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V-Spot — Brooklynian

V-Spot

dre*
dre*
edited November -1 in Park Slope
Does anyone know if the V-Spot opened up yet in the Slope and if so if it's any good?
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  • alafairnadia
    alafairnadia
    what in the world is it supposed to be? a lesbian club? a vegan restaurant?
  • dre*
    dre*
    Just a vegan & vegetarian restaurant...guess that means you haven't been yet, huh?!
  • stacey
    stacey
    alafairnadia wrote: a lesbian club?
    Wouldn't that be G-Spot then :)
  • alafairnadia
    alafairnadia
    stacey wrote: [quote=alafairnadia] a lesbian club?
    Wouldn't that be G-Spot then :)

    er ... starts with a v and ends with an a ...

    in any case! :oops: :oops: :oops:
  • terra
    terra

    Subject: Vspot

    VSpot is open already. It's fully vegan and looks like it has some good potential. They are having saturday/sunday brunches prominently featuring scrambled tofu.
  • 8thandprez
    8thandprez
    where's it located?
  • wellhellorico
    wellhellorico

    Subject: V- spot

    is 8th and Pres asking about the location of the V-spot or the G-spot?

    I'm confused! :lol::lol:
  • 8thandprez
    8thandprez
    well, i'm gay, so i guess it couldn't hurt to find out both locations. :lol: :oops:
  • golimae
    golimae

    Subject: V-spot

    well, I'm not sure where the V-spot is, and just know that I'll be making a lot of funny G-spot jokes in my head. Let's just say that finding the G-spot is one of the best treasure hunts I've participated in :D
  • blackoyster
    blackoyster
    V Spot is at 156 5th Ave. Between Douglass & Degraw.
    If you are looking for the G-spot, check out the canoe.
    :roll:
  • anonymous
    anonymous
    Finally got to check out the V Spot (I was beginning to think that it didn't exist!). I was impressed by the yam fries which were crisp and delicious. But what impressed me most was the live sex show they put on. It included double entry and was amazing. God has spoken.
  • kosherdave
    kosherdave
    God wrote: Finally got to check out the V Spot (I was beginning to think that it didn't exist!).
    You're mistaken. It's the g-spot that doesn't exist. Just another urban legand, like the tooth fairy, jesus and good service at soda.
  • stuart
    stuart

    Subject: Don't bother

    I hate to be totally negative about a new vegan restaurant in the neighborhood because that is exactly the kind of thing I want opening around here (fewer nail salons and basketball arenas, pls), BUT Christ this restaurant sucked.

    My friends and I went for a late afternoon/early evening snack the other day because we had a late dinner planned. We ordered chips and guac, fried chicken, a chicken chop sandwich, a house salad, and sweet potato fries.

    The chips were stale and the guacamole was brown and watery. The fries were passable. The "fried chicken" was actually chicken nuggets, which were certainly not any better than Quorn brand and barely better than Morningstar. The sandwich looked passable, but my friend who ordered it will eat anything so I don't exactly believe that it wasn't terrible. The real clincher was the "salad". It was brown-edged iceberg lettuce, a few dried-up cucumber slices, and maybe a quarter-inch slice of bell pepper and few shreds of carrot. You'd think a vegan restaurant would not serve a salad that would shame Arby's. Oh yeah...the dressing? They brought out two bottles of Nasoya salad dressing, complete with the pricetags still on them from the supermarket up the avenue. At least I got to choose, right?

    I guess they just opened and all, so I'll give them some time to clean up their act, but I was deeply disappointed, especially considering their fancy-ass website (if I e-mail them a picture of fresh mesclun greens, will they understand the difference?). Any other reports?
  • terra
    terra

    Subject: Vspot

    We have been going there pretty regularly, and found it quite satisfying (except for awkward service, but they have gradually been getting better about that too). Here's what we think is worth trying and is very good:

    Pasta -- especially penne with vodka sauce. They cook the sauces on premises and everything so far has been very fresh and tasty.
    Eggplant Parm Hero (meatball hero less so, but still good) -- excellent imitation cheese (which if you are a long-term vegan, you can appreciate)
    Lasagna
    Breakfast burritos
    Chorizo with rice and beans

    Not as good:
    tofu wrap -- a little too dry
    scrambled tofu with bacon - also a little too dry for our taste
    steak
    chicken hero
    fries - uneven, we got some that were crispy and excellent, and some that were soggy.

    Somehow we got a sense that salad and fresh vegan foods that are difficult to get right are not (possibly, yet) the strength of VSpot. Just like any restaurant, VSpot has its weak side. (If you go to Vegetarian Paradise 2 in the West Village for the first time and order their crabcake you may never want to go back and will likely miss on some of the best vegan soul food.)

    More importantly, we found that the owner is responsive to comments and is eager to find out what works and what doesn't. We, on our side, are happy to have a fully vegan restaurant in the neighborhood (eating at Vegetarian Palate every other day becomes quite old after a while).

    Elena & Bill
    (spoiled by the East Village)
  • quijibo
    quijibo
    i went in a week ago for a veggie wrap and a cheeseburger with bacon

    the veggie wrap was good. the cheeseburger was a little less than edible
    the bun was worse than high school cafeteria buns

    i wish them the best of luck. we need a vegan restaurant in the neighborhood

    and i will give them their growing pains. the owner is real nice and he aims to please. so i'm sure our constructive comments are welcome

    give it time. and give them feedback.
  • alafairnadia
    alafairnadia
    this may sound obnoxious, but why would a vegan want a faux cheeseburger w/ bacon? that just sounds like a really bad idea.
    I've had the faux fried chicken at veg. paradise 2 in the village and while it's an interesting exercise in texture and flavor, it is NOT fried chicken. my vegan friends always say "it's just like fried chicken!" and I generally plead "crown, yo" and chew my soy bits. I just don't get it.
  • anonymous
    anonymous

    Subject: vegan?

    What kind of vegan restaurant server cheeseburger, bacon, fried chicken? What is wrong with this picture?
  • quijibo
    quijibo
    i agree. it's cheesy to eat a fake cheese burger with fake meat and cheese
    and crispy soy thing

    but it's like their thing. they've got a vegan version of every popular diner staple

    i just had to try it. the wrap is generally good if not for having too much oil.
    next time, i'll ask for less oil
    and better bread

    ewwwwww. that bread :)
  • terra
    terra

    Subject: Re: vegan?

    daisy wrote: What kind of vegan restaurant server cheeseburger, bacon, fried chicken? What is wrong with this picture?
    Well, I have been a vegan for ten years for almost entirely ethical reasons. But I was raised on steak and love the taste of meat, cheese, heavy cream and butter. I love vegan restaurants that can do a good imitation (very few can, although many try).

    Vegan food sometimes is confused with health-oriented or bland. It doesn't have to be; all that is required of vegan-friendly food is to be as far removed from exploitation of nonhuman animals as possible. There are excellent health-oriented vegan restaurants and there are great vegan "junk" food places. Obviously, vegan junk food caters mostly to people who choose this lifestyle for other than health reasons. (By the way, oily or fatty does not necessarily mean nonhealthy, because plant oils, even saturated, like coconut oil, are far healthier than those derived from animal origins.)
  • alafairnadia
    alafairnadia
    I guess (as a carnivore), the vegan dishes I do love are delicious because they aren't meat - a great veggie Korean tofu stew or a nice baked tofu are delish. perfectly cooked veggies - yum. lentils, veggie garbanzos and rice, etc - love it all. it's the faux meat I just don't get.
    I can understand loving the texture, taste and feel of meat ... I eat meat. I just can't understand giving up meat and then ... wanting fake meat. but that's me. more power to vegans if there are feasible options.

    of course, I have aunts in Cuba who make fake steak using plantain skins. not at all delish, poor things. i hope the Cuban deals with South American countries can, at least, get them some soy beans. that'll definitely help in the quality of the faux meat available.
  • terra
    terra
    alafairnadia wrote: I guess (as a carnivore), the vegan dishes I do love are delicious because they aren't meat - a great veggie Korean tofu stew or a nice baked tofu are delish. perfectly cooked veggies - yum. lentils, veggie garbanzos and rice, etc - love it all. it's the faux meat I just don't get.
    I can understand loving the texture, taste and feel of meat ... I eat meat. I just can't understand giving up meat and then ... wanting fake meat. but that's me. more power to vegans if there are feasible options.

    of course, I have aunts in Cuba who make fake steak using plantain skins. not at all delish, poor things. i hope the Cuban deals with South American countries can, at least, get them some soy beans. that'll definitely help in the quality of the faux meat available.
    Imagine that you could never, ever get the "real" meat. Would you go to various restaurants in eternal hope of finding something that comes as close as possible to what you remember it tasted like?

    For vegans, eating meat is just not an option (or rather an option on the same level as cannibalism--would do it to survive, but not otherwise). But veganism is not about asceticism or self-deprivation. I get the best options available to satisfy the culinary tastes that I acquired as a child and young adult. I still love the taste of meat, but would never eat the real thing just because I like it.

    My husband on the other hand was raised a vegetarian, and since he has never tasted meat, his quest is not the perfect fake steak, but a perfect fake "cheese" pizza. He wants to reclaim the memories of his own childhood comfort foods that he misses. But again, he would never eat the real thing for ethical reasons.

    Elena
  • alafairnadia
    alafairnadia
    huh. interesting. I'll never get it, but I can sorta see what you're saying. but, I do have to say, the fake stuff has nothing on the real thing. sorry!
  • anonymous
    anonymous

    Subject: v spot

    hi-

    the vspot is such a disappointment! i've been vegan for about 13 years & i've been to good & bad veggie restaurants- this one takes the cake for bad!

    i've been a few times & thought that they were just working out the kinks- but that's not the case anymore. the food is pathetic- it's mostly all pre-packaged fake meats & sauces. it's food that i would put together in my kitchen to make a *quick* meal. they use tofutti sour cream, naysoya dressing out of the bottle, chicken nuggets, fake cheese that they can't even bother to grate over the chicken parm...i could go on, but it's useless. i'm going to try breakfast there this wknd, but i'm afraid i'm going to end up with tofu scramble from a box mix!

    when i go out to dinner, i want homemade goodness- not something that i can whip up in my own kitchen in a second. bleh.

    the service is terrible too.

    i so wanted this spot to be good- the slope needs a good veg restaurant- but this one seems doomed to fail. i won't be going back for dinners, that's for sure. it's a shame too- i go out to dinner all the time & they lost my business in just a few trips.

    they need a new chef- not some dude that can only cook pre-packaged crap. he's giving vegan food more of a bad name than it already has!

    on a good note- the outdoor patio is very nice.

    thanks for letting me vent-
    disgruntled park slope vegan
  • laura
    laura
    I was raised on Midwestern/Polish food, very meat-heavy. I don't eat meat (or chicken) now, but I do occasionally crave meat, usually sausage, which I always loved. So I buy Morningstar Farms and Boca veggie sausages. It's mostly about the seasonings. And I admit I still love the smell of bacon. And sometimes I miss the childhood comfort of meatloaf and mashed potatoes ... I was hoping V-Spot might do a decent meatloaf.
  • isa
    isa
    Count me in with the disappointed. Most items are the same store bought vegan stunt meat that you buy in the supermarket. The sausage is Gimme Lean (and overly fried), I think the scrambled tofu is even from a mix, the salsa was Newman's Own. And they didn't even do a good job of cooking it. The breakfast burrito was two little tortillas rolled into one, they didn't even bother to steam it. So nasty. The desert (Vegan Treats) was even stale and tasted like fridge. It's a shame because I would eat at a vegan restaurant several times a week if it were good and I am doubly pissed because if I had the money I would open one that isn't an embarassment to vegans. I wonder if the owner has ever been to a good one like Candle or even Kates? If he is reading this I hope he takes these things to heart, I told the server during my last and final visit what I thought so maybe it was passed on.

    Across the street you can go to Bogota and get a really tasty vegan plate in an awesome atmosphere with fast, friendly and knowledgable service.
  • carnivore
    carnivore
    Isa wrote: Count me in with the disappointed. Most items are the same store bought vegan stunt meat that you buy in the supermarket. The sausage is Gimme Lean (and overly fried), I think the scrambled tofu is even from a mix, the salsa was Newman's Own. And they didn't even do a good job of cooking it. The breakfast burrito was two little tortillas rolled into one, they didn't even bother to steam it. So nasty. The desert (Vegan Treats) was even stale and tasted like fridge. It's a shame because I would eat at a vegan restaurant several times a week if it were good and I am doubly pissed because if I had the money I would open one that isn't an embarassment to vegans. I wonder if the owner has ever been to a good one like Candle or even Kates? If he is reading this I hope he takes these things to heart, I told the server during my last and final visit what I thought so maybe it was passed on.

    Across the street you can go to Bogota and get a really tasty vegan plate in an awesome atmosphere with fast, friendly and knowledgable service.
    Maybe if the owner isn't the same person as the chef, s/he could be convinced to hire you as the new executive chef. :D
  • j0518
    j0518
    i've been there twice. not the best place on earth, but good enough if its the only option in the neighborhood. desserts were good. chicken parm was good. veggie burgers were very thin and just not enough.

    what i do love is their unique quasi-latin take on things. having tostones, yuca, or maduros with my vegan meal makes me very happy.

    i wish them luck. owner seems like a really nice guy.
  • escap
    escap
    terra wrote: For vegans, eating meat is just not an option (or rather an option on the same level as cannibalism--would do it to survive, but not otherwise). But veganism is not about asceticism or self-deprivation. I get the best options available to satisfy the culinary tastes that I acquired as a child and young adult. I still love the taste of meat, but would never eat the real thing just because I like it.

    My husband on the other hand was raised a vegetarian, and since he has never tasted meat, his quest is not the perfect fake steak, but a perfect fake "cheese" pizza. He wants to reclaim the memories of his own childhood comfort foods that he misses. But again, he would never eat the real thing for ethical reasons.

    Elena
    I hear you. Similarly, I can't eat vegetables but I miss broccoli like you wouldn't believe, so I fashion my hamburgers into broccoli, carrots and other vegetable shapes and then eat them that way. It's not like the real thing, but it's the best that I can do.
  • carnivore
    carnivore
    escap wrote: I hear you. Similarly, I can't eat vegetables but I miss broccoli like you wouldn't believe, so I fashion my hamburgers into broccoli, carrots and other vegetable shapes and then eat them that way. It's not like the real thing, but it's the best that I can do.
    Hah! :lol:
  • sweet tea
    sweet tea
    escap wrote:

    I hear you. Similarly, I can't eat vegetables but I miss broccoli like you wouldn't believe, so I fashion my hamburgers into broccoli, carrots and other vegetable shapes and then eat them that way. It's not like the real thing, but it's the best that I can do.
    i used to have above my desk a wrapper from a frozen burrito. it advertised its contents as:

    "Veggie" Ham & Cheese

    i can only imagine that this burrito was created especially for you, escap.
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