Liquiteria
Restaurant, Coffee/Tea/Juice
170 2nd Ave
New York, NY 10003
212-358-0300
vegetarian
$$ - average
American
$$ - average
American
vegetarian juice bar and cafe
Liquiteria is a small juice bar and take-out cafe that features an impressive selection of juices and smoothies, in addition to a substantial menu, including sandwiches, wraps, soups, and salad. They also offer breakfast (granola, muffins, bagels), and a large selection of vegan desserts, including cookies, bars, and a number of sweet breads/cakes.
The place is all vegetarian and most items can be made vegan. The staff also lets you swap out non-vegan ingredients like chocolate whey powder or honey for vegan ingredients like peanut butter or agave nectar.
Directions:
4,5,6,L,N,R,W to Union Square and walk east to 2nd ave and south to 11th
- (Mostly) Organic
Added by Cass Danger on Apr 20 (updated Apr 20)
I was initially put off by the number of smoothies that contain unnecesarily non-vegan ingredients like chocolate whey powder and honey, but was happy to see that the friendy staff would sub pretty much anything for the non-vegan ingredients. I've tried both a tropical style smoothie, that was mostly fruit and ice, and a richer ice cream style smoothie that was soy milk, fruit and peanut butter, and both were really good.
I didn't look at ever single dessert item, but noticed that most (if not all) were vegan, which was really nice, considering so many vegetarian places skimp on the vegan desserts.