Da Munchies Review (Dallas)

Category: Vegan Friendly

Overall Rating: 8.8

Da Munchies Website: https://www.damunchiesusa.com/

After having Da Munchies for a few months, we decided to pay them a visit no puns intended.  Roomers have been circulating all over the vegan community in the DFW about this awesome restaurant with fun and tasty vegan options. It was only a matter of time before we paid them a visit. I'm glad to say that they didn't fail to deliver. We greatly enjoyed ourselves at Da munchies and while you can probably already tell that by now, the details below will make that even more apparent!   

Food: The food's theme is more less vegan junk food as they call. It lives up to its name. The menu consist of stuff you would find yourself having munchies for. The menu is very creative and tasty. What we all found to be eccentric and refreshing is the menu is so many meat replacements that fit the munchies stereotype without using soy or setian. They are made from things such as Califlower, Plantains and jack fruit just to name a few. This makes their many VERY accommodating to anyone that has wheat or soy allergies. This is all accomplished without the quality of food being dropped. This makes this resturant unique in its own way and is a much needed change of pace from a food perspective.

Atmosphere: The experience felt very lounge like. They had comfortable seating via a sofa and chairs. This was accompanied with music in the background ranging from upbeat to more slow tone. The music was loud enough to set a relaxing mood but low enough so that we could still hear each other talk. Overall the atmosphere was great! the only negative at this time is seating is somewhat limited inside. While we didn't directly encounter this, if a lot of people happen to come in at once and want to eat inside, it could potential be a seating issue. As they expand, hopefully this issue will eventually go away.

Customer Service: They were very accommodating to us both in setting us coming and when we got there. We were given attention to make sure we were ok on a frequent basis. Not much more can be said other then we felt very welcomed and if there's a text book definition of customer service, i would say that's it!

Our experience with the munchies was very favorable. The menu offer something new and refreshing to the Vegan community, serving it in a very laid back environment with great service. We'll definitely have to pay them another visit!

V Eats Modern Vegan Review ( Closed)

Category: Vegan

Overall Rating 7.1

Website: http://www.v-eats.com/

This was definitely a change from the 1st time we paid them a visit when they 1st opened (You can see that review here. The menu has expanded since we pay them a visit last. More options make for a more diverse dining experience which is always good. This time around they had a very noticeable problem when it came to customer service though. In many ways, the dining experience take a step forward while the customer service takes a few steps back.

Food: We enjoyed the food. The menu had more options and then before and most of us had nothing but good things to say about our food. It should be mentioned that some items from the line menu we not present at the restaurant menu. They have a variety of different types of dishes. Some of the dishes are literally hybrids of different types of dishes which makes for a creative and unique menu of choices that we rarely see anywhere else. What we liked most how they nailed the textured of meat and dairy products. The vegan butters used tasted almost identical to the real thing and most of their entree give you the option to choice your meat substitute. You can pick Soy, Setian or in some cases black beans. This is more of a nitpick but it is worth mentioning. Eventually it would be nice to have more desserts to pick from. That side, the food was solid!

Atmosphere: This is literally a copy and paste from the 1st time we came here. Given the location of the restaurant being across from the Trinity bridge, it was a very nice view. They have a patio which is where we sat. Music was also featured in the background. There was a good variety but for the most part, all the tracks played were mostly laid back.  You can hear it both inside and on the patio but it is louder inside. It wasn’t to the point where we couldn’t hear each other talk which is always a plus. The lighting of the area and music played made for an overall nice atmosphere. It gives off a very champagne life feel overall.

Customer Service: This is the area that has severally dropped in quality since our last visit. It started with the fact that they no longer do reservation in advance so we had to make it upon arrivial. It took a very long time (45 minutes to and hour) from the time we ordered our food until it came out too us. It also took around 20 minutes just to get us our beverages and most of the time we needed our waitress, one of us had to get her attention as opposed to her checking on us regularly. The biggest problem by far is apparently if you have a party bigger then 6 people, they will combine all the checks and expect a massive payment. In other words, they won’t separate the checks. Once it was made clear that it wasn’t going to happen, they separated the checks based on what was ordered on the menu but that kind of setup is impractical in the 1st place. This is probably the biggest contributor to the low score in this area. We came to the conclusion that they may be short staffed so hopefully as more staff is hired, a lot of these problems can be a thing of the past.

Overall the food was very good and better then before. The atmosphere was great as always but they really dropped the ball in the customer service. All the factors about led to a very low average score for the customer service being 4.6. That brought the overall score down quite a bit. Hopefully it’s only temporary. You can check the video review below for additional details.

El Palote (Mesquite)

Overall rating: 8.5

This was an interesting review. Our opinions were fairly mixed to say the least. El Polote is a Little Mexican kitchen turning out tacos, burritos & tortas as well as a variety of baked goods. For more information, click on the video below.  The video review does go into more details but keep in mind that the review takes everything the restaurant is into account.

Food: We all thought the food was acceptable to good but there are 2 factors that weight against it overall. The 1st one is with it being the 1st of its kind (A vegan Mexican restaurant), the comparison that has to and will be made is to other normal Mexican restaurants. As pointed out in our video review, the taste is similar but still different. The other factor is it is more expensive then a normal Mexican restaurant and in some cases, other vegan restaurants. Even if the taste was excellent, that is a factor that should be mentioned and considered.

Customer service: While there wasn’t anything bad about their customer service, it wasn’t anything spectacular either. We did point out how it would have been nice to have a tutorial of what foods taste like what. While that’s seen as a bonus, the other vegan restaurant’s (Which are their competition to a certain degree) staff are very well informed and accommodating in helping you order for the 1st time based on your taste buds. It wasn’t a deal breaker but it would have been nice.

Atmosphere: Very good atmosphere overall. It wasn’t loud enough to the point where we couldn’t hear each other talk. The T.V volume was also just the right noise to where if you wanted to watch it, you could but it wasn’t loud enough to interrupt conversation. A good experience here.

Overall: The food was decent but pricy, customer service was average and the atmosphere was good. Our universal advice is to have an idea of what you want ahead of time and expect it to be more pricier then a typical Mexican restaurant. It definitely is worth a try but one should be aware of the factors mentioned in this review ahead of time.

Meatout 2018

We had a very fun time at Meatout 2018! It was full of demos, presentations, vendors and services that educate or are in support of a plant based diet. On top of this, we got to see Rapper Grey, a vegan rapper interviewed and perform live. The footage of both are below.

Rapper Grey's Interview

Rapper Grey's live performance

Genghis Grill (Our 3rd Anniversary)

Every since the veggie outers was started in 2016, our anniversary is always held at genghis grill in addision. Since we have reviewed it twice, i'll let our video review do all the talking here and you can visit our 1st 2 reviews (Review 1, Review 2) for anything left out. Overall they did take a few steps back from what we normally expect. For details, click on the video review.