We started off with the Spinich Artichoke Dip.  I swear this dip has drugs in it because I end up gobbling up the whole bowl in seconds.  It’s so good and so greasy… it comes with white and blue super salty corn chips.  If I could afford to get this (it’s about $10) everytime I went to CPK and if didn’t add to the growing ring of fat around my stomach I would.

Above is the Sweet & Spicy Italian Sausage Pizza.  It’s good (for being frozen), and the crust is unmistakably CPK – buttery, soft and sweet (nothing crispy or flaky about this pizza, sorry).  My only gripe is that there are too many onions on it!!!

California Pizza Kitchen
524 Van Ness Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94102
(415) 436-9380
www.cpk.com

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Anyway, the food is good. I am a massive carnivore, and I honestly can’t complain about this food. I’ve eaten at alot of vegetarian restaurants, and I can tell you that the “meat” at Golden Era is the most “meat-like” out of all the different variations of seitan and tofu/soy products out there. The “beef” even has a stringy meaty texture, and the “chicken” is soft and tender and you can also see the “fibers”.  The thing I hate about most vegetarian food is that I’m always left feeling an unfulfilled void after my meal – but my void is filled at Golden Era, especially with the fried stuff.

I started off with the steamed veggie bun. It’s pretty good, I usually get it every time I go there. The photo isn’t as good as the normal ones because I had my lens baby on my cam – wasn’t really planning on eating out so I didn’t have my “food lens” with me…

This steamed veggie bun is very good.  The bun is soft and warm.  It kind of looks uncooked when it arrives (as most steamed buns look)… it’s dough-y and the inside is stuffed with a bunch of veggies, including black beans, tomato chunks, corn, peppers, onions… it has a nice, mild vegetable flavor.

This is the Spicy Gourmet Chicken.  I never had this dish before – I think it is new.  I think it’s supposed to be the “General Tso’s” version minus the battered fried balls of chicken because it was both a little sweet and had a nice little spicy bite to it.  I ordered brown rice with it but I didn’t eat much of it… the chicken was enough.  It doesn’t come with sauce though so to me it’s hard for me to justify eating it with rice.  It was good though, I would probably get it again.

Golden Era Vegetarian Restaurant
572 O’Farrell St.
(between Jones St & Leavenworth St)
San Francisco, CA 94102
(415) 673-3136
www.goldeneravegetarian.com

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