Meat! It’s juicy and good! Meat! It’s yummy and thick! Meat! It’s meaty!
But that not withstanding, it is possible for vegetarian food to be great. No really! Otherwise, the entire southern half of India would starve. Alright, poor taste there, but seriously, it exists, and The Vegetable Garden in White Flint proves it. It’s vegan and it’s good
Not only is the menu at this place longer than a really really long line of sausages…all lined up, but the people are so unbelievably friendly that you’ll wish you were related. For appetizers I tried the cilantro roll, a mix of tofu, black mushrooms, and, yes, cilantro, and ex-fudder snh got the crispy black mushrooms. Imagine the crunchiest, sweetest General Tso’s you’ve ever had, but with musky strips of fungus instead of gooey poultry parts.
For mains, there was tofu disguised as duck with crunchy greens, and a hot-pot of silky eggplant with chunks of ginger and basel. I tried the smooth sweet potato pie for desert, snh had rhubarb. Both were perfect, but admittedly it’s a lot easier to make those vegan than the chocolate mousse pie (made with soft tofu).
I practically rolled out of here confident that my culinary karma was at least momentarily safe. The Vegetable Garden advertises as vegetarian, vegan, organic, and macrobiotic. So if macrobiot is on your diet, this is the place for you.
The Vegetable Garden
11618 Rockville Pike
301 468 9301