So it may sound like all I do is go out to restaurants, which is not always the case, but it happens to be the truth this week. But today’s restaurant is one I am so excited about and really want to share with everyone. We went to The Table in the Hintonburg area. It’s officially a vegetarian restaurant, but really it’s so much more than that: everything is as fresh, organic and local as possible; almost all the dishes are both vegan and gluten free; there is a wide variety of food that changes everyday and also seasonally; all the ingredients are written on cards and each dish is labelled if it’s vegan or gluten free or both; and it has become my new favourite restaurant! Everyone should try this place, whether you’re vegetarian or not. The food is just sooooo good. It’s buffet-style; you fill up your plate and pay by the weight. Dom and I decided to get different things on our plates so we could pick off each other’s and try a little bit of everything. My favourites were the potato-onion fritter with onion chutney and a tomato-olive tart. Mmmm I can’t get enough of either of those. Dom’s favourites were stir-fried broccoli and ratatouille. But the best part – and this is incredibly special – they had dessert! 
And not just one cardboardy cookie, they had honest to goodness scrumpcious vegan cakes and pies and cookies! (Bonus: most were gluten-free too!) I had an amazing pumpkin pie that was sweetened with maple syrup and Dom had a maple-walnut tart. Both vegan, both gluten-free, both delicious! And everything was pretty inexpensive too, especially for the amount of food we got. We paid about $13 each including dessert, and we came out of there too full to move. I think I was just so happy to have so many options that I filled my plate with everything. I guess it depends mostly on how heavy it is, so fill up your plates with lighter salads and less of the tarts and bean loaves if you’re watching your wallet.
Just to let you all know, the picture of the pumpkin pie isn’t mine – I didn’t have my camera with me when we happened upon The Table. The picture also probably isn’t of a vegan one. But I’m really looking forward to making some yummy vegan pumpkin pie this Thanksgiving!
And not just one cardboardy cookie, they had honest to goodness scrumpcious vegan cakes and pies and cookies! (Bonus: most were gluten-free too!) I had an amazing pumpkin pie that was sweetened with maple syrup and Dom had a maple-walnut tart. Both vegan, both gluten-free, both delicious! And everything was pretty inexpensive too, especially for the amount of food we got. We paid about $13 each including dessert, and we came out of there too full to move. I think I was just so happy to have so many options that I filled my plate with everything. I guess it depends mostly on how heavy it is, so fill up your plates with lighter salads and less of the tarts and bean loaves if you’re watching your wallet.Just to let you all know, the picture of the pumpkin pie isn’t mine – I didn’t have my camera with me when we happened upon The Table. The picture also probably isn’t of a vegan one. But I’m really looking forward to making some yummy vegan pumpkin pie this Thanksgiving!
Ps. Sometimes, a girl needs to relive college days and just eat ramen noodles and vegetable dumplings. Just saying.
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