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Weekly platter from Wednesday, November 28, 2018 – All that is vegetarian, second part
Good Stock Restaurant
11409-40 Ave. (Petrolia Plaza)
587-499-8793
Goodstockrestaurant.com
11h to 20h (closed on Tuesday)
No delivery service indicated
Food: 3.5 of 5 Suns
Atmosphere: 4.5 out of 5 Suns
Service: 4.5 of 5 Suns
Dinner for two, excluding taxes and beverages, $ 25 basic; charged $ 40.
Green mustache
11416 Jasper Ave.
780-540-0026
greenmoustache.com
11h to 20h (Saturday + Sunday from 10h to 18h)
No delivery service indicated
Food: 2.5 of 5 suns
Atmosphere: 3.5 out of 5 Suns
Service: 3.5 of 5 Suns
Dinner for two, base $ 20; charged, $ 30
By GRAHAM HICKS
As noted in this article last week, "herbal" restaurants are the latest restaurant trend in Edmonton. This is the second in a three part series, exploring some of these recently opened herbal restaurants.
I am not judgmental about the nutritional / health value – although it is hard not to roll your eyes in front of preparations called "clarity, liveliness, abundance and radiance". These reviews are based on taste, presentation, service and atmosphere.
Congratulations to Good Stock Restaurant, a beautiful community-centered gathering place for the west-central part of the city.
Good stock is a 21st The Century Mom 'n' Pop restaurant has a very modern atmosphere and design (TV screens, advance ordering apps, smart boards, freshly refurbished and very clean), but the operation is also interested in serving the community to make a living.
Yes, everything is herbal, and the family – chef Michelle, her brother Alexander, parents Brian and Debbie – praised the (debatable) virtues of a meatless and dairy-free lifestyle.
But that was not thrown in anyone's throat. The sufficiency of so many vegan restaurants is sorely lacking. It turns out that everything – bowls, rolls, sandwiches, pasta – is herbal and that everything is made from scratch in the modern kitchen.
The Alfredini linguini pulled their cream of cashew milk and what looked like a touch of coconut. The organic pasta was large and slimy. More flavor came from a touch of coconut, garlic and lemon. It worked well
Caesar "buffalo" packaging – buffalo being a vegetarian pbadword for a certain spicy style – was not bad, although for this meat eater, shredded chickpea can not compete with the taste of pork or seasoned chicken. The package itself was heavy and rubbery.
Grated chickpeas garnish beef Good Stock's Buffalo, here with broccoli and coconut soup.
The mashed broccoli with coconut milk soup was good, not great, the bratch a bit skinny, asking for a drop of something, no matter what, to replace the sour cream.
As a vegetarian / vegan restaurant, Good Stock's food is good but not excellent. It is the spirit of the place that makes the attraction. Good Stock and the recently opened No Frills grocery store revitalize the ruined Petrolia Plaza and its 40th Avenue neighborhood (just south of Whitemud, 111 to 119 streets).
During our stay, other local organic / vegetarian food manufacturers were asked to distribute samples of their products. One of the walls is lined with vegan food products, often made locally. A brand of fermented dried pasta suggests that the absence of fermentation, and not of gluten, is at the root of what is considered a health problem caused by gluten. It does not matter.
I wish I could be as enthusiastic about Green Mustache, but West Jasper Avenue is little more than a disguised / chopped health bar (this / chopped) with a small selection of standard vegetarian / vegan dishes – Buddha bowls, wraps , raw thai pad, shots of this smoothie.
Green Mustache's Kitchari rice and Superfood salad were colorful but tasteless.
Everything is contained in the implicit messages "Is not vegetarian food wonderful?" Or "are we not so healthy!"
We shared a Kitchari bowl – rice, mung dal and vegetables in "Ayurvedic" spices – and a "Superfood" salad. The bowl was as bland as the pablum, the dazzling salad, just raw cabbage, raw cabbage, cucumber and cherry tomatoes.
Green Mustache (sixth or seventh franchise of a BC company) can be a clientele focused on a diet without meat or dairy products rather than on taste. Omnivorous, you will get bored.
The burger A & W Beyond Meat.
Finally, A & W's "Beyond Meat" burger – it looks like a hamburger, tastes like a hamburger, but alas, smart TV ads are not quite right. There is always a hint of acidity that, to this day, distinguishes herbal spun protein from real minced meat.
Next Week: Vegetarianism Becomes Gourmet – The New Kanu Cafe at Jasper and 108 Street.
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