Karyn's Raw Vegan Gourmet Restaurant

0/5. After eating this unpalatable food, I and my friends encountered severe stomach troubles. I ended up vomiting by the time we had gotten back to our area, experienced sudden diarrhea, and ended up in the hospital with my first allergic reaction to a food.
At least they put cucumber in the water, though.

Really, really bad experience! After a month of pre- ordering via email/ phone conversations about a simple raw carrot cake went to pick it up today only for, first it could not be found ( 10 minutes) then found then it was being  'packaged ' (15 minutes) - it is finally brought out in a simple white box ( no special packaging ) shown to me only to NOT have the writing on it that was requested. Who knows what this will taste like, it's a gift. My dealings with Gabby at this place have been so UN customer friendly and then the 30 minute pick up ordeal certainly didn't make dealing with her attitude over the past few weeks any better.
Definitely would not do business with this place again.

Karyn is a revolutionary in my mind. As much as I adore this city of Chicago I often wonder why it seems that California is so far ahead of us on the conscious eating and lifestyle curve. From what I understand, Karyn's is the longest running vegan restaurant in the US so congratulations to her and the incredible staff. Recently after much research I realize that the dairy industry is actually as bad if not worse than the meat industry. This is not related to Karyn's but appropriate based on the subject: <a href="/redir?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3Des6U00LMmC4&s=ef006ab19984e961632b11435114b9c5defb96e12cf133ad5f5a22bfe9b65f01" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/w…</a>