Green Zebra

This place is horrible from the food to the service.  I honestly don't know how it has made it this long

I pretty much a meatatarian...so...the best Green Zebra was probably going to do was 4 stars.  The food was quite interesting but the service was lacking.  The shortcomings in service ended up in 1 of the funniest moments my wife and I have had at a restaurant.  After completing (sort of) the tasting menu with wine pairings...and right before the check arrived...the waitress showed up...exhaled and started to unravel the events of the night as if she was a great detective in a murder mystery (so...we brought you the wrong soup...forgot your last wine pairing...etc).  If she had said the Butler did it with the candle stick in the library...it would have completed the moment.  

They ended up compensating us for the wine...and gave us a $25 gift certificate...which was nice...but...I don't think we'll be coming back here again.

I'm not vegan or vegetarian, whichever this restaurant is supposed to be. So I wasn't sure how to approach this review. Should I judge it based on it's status, or let it hold it's own as a restaurant. In the end I decided on the latter. I did the chef's tasting menu as I will anywhere that offers it. Everything tasted good, but I felt like I was served a series of appetizers. There was no progression, certainly no climax to the tasting. There was supposed to be, but I found the mushroom course, which featured a single solitary mushroom cap, to be anticlimactic. This was my first time doing vegetarian. I was anxious to try vegetarian because I wanted to see a chef stand up to the challenge of cooking up amazing flavors without meat. I don't think I'll ever go to this kind of restaurant again unless it's Indian where you have bold flavors and plenty of heat. I even declined to renew my season ticket holder status at Next because one of their menus this year will be vegan. I prefer to dine at Girl and the Goat where I can have some vegetarian options that taste amazing, and then move on and progress.