Dining Out: Gourmet Pizza Company

Gourmet Pizza Company in Tampa, Florida. Pictured is "The Cheeseless Vegan" add vegan cheese.  Crispy crust with tomatoes, onions, mushrooms, garlic, red cabbage, and spinach. 

For the veggie lover, this is a great pizza! Me, I'm more of a simpleton when it comes to pizza - vegan cheese, green peppers, and pineapple; or just cheese.  Overall not bad. Excited to see more pizza places adopting vegan cheeses.

Eating Out: EVOS (Tampa, FL)

I know it's been a while, but I'm back!

This place seemed so promising. We were headed to Chili's and saw this in the parking lot.

This idea here is great: healthy fast food. Vegan and Vegetarian options, green business. I ordered the EVOS Original ChampionBurger - vegan style with airbaked fries and Mango Guava FruitShake for $8.49.

EVOS Original ChampionBurger - vegan style with airbaked fries and Mango Guava FruitShake for $8.49.

First of all, EVERYTHING was cold. Fries were cold, the veggie burger tasted like a microwaved Boca Burger that had sitting out for a while. The shake was very sub par (but nothing will ever compare to my Pulp). The best thing about this place was the ketchup. They had regular, garlic, mesquite, and cayenne firewalker styles and all were very good. If only they were paired with warm food!

Verdict: As is 2/10. With warmer food and cheaper prices, they could've had a 6 or 7.

Edit: Photo added (for some reason Blogger Droid did not post it).  After leaving, I did notice we were in very close to closing time, which may explain the cold/old food, however they could have warmed up what they already had.  I will give them another shot to impress me in the future.

Eating Out: Grass Root Organic Restaurant

Grass Root Organic Restaurant 

Thursday is Eric's & my "date night" and I have been wanting to check out this entirely vegan restaurant since before we moved to Florida.  Lucky for us, we bought the $10 for $20 Half Off Deals so it was a win-win!

Eric & his special "Immune Boost Water" ($1)

Water with added essential oils that smelled of ginger and did not separate from the water very well.  Not a bad price for a drink, but I'd stick with the regular water next time.  5/10

Eric got the "Everybody Loves Ramen" without the "hamm" ($9.50)

Besides the ramen noodles and broth, it was loaded with veggies.  It had a little bit of a spice to it, but did not linger.  Eric loved it and gives it an 8 out of 10 (8/10).  Although tasty, $9 ramen is still just ramen.  

Rating: 6/10.

I ate the special of the day: Tacos ($13)

These aren't your normal "tacos" as they were loaded with black bean hummus, squash, sheez (vegan cheese), lettuce, tomato, rice (and I'm sure there are some other things I am forgetting) all on a corn tortilla.  The tortilla wasn't my favorite, but I loved all the ingredients that made up this spicy meal.  Rating: 8.5/10 

Verdict:  Overall the restaurant was a great place to eat.  I loved the atmosphere of the restaurant and for eating dinner at 5:30pm on a Thursday, we were the only people there.  Menu items are a little pricey compared to your everyday restaurants, but not bad for a local, organic, vegan eatery.  I will definitely be going back.

Rating: 9.5/10