Green Lotus Vegetarian

This place is amazing! My husband and I try new places all the time and I seriously would eat here every day!
We had the vermicelli noodle with soy beef (recommended by our server) and the spicy basil vegetables. My only complaint was my husband put too much mint on my plate —
Extremely nice server Julie — and I recommend this place to everyone who wants to truly experience amazing flavors.
I can’t wait to try more.

I really wanted to like this place. The yellow curry was good and it came out quickly. I was about three bites in and I saw a huge cockroach run across the floor. Beware!!!

First time here. Played it safe and got pad Thai and spring rolls. The food was great. Really likes the soy shrimp. Didn’t give it five stars for one reason, it could be a bit more tidy and clean. But I will come again and refer it to friends.

OMG. OMG, OMG, OMG!
I’ve now tried 6 dishes here, and everything is amazing. This little restaurant shares a kitchen with a non-​vegan separate little restaurant. I think her husband cooks the non-​vegan and she cooks the vegan items. She is very sweet, and the place has a great vibe.
I will be going back again, and again, and again!
Oh, beware, some of her chairs are a little flimsy-​but she’s SUPER nice about it.

Excellent food, good sized portions for the entrées, friendly and quick service. First time here, and won’t be the last. Definitely excited to try more of this menu.

Went here and it was odd to say the least. It was good enough to go back is my short answer. My long answer is the waiter was… Bad? He was dirty, badly dresses, and his nose wasn’t clean. Kinda puts you off your food when you have to look up at someone’s nose gold. But that was the worst part. The food was lovely, and the little old lady who was there was the cutest. She was so happy that we liked their food and bowed to us when we left. The restaurant itself was small and the atmosphere reminded me of when I lived in Japan, especially the eclectic décor. Like I said, we’ll be back. I just hope they improve the writer’s hygiene by next time.

If you go here, prepare to have it stay at the top of your list for veg friendly restaurants in Phoenix. It’s amazing food and always full. I waited about 8 mins for my to go order and it was perfect. Order the BFF. It’s amazing and Vegan friendly! I really appreciate that they list what is soy free on their menu too! So good!

The green lotus is a comfortable, small family place. It’s simple and definitely healthy.
The rise dish that I ordered was ok. It had vegan beef, shrimp and chicken in it. The vegan shrimp was really gummy and definitely not my type of food. The rest was pretty blend and I had to add a lot of soy sauce to make it taste like something. The waiter told me that its usual with vegan dishes. 3 stars
Then we had yellow and red curry. The red curry was surprisingly better than the yellow one. But the potatoes were not cooked properly. 3 stars
We asked them to replace the potatoes and the waiters brought some additional potatoes that were nothing I have ever seen before, very weird looking ones. We didn’t eat them.
We also had 3 egg rolls as appetizer and they go for $ 6 which I thought is too much for only 3 small egg rolls. 2 stars.
The atmosphere was a little strange because it seemed the restaurant was a home and a restaurant since the family lived there. We saw some people coming in and out that didn’t seem like they were working in the kitchen.
They also let the back door open and there was a security device which beeped every 5 seconds the entire time we were there. That was annoying.
The waitress was very calm and easy to talk to but then was replaced by someone else. Who looked like the cook of the place. 3 stars.
It’s not a place I would go to again. But nonetheless a good experience. A nice family owned place.

We have been trying to expand our repertoire of Vegetarian places with this Valley’s geography, and this expansion brought us to the Green Lotus Vegetarian restaurant.
It is located within a nondescript shopping center approximately a mile west of Old Downtown Mesa.
With the various cuisine types now offering Vegetarian options, we were quite intrigued and excited to partake of Vegetarian Vietnamese food.
When we ordered, we opted to try out typical Vietnamese Cuisine favorites that we were normally familiar with to see if their Vegetarian counterparts would prove just as delectable.
And we were definitely not disappointed!
The Vegetarian egg rolls were fresh and crunchy. The vegetables contained within were quite tasty, and the accompanying sweet and sour sauce just enhanced their inherent flavors.
I had the Vegetable Soup. It was comprised of cabbage, carrots, broccoli, celery. All were quite fresh. For good measure, I also chose to add the Soy Chicken along with it.
Its flavor was fairly close to a typical Phở Bo Tai that one often encounters in a typical Vietnamese restaurant — without the Beef ingredient, of course.
My wife had the Yellow Curry. The coconut cream sauce that it was immersed in was simply amazing. And the vegetables that they came with were also quite fresh and appetizing.
One additional and notable point were the generous portion sizes of the main entrees. They really wanted to make sure that they didn’t skimp on you getting your money’s worth with regarding these dishes.
This place was simply a marvelous discovery for us.
If we hadn’t done our research, and expanded our perspective beyond the typical geographies that we frequent for certain types of foods; we would’ve missed out on this gem located within Mesa!

EXCELLENT PLACE. Just started working around the area and all I can say is THANK GOODNESS! We need more places like this. Vegan (check), healthy (check), affordable (check), awesome service (check), happy bellies (check). I can’t think of one bad thing. My go to dish at all vegan hot spots is the vermicelli with soy beef. Well this place raised the standard so I can only imagine how other items will taste (mouth watering just thinking about my next adventure there). I also had the sweet mango dessert. It was acceptable. A little on the tart side but maybe mangoes were not in season. I guess I have to try it again another time to come to a concrete decision.

Make no mistake. I’m a meat eater.
However, I have lots of friends who are vegetarian/​vegan. When we have a hankering for Vietnamese or Thai food, this is the place to go. The few times I’ve been here, there’s one person who seems to run the front of house. Therefore, be patient. Otherwise, just sit back and enjoy the food.
Note: there are two menus. One is traditional Vietnamese and the other is Haole friendly:) Both are great. I lean toward the soy beef and fish dishes. The shrimp was okay, and I haven’t tried the soy chicken or soy pork (when I do, I’ll update).
Favorite dishes? Basil eggplant with soy beef and the fresh spring rolls with soy fish. So yummy!
If you’re super stubborn and really need meat, just ask them for the meat menu. This place is next to a sister restaurant that serves Vietnamese food — meat and all!

Recipes from home. The new cook is very careful and creative. His plates looks very delicious. The best thing to try is the lotus salad and the bun hue. The bun hue is the spicy noodle vegan variant of the vietnamese spicy noodle soup. If you want something flavorful and yummy, get that!

When me and my family got there it was a small place and we were the only ones in the restaurant so it’s very low key. Our dinner arrived quickly. And everything was truly amazing. I would recommend this place to everyone. #govegan

We got the Chow Mein and Red Curry dish on our visit today. I have to say the food was delicious! Very flavorful and just the right level of spicy! Also tried their Thai Tea and Thai Coffee. The only complaint id have is that the Chow Mein had way too much vegetables and a very small amount of noodles. Also, once we got our food and drinks no one came to check up on us to see if we needed anything.

Ah, amazing! We got the yellow curry and pad thai delivered (fulfilled through Eat24) and it was way better than expected.
You have the choice between mild, medium, spicy, or extra spicy for each dish. We did spicy, but I wish we had done extra spicy. Didn’t quite kick me in the mouth like I was hoping. Even so, the flavors were phenomenal. The yellow curry was so luxuriously creamy and rich. Wonderful balance of flavors with spices, tofu, broccoli, potatoes, and peppers. The curry was slightly sweet, so the pad thai was the perfect savory compliment. The pad thai noodles were cooked well and it had such wonderful flavors going on.
Servings are enormous. We have enough left over for two more meals or one large, indulgent meal.
Delivery took about an hour on a Monday evening. I expect it’d be longer on the weekend.

This place is fantastic, and I wish it delivered farther into Gilbert.
Finally, decent options for delivery when you are craving vegetarian food!
I recommend the pumpkin curry.

This little place is something you want to give a chance to and not judge by it’s décor. When we go out to eat we need to focus on the food, right?
This restaurant offers brown rice, very clean ingredients and friendly kind service. When it comes down to it, those things are the most important. We tend to forget it’s here, but each time we eat here we feel great, never bloated, and yet we are still full and satisfied. The food is served family style, which is nice so everyone can share. And really you can eat a little less, which is a good thing.
I love this place & I’m so grateful that they offer a vegan menu in a sweet home like environment.

I hate leaving bad reviews but I have to because this place has too many stars and it was terrible. I came here with a friend and we were both very disappointed with the quality and the freshness of the food. There was also a huge half dead roach in the bathroom on the floor, gross!
I will never eat here again!

**Update: there are two menus here, a menu catering to more «American» taste items and one with authentic Vietnamese vegetarian. This review is for the Vietnamese menu**
Warning: if you like super clean, wanna-​be fancy ikea decorated restaurants and don’t like authentic Vietnamese food… this is not the restaurant for you!
I think Vietnamese vegetarian food is incredibly underrated and very over shadowed by more popular dishes like phở and spring rolls. With a large Buddhist population, Vietnamese make some of the best vegetarian meals, although I admit I am slightly biased. Even if you’re not vegetarian like me, you would be considering it if you tried Vietnamese imitation meat.
After moving from socal, my expectations for Arizona Asian food is very low, but this place surprised me! It’s actually one of the best Vietnamese vegetarian restaurants I’ve been to, and very comparable to homemade food (sorry grandma!). Yes, it’s a bit hole in the wall, but who cares? Bun Mang Vit was absolutely delicious and highly recommended. Other dishes I tried were very good, too, like the mi xao gion (crispy noodles) and com tam (broken rice). Great variety of dishes, good portions and delicious food.

Authentic vegetarian vietnamese food. Phở is truly outstanding — still have the yummy healthy taste in my mouth! Spring rolls are overly stuffed with goodness. Eggplant dish full of flavor. It’s simply the best healthy vegetarian place we have visited in Ariz. so far. Food is very comparable with the restaurants in Westminster, CA. It’s a small and unassuming place located in a so so strip mall but just off the light rail (Sycamore stop) and across the street from the asian mall Mekong Plaza.
Thank you again for a wonderful meal and kind friendly service. We will be back 100% and can’t wait to sample more items on the menu!