Blind Faith Cafe Restaurant Review

525 Dempster St. (Chicago Ave.) Send to Phone

847-328-6875 | Make Restaurant Reservations | Menu

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$$$$$

When it comes to veggie-friendly dining, this place takes the tofu (no-cheese) cake.

Blind Faith Cafe Restaurant is one of our 2012 | Top 10 Chicago Vegetarian Restaurants |

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Open

Lunch Tues.-Fri., Dinner nightly, Brunch Sat.-Sun.

Features

Heart-healthy dishes
Kid-friendly
Reservations suggested
Casual

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Dining room at Blind Faith Cafe, Evanston, IL

Blind Faith---with its rarely disappointing meals and awesome attitude---is a vegetarian's Eden. The adjacent bakery, casual dining room and self-serve section mean there's really something for everybody. Dishes are prepared with fresh, organic ingredients, and the majority are appealing, whether you’re a meat-eater or not. Risotto cakes atop winter vegetable ragoût? Sure. Huevos rancheros for breakfast as well as poblano crêpes, shiitake pot stickers and Thai peanut noodles? Check. A selection of smoothies and shakes only further seals the deal.

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All good things must come to an end... by nicoleepost on 06/27/2010

Our days of traveling from St. Louis to Chicago for the delightful and inspiring tastes of Blind Faith have come to a crashing halt. We made it a top priority to go the first night of our visit this time around, but our experience has left us with such a bad taste in our mouths (pun intended) that we will not be returning. I’m not sure if the new management has not succeeded or if there is a new (inexperienced) chef, but it is NOT the same Blind Faith we have always loved. We started with appetizers and decided on the risotto cake with vegetable ragout. By definition, “Ragoût is a thick, hearty stew of French origin.” This “ragout” we were served was all broth and could have been served as a soup (except for the obvious flavor flaws). The only vegetables to speak of were some cabbage, capers, and olives. It was not good and I chose not to eat my half. The Miso was so-so. Moving on to dinner, there were no specials to speak of, so we ordered Kung Pao and were elated to discover that it was as wonderful as we had hoped. They do have a fantastic meat substitute (Gardein) and it was perfectly spiced. Maybe the chef trained in Asian cooking, as ¾ of the menu was of that ethnicity (not the usual diversity of choices). We had our hopes up for the Summer Sagamite, which consisted of wild mushrooms, new potatoes, fava beans, parsnips, and dandelion greens. They must have been out of wild mushrooms, as they served us plain-Jane white ones. The vegetables this time were also not what was promised on the menu: no fava beans, no parsnips, and they had substituted Swiss chard for dandelion greens (acceptable when accompanied by all the other correct ingredients). The potatoes were either overdone or underdone, which happens when you chop them in pieces as small as peas and as big as golf balls. I didn’t taste a hint of the rhubarb dressing that was to top this all off. It was an incredible and practically inedible catastrophe. All in all, Blind Faith is no longer worth the time or money. It is with sadness that my husband and I say goodbye to what was once our favorite and most craved vegetarian restaurant.

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