eating vegan in the roads, it's a nice choice
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if a residential stretch in The Roads, tofu and sprout sandwiched between the expressway and a park, isn't where you'd think to look for a vegan lunch spot- look again, because there lies
. On a midweek afternoon every seat at Choices was packed including the window counter seats and the staff was busy at work pressing fresh vegetable juice (for the safer choice: The Sex-A-Peel apple, cucumber, beet and ginger, for the juicer: it gets real funky, like, sweet potato juice funky), grilling lentil burgers and wrapping wraps stuffed with ingredients like black bean quinoa, soy chorizo, and daiya cheese.
This is no fast food joint. You'll wait for your food and watch as it's made from scratch in the open kitchen. If you show up too hungry to hold out (like I was) have dessert from one of the storefront fridges first.
Choices isn't the vegan cafe to go to if you're not looking to really eat vegan. It's a Whole Foods, crunch-frou-frou granola kind of place if that makes sense (ie: quinoa, walnut pate, ezekiel buns and sprouted crust pizzas) and it will cost you just about twice as much as other local staple The Last Carrot, but the ambiance is chic, the portions large, and everything, quite obviously fresh and organic. Strike up a conversation with the hemp-based clothing designer nestled tightly in the bench next to yours and pick up a flyer for a healing masseuse on the way out the door. Or not, it's your choice, right there in The Roads.
