and I wish I lived here so I could experience this all the time. If you need a pick me up after a rough day, 100% go to LA...