Wendel's Bookstore & Cafe

Used to love this place when I was vegetarian, however as a vegan there aren’t many options without several modifications.Still a good option for coffee which is great!

My heart hurts writing this review, but it’s true. there’s simply not enough vegan options, and if you do want your meal vegan, you need to be extra annoying and ask for no x,y, and z. if you’re in the fort and are needing a quick pick me up, I opt for the yam and quinoa salad, sub for balsamic dressing, no goat cheese, and no bread (butter is added) and extra greens. for dessert, you can have a couple of their mini vegan cookies or their peanut butter chocolate fudge bar

I’ve been here many times under the impression that some meals can be prepped vegan, and this was said with certainty by the many staff i’ve dealt with. my favourite thing to order was the yam and quinoa salad with a side of focaccia bread. to make it vegan, they told me to sub the dressing for balsamic, remove the cheese,and to ask for no butter on their focaccia bread. which I would do, many times. after months of ordering it, today it didn’t come with focaccia bread. why? well because they just informed me they weren’t sure about the ingredients. it’s pretty frustrating when you have to deal with misinformed staff members like this. I would have appreciated them to double check on ingredients before they gave me their word. I won’t be going back for a meal anytime soon.

I had the coconut curry bowl. Tasted great, but it wasn't even fully vegan as it came with garlic-butter naan. Too bad some restaurants can't even have one featured vegan meal option. There was a dessert a cookie labeled as vegan though.

I called today to check on one of the books that I had already ordered in the beginning of October online (more than months ago). I finally called today, because I had no updates, I was understanding because I was waiting for this to happen. Unfortunately, today I got an rude older lady on the phone, as a customer tried to explain that I had waited for months, just called for his status. she was really the way she answered my question! I told her that I would have expected the order as on my request, a friendly young worker told me that it would be more delay, but that it would arrive sooner or later the bookstore would then report me. it was the first time that I have ordered from them to support a local bookstore, I can be appropriate with the waiting times with the current events, but I will not tolerate such bad points to the customers. good food, but will no longer come to support this bookstore.