Green Vegetarian Cuisine
Restaurant, Coffee/Tea/Juice
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$ - inexpensive
American, Eclectic (Varied)
Green is the only 100% vegetarian restaurant in San Antonio, Texas.
"Green is more than just our name. It also stands for the way we do business. What we have done: installed an energy efficient thermal roof barrier to reduce energy consumption, reused an existing circa 1896 structure to help revitalize an area of downtown. green has also reused the majority of its restaurant equipment from refrigerators to booths/tables. green has a recycling dumpster for cardboard, a large bike rack, fair trade organic coffee, free range eggs, uses biodegradable packaging when possible, and will eventually install a cistern to capture rainwater for landscape maintenance. We have free wifi and plenty of places to plug in your power cord."
Just north of downtown, two blocks west of San Pedro Ave.
- Kid-Friendly
- Outdoor Seating
- Wireless (free)
Added by vepaulgi on Feb 10 07 (updated Oct 12 07)
Reviews
This restaurant is excellent!
They are completely vegetarian with ~25% of the menu being vegan (clearly marked on the menu).
The food is awesome... so yummy! Desserts are all vegan; we had the carrot cake and chocolate cake. They have soft-serve vegan ice cream that is too good to describe.
The atmosphere is very nice. Huge, comfy booths. Tall ceilings. Brick walls. Outdoor seating. Very classy.
I cannot recommend this restaurant enough. I would move to San Antonio just so I could eat here!
Everyone try the Sesame Chik'n. It is divine. Especially with sweet potato fries on the side.
I also tried a piece of vegan strawberry cheesecake on my first visit, and I enjoyed every last bit of that too. Needless to say, I cannot wait to go back... In the meantime, everyone go support Green!
I think it is wonderful that San Antonio has an all-vegetarian restaurant (and perhaps, for that reason alone, vegetarians should support it). However, I wasn't terribly impressed with the food at Green.
My buffalo tofu wings were practically inedible (the texture was crispy and wonderful, but the sauce was a combination of extremely sour and extremely spicy - no one at my table was able to eat more than one of the wings, so we ended up throwing most of them out).
The sweet potato gnocci was good, but the tomato sauce that came with it tasted like (and had the consistency of) tomato soup.
The vegan double chocolate cake was the best part of my dinner at Green. It was moist, not overly dense, and the icing was creamy. My (non-vegan) boyfriend thought the icing tasted too much like soy margarine whipped with sugar and cocoa powder, but I liked it.