Follow Your Heart

Follow Your Heart in Canoga Park is an all encompassing experience. Both a natural health food store and organic vegetarian restaurant, it has all you need to get your start in the veggie lifestyle.One of the oldest vegetarian restraunts and grocery stores in Southern California, it is also home to Vegenaise. To just call this a health food store, however would be selling it short. Also containing a vegan deli as well as a bookstore and vitamin shop, Follow Your Heart is packed with the neccesities needed for a green lifestyle as well as a conscious one.And now to the food!

We decided to use our option of veganizing the nachos. This was a good idea as they were delicious and hard to stop eating.The soy cheese and sour cream would decieve a non vegan in a taste test any day. The guacomole was fresh as was the salsa and the chips were crisp and addictive as well as organic.

The Tofu Filet was insanely good. Baked and breaded it is meant to evoke a fish filet sandwich. This was much better than any fish filet I can think of having had. Both flavorful and filling, the tartar sauce and lemon wedges really added to the effect and the whole wheat onion bun was a nice addition.

The supreme nutburger was unlike any standard veggie burger you would have in a restaurant. It was made fresh and without using any average binders i.e. eggs. The nuts added a unique flavor not often found in a veggie patty and the fresh toppings added to the all around flavors to the burger as a whole. The fact that they added sauerkraut further endeared this restaurant to me, as it is not a common topping often found in most restaurants.Overall, we had an amazing experience at Follow Your Heart and cannot wait to go back. I only wish it was closer and that more grocery stores like it were around. The familial atomosphere and friendly faces greatly added to the overall excellence that is Follow Your Heart.

http://www.followyourheart.com/

21825 Sherman Way, Canoga Park, California, 91303

Phone: (818) 348-3240