The restaurant also prefers not to use more processed vegan foods, such as the popular Beyond Meat. Many menu items use mushrooms, such as “crab” cakes made with lion’s mane or shiitake “escargots,” with the restaurant working with the Palmetto mushroom farm Petrichor.
Other initial menu offerings include a saffron risotto-stuffed tomato, miso-glazed eggplant and almond ricotta-spinach ravioli. It also features a variety of small plates, soups, salads and desserts, including housemade sorbet.
The restaurant has a beer and wine license and serves a selection of both, including a few beers on draft. It also offers a variety of mocktails, working with the company Ritual Zero Proof, among other nonalcoholic drink options like hibiscus lemonade, kombucha, coffee and tea.
“All the ingredients we source, we make sure that they really are vegan and healthy, and that is our main focus,” Fraederich said. “But we don’t want to do just an iceberg salad. We want to make delicious food. We just do not use any animal products at all.”
The restaurant also prefers not to use more processed vegan foods, such as the popular Beyond Meat. Many menu items use mushrooms, such as “crab” cakes made with lion’s mane or shiitake “escargots,” with the restaurant working with the Palmetto mushroom farm Petrichor.
Other initial menu offerings include a saffron risotto-stuffed tomato, miso-glazed eggplant and almond ricotta-spinach ravioli. It also features a variety of small plates, soups, salads and desserts, including housemade sorbet.