Gianna's Grille

Hi. Let me take this opportunity to rave about Gianna's.

I know that Gianna's is a thorn in the side of most Philly vegans, but I'm all about giving people another chance. Part of this is due to the fact that I understand how businesses operate. Also, I'd rather give my business to a company that had one major fuckup than a faceless corporate entity whose practices I likely find more deplorable.

Ahem.

Anyway, I finally tried Gianna's for the first time in mid-May and I was hooked. Their pizza is absolutely BANGIN and their sandwiches are also to die for. (Personal favorites are the vegan sausage & spinach pizza and the Freebird Italiano with spinach & vegan cheese. New Boyfriend digs the meatball subs and Sicilian slices.) New Boyfriend and I can split a sandwich, order of cheese fries and a slice of dessert and both feel like we're going to burst. This is no small feat, given that New Boyfriend can literally eat about 4 bowls of linguine with "steak" TVP and two generous slices of Whole Foods marble poundcake before he's full. Hell, he killed 3 bowls of soba noodles and peanut sauce the other night. (Said soba noodles were loaded with broccoli, shelled edamame, peas, carrots AND "chicken" strips. The boy can eat. Heartily.)

Yet, somehow Gianna's fills us both to the max. I have yet to eat anything there that wasn't worth the money, especially when we're talking desserts. Every dessert I've eaten there has been as rich as the average non-vegan cake. DELISH. Yum yum yum. And I like the fact that you can come there with whiny omnivores who can't bear to part with their precious meat or cheese for one damn meal. (It's not like most vegans will accomodate those weiners, right?)

So I loves me some Gianna's. It is yum yum yum. Go eat there and be, like, punk rawk and stuff.

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Thanks to New Boyfriend, I am in the possession of an autographed ticket stub from Jello Biafra and we managed to exchange several sentences of small talk without me vomiting. Awesome Friday night, e-friends, awesome Friday night.

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