Earthy Vegan Cuisine Catering — Restaurant in San Jose

I've been to a few functions at Moose Mountain Vineyards (so atmosphere goes without saying that its 5 star!) where I believe they are the exclusive caterer. While I've been mostly vegan for a few years now, I am still intrigued by what restaurants and caterers create. We are all trained to believe that we aren't getting protein unless there is a dead animal on our plates ~ and its hard to convince meat eaters of this. I'm mostly vegan by choice and don't miss meat. However, I challenge you to bring your meat eater to a function where they are catering, or have them cater your Super Bowl party, in fact - I double dog dare you.

Have them serve up a table full of these nachos picture in the middle ~ don't tell a soul its vegan. They. Won't. Know. The. Difference.

If they haven't completely devoured the nachos, have them take a bite into a Coxinhas (pretty sure they are in the 3rd photo). They'll think it's a warm chicken salad fritter or maybe they'll think it's a crabcake pouch , but shhhhhhh, it's jackfruit and it melts in your mouth so divinely you've eaten five before you realize you have to leave some for the other people there! (True story, I was devouring them). There's accoutrements that add to these dishes too (see pictures) - fresh salsas, etc along many other dishes that I've tried. In fact there's one with butternut squash (I think) served over rice that is insanely delicious. All I know is you'll find yourself asking the chef: how'd you make this? What's in that? I can't believe this tastes so good! And you won't be disappointed in the...

Every once in a while I look for new vegan restaurants near me. This time, Earthly Vegan Cuisine came up, and I am so glad it did! It's a completely vegan delivery and catering company operating out of a ghost kitchen in San Jose. On their website they say they "started this project out of passion for cooking and a desire to share our love for vegan food with others." The dishes are inspired by the flavors of Brazil.

I placed my order on their website for pick up. I went to the wrong door initially, 336 (which is also a ghost kitchen) instead of 326. The food was ready when I arrived, and the bag had my name and a short but sweet thank you message.

I ordered the following: Vegan cheese balls: this is a yummy appetizer - fried balls of corn and vegan mozzarella! Canjiquinha Soup: this soup is creamy and tasty - similar to a porridge Bobo de shimeji: I'm not a big fan of mushrooms, so this was my least favorite Feijoada: I loved this dish with black beans and tofu and I'm not sure why, but the almond flour is so good.

The order comes with a few sauces (the blue one goes with the cheese balls!). I found an extra container which didn't seem to belong to any of the dishes I ordered. It turns out they included a complimentary dessert!

I hope Earthy Vegan Cuisine does well! I will definitely go again...

I felt sick just looking at this food. The vegan cheese balls were pretty good, but soooo filling, you really can’t eat more than one. I was also really turned off by the blue sauce. It was actually fine in flavor, but why is it blue? We also ordered the vegan fish-cod cakes which tasted as expected, just salty for my taste. Also $14 per appetizer! Way too expensive for the low quality. And lastly the vegan eggplant lasagna which was sooo “cheesy” that it made me gag. On the other hand, I did enjoy the tapioca pudding, but again $9.50 was way to expensive for a dessert. Such a shame, I really wanted to like this new vegan...