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Closest available address
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14925 Midway Road, Suite 102 Addison, TX 75001
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Open Mon.-Fri., lunch 11-3 & dinner 5-9. Sat. 11-9, closed Sundays.
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972-980-1840
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1.5 hours
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June 2012
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All year
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$20-49
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Addison
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Texas
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Website
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Food/Drinks
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Vegan Restaurants
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First review
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The Loving Hut is an international vegan restaurant with over 200 locations, of which 40 are in the US. The restaurant emphasizes sustainability, compassion and peacefulness principles. Each restaurant is independently owned and the menus vary by location.
The restaurant was founded by Ching Hai, a Chinese woman who has established multiple businesses and who also founded a religious/spiritual organization. In addition to the restaurant chain, the Ching Hai businesses sell merchandise, books, tapes and religious materials. The Loving Hut restaurant emphasizes plant based diets as a better choice for both people and the planet. The food has an Asian theme and many of the dishes are Chinese.
The restaurant has an open feel, with a mix of white tables and booths and with modest wall decorations. The background music was an easy listening mix. Service was attentive and the food was generally good. Dinner was better than the buffet lunch, though the fried egg rolls and fried rice at lunch were tasty. Most of the dinner entrees include tofu or soy protein. The Chinese style hot and sour soup was thick, rich and spicy; the portion is generous and the soup is worth a second helping. Pot sticker fried dumplings were excellent, perfectly cooked and enjoyable with a soy dipping sauce. The Peking Divine entree with soy protein and bamboo shoots, was mediocre at best. The soy protein was hard to chew and bland, though the sauce was decent. An orange flavored drink with orange and cranberry juice was a small serving but was refreshing. For dessert an apple cinnamon cake was too creamy and was totally unappetizing. Loving Hut will mostly interest vegans and vegetarians and is worth trying, especially for fans of spicy food, but the dish quality is variable.
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