Vegan Mob - Vegan BBQ and Soul Food — Restaurant in Vallejo

Okay yall, listen- I have come here about once a month since it has opened in Vallejo and I will certainly continue coming as long as I live here. HOWEVER, this place has some major issues with staffing, training, food consistency, and health standards. The first I will mention in the health standards. If the staff here don’t already know this, you are NOT suppose to touch the food you are going to serve customers. It’s completely unsanitary even if you have washed your hands. Food standards require you to wear gloves to touch any food you will serve a customer. My second mention is they used to serve tap water to customers here… some people may drink tap water but health standards do not allow you to serve it to customers. This is why they discontinued it. The fact that they didn’t know this and served it in the first place says to me that this place is not doing its due diligence on keeping up with health standards. Next, the staff here…. Almost every time I come in, it’s someone new and almost always it seems like they have no idea what they are doing. I am sure the staff here are completely undertrained. I feel bad for them but also it’s apparent when I am served. Another note on staffing, once when I was in here, one of the managers were smoking in the bathroom for about 20 min. I’m not sure this is professional, safe, or healthy for a food establishment. I had ordered a strawberry lemonade the last time I came in and apparently they were out. Which is fine. But the staff gave me a mango drink instead without even mentioning they were out of the strawberry lemonade. In my opinion, the decent thing to do would be to tell the customer, NOT serve them the wrong item. The last thing I will mention is the food consistency. It’s horrible. While the food itself still okay every time. It’s almost always different. Today I ordered 3 orders of tacos and for some reason 2 of the orders had different tortillas. I have ordered burgers before and the buns are different. Sometimes they use different branded meet in the burgers. They also have served me chicken sandwiches that are cold in the middle. Sometimes the fries have seasoning, sometimes they don’t. I order the strawberry lemonade almost every time. It’s suppose to be fresh strawberries and lemons. The last time I got this, it seemed like it was some high fructose corn syrup juice purchased from the grocery story. I asked the owner about it and he had nothing to say. The truth is, you never know what you’re going to get. And this is something that deeply annoys me at food establishments. All in all, I’m still going to eat here but I hope they make...

My partner used to love going here so we had to stop by when we were down from Humboldt. We drove to Oakland because the website and google indicated it would be open, but it was closed which was okay we just ended up going to this location. The service was amazing like I’d come back to this location to try again just because of how great the service is. Unfortunately we didn’t love the meal this time. They were out of a lot of the sides and all the drinks (except canned drinks), which is understandable it happens. The food was really (like really really) cold sadly and I ordered the ribs, but unfortunately it was really soupy? Like maybe the salad dressing or something I’m not sure I posted a picture. They definitely didn’t look like the ribs that they posted on TikTok so I originally thought maybe I was served the wrong thing, but apparently that is them. The salad was good and I definitely think the sides would have been great if they were warm. I even liked my partners candied yams and I usually don’t like yams. We ended up asking for a refund for my plate because it was $23 for a plate that I didn’t eat, but my partner ate hers! Amazing customer service, highly disappointed in the food, but we are definitely willing to give it...

I hadn't ever seen a vegan soul food/bbq restaurant before, so I was eager to try Vegan Mob. The employees were friendly and helpful, and we got our food fairly quickly. To be honest, I had mixed feelings about the food. I ordered a mob plate with the brisket, mac & cheese, beans, and candied yams.

The candied yams were perfection - easily my favorite part of the meal. They were sweet and soulful with just the right consistency - not too mushy, not too hard.

The bbq beans were solid, and I enjoyed them a lot, too. These were also the right consistency and flavorful.

The brisket was okay. I'm not quite sure what I would have wanted to change about it. Maybe I just don't like brisket.

I had a hard time finishing my mac and cheese. This was the first time I had eaten vegan mac and cheese and possibly my first time eating vegan cheese So, maybe I'm just not used to the taste and had the wrong expectations.

Overall, I'm glad I gave Vegan Mob a try, and I wish them much success! IMO the world needs more vegan restaurants, and I'm glad...