The Living Root Cellar — Restaurant in Redlands

Absolutely overpriced for what you get. I ordered the BLT with a cow slaw on the side and the Acai bowl (it's not a bowl it's a tiny cup with some granola). The sandwich wasn't anything that I couldn't just whip up in a matter to minutes myself. Vegan bacon, vegan mayonnaise, tomato, lettuce and avocado on Dave's killer bread. That's about it. And they charge 13 bucks for it! The Acai "bowl" is also something one can easily make at home with basic ingredients that are available at every grocery store and they charge 8 bucks for it. Absolute price gauging. How about you make your own bread, own house spread and own vegan bacon etc. And then you can charge so much. And the fact that the owner is an anti vaxxer who, before the pandemic started, claimed that covid is just like the flu and that our immune systems will take care of it (haha sure hundred of thousands died because their immune systems couldn't handle it) and who also thinks that tuberculosis was cured by people's immune systems (it said so on a flyer that he/she put on the counter inside the store but little does he/she know that tuberculosis isn't a viral infection and that it was cured by giving people antibiotics and that there was never a vaccine for tuberculosis but what can one expect from a scientific illiterate person?) suggests to me that the owner lives in a different reality anyway. Maybe in their reality charging 13 dollars for two slices of Dave's killer bread with some vegan bacon and avocado is justified. Absolutely laughable. It was delicious, though, so if you are lazy and loaded with money go ahead order...

The Spicy raw tacos are amazingly delicious! The Beet burger is great too! Loved the whole wheat burger buns! My husband and I split both of them and it was perfect. We also got 2 add-on sides of Broccoli salad which were tasty too but we would have been satisfied without them. One would have been enough just for a little taste. (FYI it's just $1.50 if you get a salad with a main dish (and it's a tinier serving). If you want more you can get a regular side order which is $4.00 but the tiny one was plenty for me along with the other food.) The soups look good too and the sloppy Joe jackfruit burger. The drinks look great too! Staff was friendly and helpful. The only thing that would make this better would be more comfy seating and better ambiance for dine-in (it's just a simple table with metal chairs in the downstairs "root cellar" ;), but I realize this takes time and money and they're probably catering more to take-outs which is understandable! Great...

Always try to support vegan businesses but literally every single time I come here there has been an issue. Each time they are out of something. This time they were out of tortillas to make the burrito I had already ordered online. I got the BLAT instead and it was just a piece of bacon and 1 slice of tomato on bread with lettuce. Just bad. They forgot to call us and tell us our order was ready so we were waiting in the car while our food was sitting. They forgot one of our juices and we almost drove off without it. And to top it off, there was a hair in my bfs beet burger. Safe to say this will be the last visit. I know it’s a small business but that’s just bad service and bad quality for food I can make...