True Bistro review

[bobobb.livejournal.com]

I just went to check out True Bistro, the new vegan restaurant in Teele Square and I wanted to pass on a big thumbs up. I got the seitan sausage sandwich which was really, really good and my friend got a veggie burger (less exciting). I'm a big fan of good vegan restaurants and would be delighted if this one stayed in business.

Has anyone else tried it? Any thoughts?

Comments

[emp42ress.livejournal.com]

Yeah, we went for dinner, and I was also quite impressed. They seem to be doing foody-vegan and doing it right. The vegan spaetzle was surprisingly good.

[real-green-tea.livejournal.com]

I liked it! They need to fix the lighting. Soup and salad were good. I liked that not everything tasted like it had a ton of Earth Balance in it!
Brownie tasted like something out of my kitchen.

[quinnesocrates.livejournal.com]

I went to the soft opening and I was very impressed. I have a nut allergy (which is tricky in a vegan restaurant) and the chef came out and spent a lot of time with me figuring out what I could eat. Seitan cutlets, squash ravioli, and mashed potatoes.

Also, it was delicious!

[surrealestate.livejournal.com]

I went to one of the soft opening events as well and went for the Teele Square Burger, which I loved. The fries were only okay -- I'm a french fry snob and while yay that they make them, suspect they don't do the proper double-fry technique, which is really necessary to get proper fries when you're starting from raw potatoes (as opposed to bought-frozen).

The soup was fabulous as well, and the salad quite nummy, and big enough that soup&salad would make a perfect lunch there. The sauteed greens were cooked just right, but it was broccoli rabe, which is one of my less favorite greens so I didn't have much of them. I also enjoyed the quiche and the Vietnamese sandwich, though I'd ask for the latter without the cilantro, since I found it somewhat overwhelming. (The cilantro lover did not agree. :)

(No, I didn't order all that, of course, but we all tasted each other's dishes.)

[withinmywill.livejournal.com]

The squash ravioli is fantastic. The seitan piccata is alright.

[teele-sq.livejournal.com]

can you elaborate on the lighting? from the outside it looks way too bright.

[real-green-tea.livejournal.com]

The lights *are* bright and that's part of the problem. The lighting over/at the tables themselves is dim. So as I was blinking, the light went light-dark...light-dark...light-dark... a little disorienting (I kind of half thought I was going to get a seizure from it).

Something needs to happen so there is more of a gradient between the light level at the height of the fixtures, and the light level at the height of the tables/food/company. The fixtures themselves could have translucent shades or something else to soften the color, or at least just diffuse the light a little more. Just something to make the ambience a little more pleasant. Right now the effect produced, is too harsh.