Vegetable Garden - Silver Spring

Literally waiting 30 minutes for the server to great us. They hung up the phone on you when you call. The food is bland and you have to pay extra money for mayonnaise! I miss the old vegetable garden. This place is terrible. Don’t bother coming!!!!!

Vegan starts a restaurant with a 5 star rating and they then have to prove it.They did. I don’t know real Chinese food except the style my son left China with. But the food was great. Cumin fries were ordered on a whim and were great. Gen tsao chicken was very good and minimally sweet. My wife’s fried tofu dish was a bit salty for my taste. Avocado sushi a work of art.Waitress was excellent and the place clean.This has become a family regular. Vegetarian options: Vegan!!

Great place for vegetarian and vegan food. I have taken many omnivores there and everyone has had wonderful food. Vegetarian options: Menu is all vegan, but you would never miss the non vegan items

The restaurant was earlier (in late 90s and early 2000s) located on Rockvile pike very close to White Flint metro. This was our go to place. The food was fantastic and their key lime pie was to die for! Then they lost their lease (the building was later demolished to make way for the modern high rises in what is now called North Bethesda). The restaurant disappeared for a while. Their chef was hired by Yuan Fu and being the only faux meat vegetarian restaurant, Yuan Fu became hugely popular and successful.In the meantime, Vegetable Garden, after a hiatus of several years, reopened in Silver Spring. We went to check it out at the time and were very disappointed with everything- the food, ambience, service etc. So did not go there for several years.Now, on the recommendation of friends, we decided to try the place out again. The place has a very soothing ambience and there are a couple of monitors running interesting pieces about the benefits of vegetarianism (no surprise there).The place was obviously understaffed. There was only one waitress for the entire restaurant and she was doing her best being polite, answering questions about the dishes, taking orders, serving and then cleaning up. So we had to wait a while, both for service and the food. Could not really complain to her because she was doing an outstanding job but really could have had more help for a Friday lunch.The food was mixed. The vegetable roll was excellent. The hot pot tofu was good but very few veggies. The sesame chicken was okay-okay but the potions really small. The tofu curry really bland and unappetizing. So all in all a mixed bag.Still, their menu was several pages long and looks like they are innovative, especially with mushroom, in coming up with faux meat dishes.Definitely with checking out.

The plates had leftover food on it, it smelled like rotten eggs inside the restaurant, and she said a 5$ tip isn’t good enough we need to leave 7$ tip. Like what the hell??Maybe she really needed it I guess but the was she said it was pissy and rude. Should have just left 0$.