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The menu is small,but good. The portions are small and they charge a lot for what you get. It's a very tiny and narrow restaurant, nothing to note about the decorations. Cool silverware, chairs, and a nice bathroom. In summary: It was a good experience, but I know you can get quality food in the city for a smaller price.

Dirt Candy was such a treat! It was like eating out at any up and coming restaurant in the city but enjoying delicious and artistic vegan/vegetarian food. No politics, no drab interior, or blandness. My friend and I shared the jalapeño hush puppies with maple butter, tofu with crispy broccoli and the asparagus and morel paella, which had a wonderful, crunchy Rice Krispy substituted crust. The desserts were excellent as well, especially the sweet pea ice cream in the vegan Nanaimo bar. I would certainly return.

I am neither vegetarian nor vagan, but my friend took me here since he lives nearby. The food was very nice but the wine list is was surprising for such a small place. A Mont Marcal Cava Brut - been there, done that. But it was nice to see something from Stadlmann on the list. Surprised to see a Pinotage. But the real winners were the Fritsch Zweigelt and the La Scolca Rose. We had glasses of each and couldn't have been happier. I wish they could team up with Terroir around the corner which has an amazing wine selection and a tiny, but good food menu. Dirt Candy has the opposite problem: amazing food menu and tiny, but good wine list.

I was expecting much more out of this place: slippery floors, food that should have been given more thought & touch, unused drinking glasses for other people that were placed near my head - which means that MY glass was near someone's mouth as well. I just don't think people should place vegetarian cuisine on a different level. Food should be excellent no matter if it has meat in it or not. If you compared this to any other place you'd eaten, you'd say it was dirt candy was hopeless, and you can't wait for the next restaurant to wash clean the old smell & taste.

I was really looking forward to dirt candy and left extremely disappointed. I am by no means a gourmet cook, but I could have made a better dish than the beet pasta using canned beets and boxed pasta. It literally had no flavor whatsoever. Hush puppies & kimchi donutes were so/so, they were served at room temperature. Although I don't like to be frozen out of a restaurant, I was sweating the entire meal, they paid no regards to the patrons comfort.

Me and my B/F just went last night and it was absolutely amazing!! The food proportions were perfect and the tastes were superb. True, the service wasn't completely up to par, but there was a new guy training so I forgive them. We shared the jalapeno hush puppies w/ maple butter (straight from the taste goddesses!!), the onion soup (sweet and salty, very pretty) and the tofu with broccoli (tofu was divine, broccoli was crisp, spicy and yummy...the sauce was a bit buttery). We were basically rolling out of there...stomachs full and happy. And BTW to answer the previous post, I am a vegetarian/locavore and was once a vegan and I wasn't insulted in the slightest. Read the website. The chef doesn't give a damn about your politics...she's made a place where you can get really good veggie food and that's it. Get over yourself and just enjoy the fact that you can have such amazing food in your life!!! A++++++

came on a wednesday night and was blown away. the food was so rich, so comforting. to start, i had the onion soup which was not what i was expecting, slighly bitter and smoky and with a sweet marmalade. had the pasta for my main and it was lovely. handmade pasta tastes better than anything else. the yoghurt and honey were perfect. for dessert had the nanamo bar which had sweet pea and mint ice cream which are strange flavours for ice cream but v. refreshing. service was very focused and calm. the kitchen was a little loud but the chef came out and talked to people which was reassured me that this food was made with love. final word: the quality and creativity is among the best in manhattan. but it's small, woman-owned and operated, and so much love and good vibrations are in the dining room that it's got a better "feel" than anywhere else i've been.