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Apteka

Reviews 1.465

• Tristen Huang
  Sun, 11 Feb 2024 20:59
  Absolutely adore this place! Wonderfully done vegan food and so creative, too. I’ve been here twice—once with their regular menu and once for a set menu for Christmas. Great variety of dishes and a good quantity of food (especially at that Christmas dinner, oh my). I really can’t wait to come back, and I highly recommend anyone to dine here, vegan or not!
• Kristen Peairs
  Tue, 2 Jan 2024 23:16
  We loved Apteka! The food was interesting and delicious. It satisfied my GF vegan preferences and my husband's omni tastes. The drinks were an extra special treat. The whole experience was one of a kind.
• B
  Sat, 17 Feb 2024 1:02
  Cool concept. Loved the seating and set-up. Food was delicious. Service was super efficient. Staff was great. All-around positive everything. So glad to be able to support an all-vegan place.
• Jason
  Sat, 4 Nov 2023 13:15
  Food was not particularly interesting or flavorful, but fun to try. Service was great and the atmosphere was unique. They were amazing with accommodating food allergies for one member of our group.
• Wren King
  Tue, 23 Jan 2024 23:05
  CRAPTEKA REVIEW!!! It was my roommate's birthday on Monday and after I sang the praises of Apteka, she wanted to go, so I took her for her birthday. Upon looking up the menu, we found out about the burger joint event, and were cautiously thrilled for a different experience. The wait was longer, but we waited as they opened to be put on a list, so we were able to go home and come back an hour later. CRAPTEKA'S service is incredibly fast, all of our food came within 10 minutes of us sitting down other than our desserts, but the bottom line is that these meals were ridiculously good. It's incredibly flavor forward, and every menu item had us shocked that it was vegan/vegetarian. We got the kebab, the swamp burger, and the yuba BBQ, along with two orders of fries (very generous servings) with fantasy mayo (amazing). We drank a hurricane and a whiskey sour, which were great. Dessert was the cake and the shake, both were divine, but that cake was uniquely amazing. If you can make it out before CRAPTEKA is done for the year, you'll have an incredible experience. //I've been hoping to go to Apteka for quite some time, and finally I was able to go last week. We showed up a little before open, and there was a short line. An employee came out, gave us menus, and explained that we order at the bar and then are seated. We got the choice to sit inside or outside (we chose outside), and were able to keep our menus. The wait was very short, and gave us plenty of time to peruse the menu. I was glad we chose to sit outside, the tables were further away from the tables inside, the heat lamps kept it warm, and the atmosphere was spectacular. We joked that we felt like we were drafting up military movements. To drink, we got the nasza gorzka and the gin drink with orange wine I believe, which were delicious. We took a while to drink them, and they were delicious all the way down, never felt like they got watered down. For the appetizer, we got the placinta, which was lovely, a great and filling appetizer, but the real show came with our entrees. We had the smazone pierogi and the pierogi z ziemniakami. The smazone had two types of fried pierogi, and they were absolutely delicious; I'd recommend this for a first timer as it was very approachable. I really enjoyed the dandelion greens pierogi, it had so much umami flavor, but the sauerkraut one was also amazing. The ziemniakami was definitely something you have to slow down and enjoy. It's a very classic potato and cabbage pierogi with çwikla (beet and horseradish) and czarna salsa (like a salsa negra but the peppers are replaced with Zanzibar black peppercorns and mixed with smoked and black garlic and spices for days). The czarna salsa is absolutely what makes this dish, it's divine and unique to Apteka, and if you get a bite with everything and focus first on the peppercorn, you go through a beautiful exploration of these incredibly simple ingredients that truly is a gift. I recommend trying everything on a bite of the pierogi first, then breaking it all down and appreciating each bit. We finally had the smazone jablka w ciescie, which you have to let the waitstaff know you're ready for about 10 minutes in advance. This is an absolutely mind-blowing dessert. It is thinly sliced apples lightly battered and fried into indescribably delicious flat donuts. It's what you always wanted apple pastries or apple pie to taste like for every single bite. This is to die for. I was so grateful to have this experience, and I recommend everyone comes and takes their time with their food. This is an experience where if you take the time to get to know the flavors, you will be rewarded. I cannot wait to come back.