Category: Vegan Friendly
Rating: 7.5
Website: https://communitybeer.com/community-kitchen-menu-web/
This was a different experience. We would highly one category in particular but all 4 categories this time around were fairly mixed. Want details on that statement? Check out our video review below!
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Category: Vegan
Rating: 7.9
The Vegan Vibrationz (Pun Intended) of this meetup was the definition of a mixed bag. Ultimately a tasty food experience runs into a mediocre atmosphere one. It isn’t completely their fault though. Or is it? Continue further to find out! Not in the mood to read? Check out the video review below!
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Food: Easily the best category here is the food. We were impressed by how the servings sizes were structured to make us full. Another highlight were the variety of protein sources for their menu. Most places just have impossible or beyond meat and call it a day but they proteins such as walnut meat for example. All in all they are solid when it comes to food
Atmosphere: Here is where it gets a little controversial. They are one of the restaurants inside of legacy hall. That means that they have all of the pros and cons of legacy hall. If you like the sports bar feel of the place, you’ll probably like the atmosphere here. If you don’t though, this can be an issue. Legacy Hall when we went (Which was on a Saturday) was loud, packed and hard to find seating. Many veggie outers took issue with these cons. The divisive part though is the fact that Vegan Vibrationz is not a dine in restaurant so are the cons their fault in this case? We’ll leave that decision up to you.
Customer Service: This is another category that has layers to it based on their situation. On one hand, our experience with the Vegan Vibrationz staff themselves were great! They were fairly timely and friendly. However, the table at which we sat at were very slow to get cleaned so we could get seated. That in itself isn’t their fault but since stuff like this subtract from the customer service experience in general, we felt there was a cap on how far they can really go in this category. For further elaboration on this, check out Elijah’s part in the video review where he discusses this in greater detail.
Price: They are kind of pricy but every place is at this point. One thing to note in particular here though is this depends a lot on what your get. Some entrees like the nachos are packed with food which balance out the high price. Others are a little underdeveloped for the price. Because of this, we’d recommend seeing a picture of what you’ll get so that your expectations can be in the right place. These are provided in the food section of the video review
Overall Vegan Vibrationz offers great food by very friendly and fast staff but the legacy hall experience can hold the restaurant back from reaching its full potential for some people.
Category: Vegan Friendly
Rating: 8.9
Website: https://www.sankofakitchen.com/
We enjoyed ourselves at Sankofa Kitchen. Seeing as we have been here once before, the main thing that has changed is that their menu is bigger and they have moved to a different location. The new location is still in Duncanville though. For details about the restaurant, checkout our previous review here. You can see our video review for details on what food we got and what our individual ratings were.
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Category: Vegan
Rating: 6.8
Website: https://www.veganvoodoolounge.com/_files/ugd/65a33c_7004ebfaa23c4caaa5352c3115d8eeab.pdf
The best summary of our experience here is that the meetup was interesting but for a variety of reasons. Some good, some bad. Not in the mood to read? Check out the video review below!
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Food: This was easily the most mixed that we’ve ever felt about a restaurant when it comes to the food. Some of us loved the food while other really didn’t like it. There wasn’t really a middle ground. You either love it or hate it! We go more into detail on this in the video review but our advice to ask for the top 3 most popular items and pick something from one of those 3 since there most popular items are the most consistent when it comes to likability.
Atmosphere: The place is decked out in a African style theme. Not unlike the Pan African Connection Bookstore. There are sculptures all over the way as well as various crystals , beads and crystal books on display on for sale. Combine this with the afro beats that are playing in the background and you have yourself an Afrocentric atmosphere. We greatly found it to our liking! Some of us thought the music was a bit too loud but that aside, we enjoyed it. You may want to bring a jacket with you if you are dining in though as we found the inside to be a little chilly. Worse case scenerio, if it’s not that day then you could always take the jacket off.
Customer Service: Sadly this is where we have to be the most critical. It’s important to keep in mind that there were 16 of us so were weren’t a small crowd. Even still, it took around an hour for everyone to get their food. That’s not us collectively. We’re saying that from the time one veggie outer order their food, they got their food an hour later in most cases. That’s entirely too slow. On the brighter side, they are extremely nice and we liked the fact that they had a few physically menus that we could look at when deciding on what to order. Many restaurants just have their menu online nowadays. The actually menu in the store is bigger and has more options then the one we saw on their website and on the food delivery apps like Uber Eats and Doordash. This is something you’ll want to take note of. Sadly, this can’t make up for a long wait time though. Our advice is to order ahead of time if possible so that the wait can be massively reduced. Although part of the wait was due to our group size so that’s something to consider too.
Price: The prices in terms of a value ratio vary depending on what you get which is somewhat strange. Some of us felt what we got was well priced but others felt it was priced poorly. There were even some people that were kind of in the middle. Because of this, we’re going to refer you to watch the price section of our video review below. In there, we all share what each person got on the menu and commented on the price for that particular item. That should help you make a more informed decision when it comes to the price and value of it.
Overall we found the atmosphere to be the best element of the meetup. The food and price vary depending on what was order but the customer service could use some improvement. Mainly when it comes to the speed of getting the food out.
Category: Vegan
Rating: 8.5
Website: https://spiraldiner.com/
Spiral Diner provided a great dining experience while having some slight controversies with prices and customer service. We go more into detail on this in the review so lets get started! Not in the mood to read? Check out the video review below!
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Food: We universally enjoyed the food here. The menu has a LOT of variety in it. So much that regardless of what type of taste buds you have, Spirals will likely have something on their menu that will satisfy them. The only real critiuqe that we have ( it’s more of a nitpic) is if they could add traditional french fries to their menu, that’d be awesome. As it stands, they don’t really have and form for french fries. Given the type of food that they serve, we feel it’s appropriate to include them. Without them, the sides on the menu seem incomplete. That aside, the food was great!
Customer Service: The staff is very friendly and they attended to us regularly. Plus, they have actually keep the old school format of someone taking your order at your table and bringing your food out. That alone deserves praise since nowadays, a lot of restaurants are attempting to move towards a self serving model. As you can tell, we aren’t fans of the self serving model so it’s nice to see a traditional service model in place. We did have an issue here though. As more members came, it would have been nice to have an additional table for our group. They didn’t give us an extra table so some of us had to sit separate from the group table. If they were packed to full capacity, this would be understandable but they were only at 50 to 70 percent occupancy during the meetup. There were tables literally just sitting there that could have been used. All other restaurants have been accommodating in this regard so this is some feedback that we hope they might implement going forward since it is somewhat of an industry standard.
Atmosphere: It has the atmosphere of a diner. What more can we say? Visually we wppreciated the art on the walls and the plants that they had in the restaurant. It’s only fitting that a plant based restaurant have some plants, right? These plants were real though and well maintained so that was a nice visual touch. It can get loud inside the restaurant though so you’ll want to keep that in mind ahead of time.
Price: The prices were kind of high when compared to other restaurants, vegan ones included. Inflation has had an effect on the whole industry so prices have increase everywhere accross the board. For Spirals though, they’ve increase 2 to 3 dollars more then other places which makes one of the more expensive places that we’ve been to.
Overall Spiral Diner in Fort Worth was an enjoyable experience. The food is tasty and has a lot in term of variety. This experience does have a price to it but it is an experience nonetheless.
