"Best Vegetarian Restaurant in Maryland, 2007" -Compassion Over Killing

COK is pleased to present VegDC.com 3 Green Stars award to The Vegetable Garden!

-COK, VegDC.com  2007

"The Vegetable Garden, Top-10 Veggie Restaurants" -  Alternative Medicine magazine,  05/2006

"The Vegetable Garden, this all-vegetarian Chinese restaurant is a local favorite, and its extensive vegan menu offers numerous mock meat dishes.  They have a General Tsao's Chicken that almost everyone I know routinely orders.  It's a fabulous dish", said Erica Meier, the executive director of Compassion Over Killing."  -  The Washington Post, Source  03/06

The Vegetable Garden in Rockville, City's Best - Healthy Dining,  Aol City Guide   2006

"Tom Sietsema’s Annual Dining Guide, Rated in Food Moods" - The Washington Post Magazine  10/05

"I've tried to find a restaurant in the DC area comparable to The Vegetable Garden.  Honest.  But none even come close to the extravagant menu and luscious recipes found there.  Yes, the restaurant specializes in vegan, vegetarian and organic food.  Want to find out just how good vegetarian can be?  Don't miss The Vegetable Garden."  -  NFT, Nancy Dunham  01/05

The Vegetable Garden vegetarian restaurant - City's Best,  Aol City Guide 2004

"The Vegetable Garden Restaurant in Rockville is wonderful.  They have the Kung Pao Chicken and Beef with broccoli just like you would eat at another Chinese restaurant, but it's vegan!"  - The Washington Post, The Expert, Vegan Chef   11/03

"A Garden Full of Organic Vegetarian Cuisine Beckons in Rockville." -  The Washington Post, At your leisure, Local Tastes  07/01

"One of the Top 31 Vegetarian Restaurants in the Country" -  Vegetarian Times  01/ 2000

"The ambience is pure strip-mall, but the food is worth the trip to the Capitol's only Chinese mock meatier.  A mostly Asian menu featuring tofu and seitan in various guises also includes Portobello burgers and---you guessed it---penne primavera.  Even if you don't like Key Lime Pie, try the fabulous vegan version: smooth and tart, but not sour."   -  Vegetarian Times 01/2000

"This Washington, D.C. -area restaurant is appropriately named, considering the absence of meat and dairy products from the menu.  Very little oil is used in the food preparation, and many low-sodium ingredients are incorporated.  Sounds boring, right?  Wrong.  The restaurant's devoted following continues to grow because of the inspired and flavorful all-vegetarian dishes that taste like beef, duck, pork, chicken or goose.  The best-seller is "eight treasure eggplant," a dish that includes shiitake mushrooms, yellow squash, red bell peppers and pine nuts, and is served over rice.  Several menu selections have been recognized by nearly Suburban Hospital as heart-healthy choices." -   Bon Appetite  Diet Watch  09/98

"In Rockville, MD., across the street from the White Flint Metro stop, the red neon sign in the Vegetable Garden's window seems to change yearly.  "Chinese Vegetarian Cuisine," it once said.  Then "Macrobiotic."  Then "Organic."  No matter, all the signs are true, and they all point toward a terrific vegan meal.  Standouts include Eight Treasure Eggplant and Yellow Bird, a fine reproduction of the whole-fowl original.  An entire menu section is devoted to meat alternatives.  Coffee can be lukewarm, but desserts, including carrot cake and rhubarb pie with mango sauce, are vegan and surprisingly good.
Whether you're in the Beltway for the politics, the monuments or the cherry trees, you're sure to find meatless meals to fit nearly every budget and mood.  While vegetarians may not have a lock on the nation's capital, they're well represented." -  Vegetarian Times 03/97

"Food Section callers often ask: "Where can we dine that's totally vegetarian?"  The answer is: directly across the street from the White Flint Metro Station.  Everything on the Chinese-inspired menu, from Mushroom Forest (six kinds of stir-fried mushrooms in a spicy hot sauce, $10.95), to Herb Garden Linguine with Vegetables ($8.95) is totally vegan-----meat-and dairy free.  -  The Washington Post, Food 03/97

"Now relocated from White Flint Mall to a strip mall across the street, this charming restaurant still serves the same menu---tofu prepared and seasoned myriad ways to resemble beef, chicken and shrimp.  Except for a few deep-fried selections, little oil is used in the cooking, eggs and dairy products are shunned, and brown rice is served.  "Healthful and generally flavorful". -  Washington Consumers' Check Book  09/96

"To understand the real versatility of soy products, however, it's worth visiting the Vegetable Garden in Rockville, which started as a walk-up in White Flint Mall (it's now in a complex called White Flint Station Shopping Center three blocks north on Rockville Pike) but which is beginning to get national attention from magazines that follow healthful eating.  Its men follows strict Buddhist rules, so there are no dairy products, garlic or onions (the pulling up of which might kill insects in the ground).  A meal of delicate "veggie-goose" (thin crepe-like soy pancakes wrapped around black mushrooms----really good),  crunchy sesame veggie-chicken (like nuggets, batter-fried organic tofu in a sweet sauce with asparagus on the side), steamed stuffed tofu skin rolls with Chinese spinach, and a firm tofu cake with mushroom sauce (which is better with a little chili sauce) will convince all but the most recalcitrant carnivores that soy is good stuff."  

-The Washington Post  Weekend  09/96

"One of the Top 30 Vegetarian Restaurants in the Nation"  -  NATURAL LIVING TODAY   06/96

"Rockville's Vegetable Garden is one of a kind."  -  Dining Out, Gazette Newspaper  12/95

"One of the 10 Best Vegetarian Restaurants in the U.S.A." -  SELF Magazine 08/93