Guest guest Posted August 23, 2002 Report Share Posted August 23, 2002 I went for an after-work urban hike along Haight Street with the goal of ending up at the Reggae Runnin's restaurant on Divisadero. Well, I found the place, but I'd hardly call it a restaurant. The menu calls it a Vegetarian African & Caribbean Kitchen, and that's a pretty accurate description. There's a tiny one-person kitchen and three tables. Behind the kitchen is a store selling African jewlery, clothes and other items. The lady who runs the kitchen also acted as waitress and would spend her spare moments knitting. The menu lists about ten entrees and they all come with a salad. They also have tofu burgers, vegan sausage, sambusas and assorted sandwiches and desserts. I'm not sure if everything on the menu was vegan, but I suspect that most everything was. Next time I go there I'll remember to ask. Most of the desserts were labelled as vegan. They have vegan carrot cake. Mmmm. Gotta try that next time. Anyway, I ordered the special - plaintain stew plus a sambusa and a smoothie. The stew came in a big bowl made out of a gourd with the salad and sambusas layered on top. The cook/waitress also brought out a jar of home-made hot sauce and boy was it hot! I ordered another sambusa, and after smothering it with the stuff my mouth was tingling for quite a while. I loved it, but I'd recommend you only take a little or stay away if you don't like your food to have an afterburn. The stew was subtle, not spicy, but still very tasty. The sambusas were fried, a litle greasy, but nice and crispy. They serve food from 11-7 every day except Sunday. They occasionally run out of stuff (I ate the last two sambusas), but that was close to closing time. There's always a daily special, but it's not always off the regular menu. The cook said that she'd have something Ethiopian as the special this weekend. I'll definitely be going back in the near future. Either on another Thursday after-work urban hike or on a weekend before bar-hopping on Haight. Oh yeah, the stew with salad was $6.95 as are most of the entrees. The sambusas were $2.25 each, and the smoothie was $3.25. The most expensive thing on the menu is $8.25. -Rob Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 23, 2002 Report Share Posted August 23, 2002 If they serve ackee, then I will absolutely go. Any place that doesn¹t serve ackee is not genuine in my book. On 8/22/02 9:06 PM, " borcic " <borcic wrote: > I went for an after-work urban hike along Haight Street with the goal > of ending up at the Reggae Runnin's restaurant on Divisadero. Well, I > found the place, but I'd hardly call it a restaurant. The menu calls > it a Vegetarian African & Caribbean Kitchen, and that's a pretty > accurate description. There's a tiny one-person kitchen and three > tables. Behind the kitchen is a store selling African jewlery, clothes > and other items. The lady who runs the kitchen also acted as waitress > and would spend her spare moments knitting. > > The menu lists about ten entrees and they all come with a salad. They > also have tofu burgers, vegan sausage, sambusas and assorted > sandwiches and desserts. I'm not sure if everything on the menu was > vegan, but I suspect that most everything was. Next time I go there > I'll remember to ask. Most of the desserts were labelled as vegan. > They have vegan carrot cake. Mmmm. Gotta try that next time. > > Anyway, I ordered the special - plaintain stew plus a sambusa and a > smoothie. The stew came in a big bowl made out of a gourd with the > salad and sambusas layered on top. The cook/waitress also brought out > a jar of home-made hot sauce and boy was it hot! I ordered another > sambusa, and after smothering it with the stuff my mouth was tingling > for quite a while. I loved it, but I'd recommend you only take a > little or stay away if you don't like your food to have an afterburn. > The stew was subtle, not spicy, but still very tasty. The sambusas > were fried, a litle greasy, but nice and crispy. > > They serve food from 11-7 every day except Sunday. They occasionally > run out of stuff (I ate the last two sambusas), but that was close to > closing time. There's always a daily special, but it's not always off > the regular menu. The cook said that she'd have something Ethiopian as > the special this weekend. > > I'll definitely be going back in the near future. Either on another > Thursday after-work urban hike or on a weekend before bar-hopping on > Haight. > > Oh yeah, the stew with salad was $6.95 as are most of the entrees. The > sambusas were $2.25 each, and the smoothie was $3.25. The most > expensive thing on the menu is $8.25. > > -Rob > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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