Most of the people there seemed relatively happy and content, and I have to say, I was utterly stunned by how good the food was. Honestly, I had no idea that vegan food could actually taste good. I thought it was going to be like medicine, just with some fancy greens tossed around it to make it look pretty, but hot damn!

All the same, when you go to a place that caters to people with specific dietary wants, you’re stepping into an established culture, and sometimes one person wants to be there and the other partner in dining, doesn’t, so you can see some kind of weird dynamics transpiring. There were a couple of other tables there when I was having a drink, two of them quite happy and relaxed, and the other one a little tense, maybe even combative, with the less slutty of the two young women saying to the other–her eyes fixed like steel– “You know, you said the exact same thing to me last time we got together. The. Exact. Same. Thing.”