Crave And Co - Harrisburg

You might miss this place, they have a funky wooden sign out front and just a couple tables, but come in for some great stick to your ribs home cooked vegetarian/vegan food. We came for lunch, partner had the pulled pork which he loved, said the carrots and lentils provided a lot of sweet notes you 'd get with regular pulled pork and loved the sauce. I had a grilled cheese and kale salad, very good bread, nicely toasted but not greasy. (I put my salad on my grilled cheese and ate it as a kale-pesto sandwich and it was even better that way! My partner loves vegan food although he is not really vegan so we 'll go back for sure. Try the Strawberry Seltzer, one of the most refreshing drinks I 've ever had.

I went here on a hunch, we're two carnivores and a vegetarian. I picked this place, thought it would balance the needs of the few vs the many. The menu prefaced itself as being able to engage us meat eaters, and thrill the vegetarian among us. But much to our dismay it disappointed both...now that was a true trifecta! The vegetarian point of view was the food lacked inspiration. The bun was stale and the kale salad was underwhelming. On a scale of 1-10 the vegetarian among us gave it a 5. Ugh! So hopeful but utterly disappointing. As for the carnivores, mine was a buffalo chicken (NOT) expected this for this IS Truly a vegetarian place. But you expect freshness in everything including the bread...again another stale bun. I had the chickpea salad again just peas in a bowl nothing to Scintillate the taste bud. And to top it off...there was something in my beer! The only thing I would truly enjoy and that was ruined! I had such high hopes based on the reviews, in the end, Not as great as billed. Sad.

Service was fast and good. Order when you come in and sit for food if your eating in. We stopped by on our way through town coming from the DC area. The atmosphere was good. Place was clean. The food was ok. Ordered the Bahn Mi, Mac and cheese bbq not dog and bbq and blue burger. Also tried the Peruvian potatoes which was probably the best part of the meal. Sides were a chick pea salad or a kale salad. Again everything was okay. Would not go again. Probably just not our type of vegan food.

I'm not really sure what to say about this place. I am not a vegan myself though I have had some very good vegan food at times. I wasn't terribly impressed by The Vegetable Hunter. I went to the Carlisle location. It is clean and pleasant but the food just wasn't really to my taste. Not terrible certainly, but not all that great. I have a vegetarian friend who really loves this place and another vegetarian friend who hates it. I wouldn't refuse to go here in the future but I don't think I would be likely to choose it myself. I only tried a couple of the things on the menu though so maybe there are better things to be found here.

I would love to give a raving review because I love the idea of the place. It checks all my vegan boxes. The food is absolutely delicious but it took an hour to get our food since we initially got there. This place isn't the place if you're looking for a quick bite. Though I do recommend if you have at least an hour to wait or order online ahead of time.