02/23/09

One of the Best Restaurants in Sac!

by karisa11

I love Andy Nguyen's! I've been there several times, and it's become one of my top choices to bring people from out of town. Its a truly unique dining experience with a totally vegetarian menu, but even the devoted carnivores that I've taken have liked it. The pverall style is fresh and the way the flavors are mixed is soooo yummy. Try the wraps (served with fresh herbs and the tastiest sauces ever)--they are all good and I think I've tried them all. My favorite is the wraps that you roll yourself at the table. They get everyone into the act in a fun way and are delicious.

• Pros: Delicious, unique food with many healthy choices
• Cons: Parking

09/02/08

Amazing vegetarian food

by mekishiko

1st off-This place is different from all of the other Andy Nguyen's establishments. This is an All vegetarian restaurant (you can request Vegan) that has creative and flavorful dishes. The price is a little steep, but not over priced. The atmosphere is great, the service is decent, but the real star of the show is the food. I recommend the "4 Noble truth's dish" and my personal favorite the "Pure Heart Lemon grass fish." There are a couple items on the menu that aren't very flavorful, not to say that they are by any means bad, they just don't have the amazing robust flavors that the rest of the menu possesses. (EG: Fried rice, or the pineapple fish dish) Personally I stick to brown rice and pile the other goodies on top of it. Overall you can not find better quality vegetarian food in the Sacramento area.

• Pros: Taste, Freshness, Quality, Ambiance, Vegetarian
• Cons: Price, Parking

07/14/08

Despite the reviews we read - it was terrible!!

by Degas77

My wife and I are vegan, and always love finding a new (to us) place that appears so vegetarian friendly. After mentioning Andy Nguyen's to me many times as a highly recommended place, we took the drive to Sacramento. We had high hopes for this place based on the reviews we had read online (happycow[dot]org is good for us veg*ans). I didn't see anything on the menu that really grabbed me, but we placed our order figuring it would be good no matter what we got. First came the appetizer sampler we decided to try despite being $14. I couldn't stomach the salad at all, the mock ribs tasted like I would imagine canned dogfood on an old dry sponge might, the spring rolls were edible, though far from actually being any good. I tried to hide my lack of enjoyment as a courtesy to my wife, but it was clear the feeling was mutual. The one plus was that the portions were so small that it didn't seem like we were wasting food when we left it on the plate. At that point I was dreading the entrees. We ordered a coconut milk vegetable dish that was mostly just mushrooms and mint leaves. I like mint, and picked through the oily funky mushrooms and ate the leaves. We also got veggie fried rice. I've had bland fried rice, I've had over salted fried rice. . .this was just BAD fried rice. Oily, sour, icky, and un-edible like the previous dishes had been.

My wife had ordered a mock salmon fillet, she used to like salmon 20 years ago. I don't know if a person who eats fish would like it, but wow was that bad - gag reflex inducing bad! The teriyaki sauce and veggies that came with it was good enough though, so between that and some mint leaves we did our best to pretend we'd had dinner.

55 bucks later we had food in take home boxes that the dog wouldn't even eat.

Needless to say, we won't be back. I hate to say something negative about a veg*n place - but there are so many great choices around that don't give vegan dining a bad rap - go elsewhere!

Brett and Christina,

Davis

• Pros: Industrial strength AC reminiscent of a meat locker.
• Cons: Terrible food, lousy service, high prices, oh and FREEZING cold - even for two always hot people.