Although the salads at Veggie Grill are plenty big for any appetite, the sandwiches are the culinary cornerstones of the restaurant. And easily the best meal between a bun is the Santa Fe crispy chickin’ sandwich. The sandwich takes the restaurant’s presumably patented chillin’ chickin’ and cuts it into a fat patty, then fries it [...]

Believe in the meatless meals of Veggie Grill

PHOTO by RICK POON
Veggie Grill has meat on its mind. It’s a topic that makes for awkward thoughts, no doubt, as the restaurant definitely isn’t dreaming about the usual fantasies of flesh. Instead, the place is far more focused on mulling over the finer points of taste and [...]

Veggie Grill
Veggie Grill’s finest fake meat comes from a proprietary blend. The chillin’ chickin’, says the menu, is the restaurant’s own unique veggie protein, something that the place dares you to taste and believe. And in the time that Veggie Grill has spent across from UC Irvine (nearing two years as we crawl towards the [...]