Everyone who has ever reviewed this place for Yelp has given the place five stars.
I am giving the place five stars.
Do you see a trend here?
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Like an Elephant is an insanely good vegan restaurant.
There are vegan cartoons all over the restaurant.
The print is fine so it takes some examination to see them all and get all the jokes.
The place is very small making this a tough reservation to get.
The menu is even smaller.
Three choices of entree.
Three choices of main course - one of which is always a vegan burger.
Two choices of dessert.
You frankly won't need anything else in this world.
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A staple of Jewish vegetable cooking is a tsimmes.
This is a stewed dish with carrots, apricots and lots of other orange fruits and vegetables.
Like an Elephant turns this concept into a soup.
Carrot veloute with apricots and subtle spices.
Never have I been so in love with a carrot.
Although frankly, the apricots were doing a whole lot of the talking.
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My lovely wife had the mushroom risotto with lemon.
She was head over heels in love.
I had the vegan burger of the day.
The burger was insanely good.
Zucchini has never been put to better use.
But the strange magic of the dish was their alternative to French Fries.
These were plain ordinary potato wedges sauteed in olive oil, and vegan butter
The same "home fries" concept you would get at an Alabama diner.
But when the olive oil is really really good, and the vegan butter is better than butter from a cow ...
And the potatoes have lots and lots and lots of olive oil and vegan butter ...
Now you are looking at pure and unadulterated decadence.
Veggie burger plates are usually just okay.
This was the veggie burger and fries of midnight dreams.
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Desserts were variations on a theme of panna cotta.
It however was not the spartan desserts of good-for-you vegetables-are-for-suffering pious-vegan restaurants.
These were sensuous and pleasant.
But I was like a man who had found true love-making happiness
And was out-like-a-light in a deep post-romantic slumber.
The dessert was there, but I barely remember it
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Magical Burger
Magical Fries
Magical Burger
Magical Fries.
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