Here’s the tofu scramble at Hugo’s.

I can’t believe that I’ve been dining at Hugo’s all this time and I’d never tried their tofu scramble until recently. It’s really freaking good! “Organic tofu scramble with sweet potato, green onion, tomato, spinach, garlic and mushrooms with ginger-soy sauce”. The tofu was the super firm kind and it nicely picked up the flavor of the sauce, which was delicious. The addition of the sweet potatoes give it a really nice depth, sweetness and texture. Definitely one of my new Hugo’s favorites.

This is the Quinoa-Black Bean Burger at Hugo’s, but instead of having it on a bun I had them do it as a wrap in their spinach tortilla. It was great! The burger is made from quinoa, black beans, breadcrumbs, carrots, onion, almonds, sunflower seeds, basil, pepper and cilantro… it’s really tasty. They also stuff it with Anaheim chiles, guacamole and Sante Fe veganaise, lettuce and tomatoes. They’ll even give you grilled onions should you be so inclined. Served with an organic green salad.

Another fine meal at Hugo’s. I got up the gumption to the try the “Create-A-Plate” which allows you to pick from a nice long list of mostly vegan/vegetarian options.

After much internal debate taking many factors into consideration, I opted for the roasted beets, organic gingered carrots, roasted yams & sweet potatoes and black bean cakes. Ahhh, they were all so good, simply prepared yet full of flavor and all around yum. This huge serving provided me with at least two more meals worth of leftovers. Hugo’s isn’t cheap but they give you a ton of delicious and high quality food.

At Hugo’s restaurant you can get this massive vegetarian club sandwich with grilled tofu and fake bacon. There’s a yummy topping on there too, I think it’s a mix of guacamole and veganaise. Their seasoned french fries are to die for, not an indulgence I’ll often allow… yet displayed here shamelessly for one and all to see (and covet).

The ‘Potato Samosa Quesadilla’ at Hugo’s is fantastic. It’s a whole wheat tortilla stuffed with Indian spiced potatoes, carrots and peas… basically everything you’d usually find inside a samosa. It was served with a delicious mint chutney that was both sweet and spicy, the sort of thing you start to salivate about when you think about it later on, attempting to translate it’s flavor into a blog post.

Up close and personal.

This lovely arrangement is the ‘Kelp Noodle Salad Bowl’ at Hugo’s. The kelp noodles (which you can barely see under there) are topped with “julienned vegetables, sprouts, snow peas, cilantro and scallions. Tossed with orange-mango-sesame-chili dressing. Garnished with mixed sea vegetables, pickled ginger and toasted sesame seeds”. They offer a choice of protein, mine was the grilled tofu. It was fantastic, the dressing was very subtle and let the flavors of the other ingredients come through. The pickled ginger took it over the top.

I like to treat myself to their Green Tea Matcha latte once in a while. I get it with soymilk and vanilla which makes it just perfect. It’s also really good iced, but it was cold out today so the heat hit the spot.

This was a tasty stir-fry from Hugo’s, with organic marinated tofu, snow peas, tomatoes, broccolini, mushrooms, jicama, green onions, cilantro in a seseame chili sauce, served over quinoa.

The cute waitress at Hugo’s suggested I try the “Very Green Casserole”, so I did. Delcious. Thank god for cute waitresses. Here’s the lowdown from the menu: “Sauteed brocclini, spinach, asparagus, zucchini, with garlic and fresh herbs in a tomato basil pesto sauce. Topped with a black bean quinoa patty and melted mozerrela and goat cheese (they substituted with vegan cheese that was very tasty and had great texure and meltyness). Served with organic mixed green salad with sesame ginger dressing.

Inside view: