"Meat" Akron, OH

We stopped by the vegan/raw cafe - The Web of Life - in Cleveland and were disappointed. The reviews we read are all true...well, only because the customer we talked to at The Web of Life said the place was not what it used to be. So we left... but not without a vegan soft serve cone. It was the best vegan soft serve we've ever had.

We headed straight for Vegiterranean vegan-kosher restaurant in Akron, OH which just opened 6 months ago. These pictures are from there. At $23 a dish, the food was delicious. And the tofu dessert was amazing. I had Gardien Chicken with tuscan bean mashed potatoes. Kurt had the Gardien Steak special. Kurt has never had steak before in his life... until today! Is your jaw dropped because you read "Kurt ate steak" or because you think nothing vegan can imitate steak?

We love to sample each other's dishes and being from a state where steak restaurants have their own zip code (okay, slight exaggeration), plus growing up in a meat-eating home, I took a bite of his steak and was certain it was the real thing. The first several chews were reminiscent of steak prepared over the charcoal grill on a July 4th weekend at my aunt and uncle's backyard cookout... until its texture changed, but only slightly. I tell Kurt, "If you haven't had steak before, you just did."

By the way, Gardien is a trademark for GARden grown protIEN.