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Shanghai branch of the Hong Kong based health food shop & eatery created by the Green Monday organization. Menu offers fusion vegan food with choices like pho soup, french toast, beyond burger, breakfast scramble, dan dan noodles, teriyaki bowl, ominpork, and vegan muffin sandwich. Store products are clearly labeled with allergens. Jul 2021 reported fully vegan. Reported closed October 2022.


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4 Reviews

First Review by MichaelRobinson

MichaelRobinson

Points +3374

Vegan
22 Aug 2021

Vegetables Are Second Place

I know it may sound ungrateful to complain, it's a position of privilege I have. Firstly I live in Zhongshan park area so this is on my doorstep so I was extremely excited to have a brand new plant based restaurant open within walking distance. The first time we tried a few weeks ago now the pictures on the menu looked great, we tried a special festive menu deal. The red coloured steamed buns were just ok and this is the start of my issues, everything is just ok not amazing. The interior is big and bright and clean but the food is mostly fake meat products with advertising on everything: Omnipork, Beyond Meat etc. I had a bacon burger and it was good, the bacon was quite bland, the fries were ok and the salad was just a few leaves with a mediocre dressing. We went as a group of four and the service was poor with food arriving an hour after ordering when other dishes had arrived and been eaten, they did apologise, give us free tea and offer free desserts. I had the breaded pork cutlet with curry and rice, the cutlet was good but the curry was again just average. The desserts are good especially the peanut butter banana pudding, the veganmisu is ok the cream tastes a bit too synthetic. My problem is this, everything just feels like convenience food, like a vegan option from Starbucks, not what you would expect from a wholly plant based restaurant. The emphasis here is clearly on fake meat products while actual plants take a back seat. I know I am spoilt living in Shanghai but it saddens me that other non-vegan places do much better food like the salads at Maya or the katsu curry at Pie Society. It's an achievement in itself that this place exists and if it helps the cause of veganism then good, at least I can get a burger when I can't be bothered getting a metro but it's not going to be my first choice despite it's proximity. To end on a more positive note they sell products too which include vegan Malteaser style chocolates.
We went to try the new desserts, it was a quiet night but still it took over 30 minutes for our desserts to arrive and when they did, they were frozen. This place continues to disappoint, the food isn't freshly made, to not deliver desserts ready to eat is unbelievable. This place has the potential to be good but just can't seem to get it's act right. They do now sell vegan cheese slices which is pretty good.

Updated from previous review on 2021-08-22

Pros: Reasonably priced, Everything is plant based, Nice big interior

Cons: Focus is on the fake meat not the veggies, Feels like convenience food

WendyMeow

Points +18

Vegan
19 Aug 2021

Vegan Restaurant For All

Green Common is a must to bring meat-lovers and omnivores to try vegan food. My friends impressed by the plant-based food there! Tasty and wide variety of food choices with comfy atmosphere. You won't feel like you are at a veg restaurant at all. And we can purchase the plant meat and bring that home after a satisfied meal, what a holistic store.

Highly recommend the luncheon fries, mapo tofu, planet army stew pot, vegan tiramisu, peanut butter banana pudding.

Updated from previous review on 2021-08-19

Pros: The showroom of new plant based products

Cons: Only one store in SH at the moment, not like HK.

AlexKolb

Points +441

Vegan
15 May 2021

Best in Shanghai

A must visit in Shanghai. I don’t know why this isn’t listed as vegan. It is a purely vegan establishment. It also helps educate people about the benefits of veganism and lists all the UN global goals on the stairs. The food is incredible. We have visited many times and tried lots of great dishes. Also lots of vegan junk food like beyond burgers and fake chicken. Great for vegans and flesh eaters.

KseniaM

Points +28

Vegan
16 Apr 2021

Disappointed😒

I was really looking forward to going to this place. They did great marketing, and I’ve been reading about them everywhere. Finally decided to go and make it a nice Friday outing. Well, the space is fine, big, bright, they have an outside seating, big open space on the first floor and more restaurant-like looking second floor. The menu is beautiful, I was so excited looking at it, wanted to order everything! But the food itself came as disappointment. It’s just not tasty at all, reminded me FamilyMart box-food. And although it’s not expensive, it’s still not in FamilyMart price range.
We ordered mushroom ravioli, which looked great on the photo in menu but tasted very so-so, same with laksa, tacos, spicy dumplings, soup and vegan tiramisu. Everything is so average that I wanted to cry. They advertised it as an awesome chef cooking place, but it turned out to be the marketing for omnipork and beyond meat😭 Seriously we cook vegan lasagna at home with omnipork or z-Rou ground “meat” and it tastes soooo much better than this food and none of us are good at cooking.
Sad, but hope that it’s just the start of this kind of fully plant-based restaurants and there are going to be many more much better ones!
Ah also, service is BU HAO. They bring food in one hour even in almost empty restaurant. They brought dumplings first and then soup, which just doesn’t make sense with European style food and waiters look unhappy and don’t even try to be nice.
Eh... so sad!

Pros: Beautiful menu, The idea of fully plant-based restaurant

Cons: Not tasty, Not so many plants in plant-based dishes , Slow and unhappy service




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