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Tillie Gort's is a one star restaurant in Pacific Grove. They're still working to earn their stars. It's known for its vegetarian offerings.
2.0 of 5 stars.
Good tomato mushroom soup. That's about all sad to report.
yelp.com - user review - 10/12/2009
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1.0 of 5 stars.
I'm not a native but I vacation in California once a year, and by vacation I mean... eat my way through California. We have been eating so much we just wanted a nice vegetarian, crunchy vegetables...
yelp.com - user review - 08/07/2009
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5.0 of 5 stars.
Randomly found this gem on the way to the aquarium. Their tofu scramble is scrumptious. Also had a very fluffy delicious pancake. I would recommend Tillie Gort's to any vegetarian looking for a...
yelp.com - user review - 08/05/2009
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5.0 of 5 stars.
Wonderful hidden gem. We visited Monterey and loved the area, but the choices on Cannery Row were limited, especially in terms of vegetarian offerings. We asked for some advice and were pointed...
yelp.com - user review - 08/05/2009
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5.0 of 5 stars.
Tillie gets 5 stars for being one of the 2 places we found in Monterey that had vegan & vegetarian options. Not only that but they have an amazing Vegan Carrot Cake that my wife loved! Our sever Nikky...
yelp.com - user review - 07/15/2009
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4.0 of 5 stars.
We had a VERY friendly waitress who seemed to want nothing more in life than to make our lunch the best experience EVER. wow. Unusually cheerful.The food was pretty stellar too. :-)The honey aioli...
yelp.com - user review - 06/13/2009
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3.0 of 5 stars.
We will definitely be visiting this place again, because my husband's meal was great! However, mine was not great! He had the polenta, and it was full of great flavors. I had the paella, and it was...
yelp.com - user review - 05/17/2009
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2.0 of 5 stars.
Okay. This is very depressing. I have been regularly going to Tillie Gort's for the last 15 years. It is so sad how downhill it has gone. Yes, over the last few years they have gone through many new...
yelp.com - user review - 05/17/2009
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4.0 of 5 stars.
I went here after rolling into town from the Bay Area. We stopped here at the suggestion of our friend, who is a vegetarian and had a good experience here before. We were seated immediately, despite...
yelp.com - user review - 03/08/2009
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1.0 of 5 stars.
darn it, i hate giving bad reviews!unfortunatly, i have to disagree with most people's reviews on this. maybe it was an off day, i dont know. but, my wife and i went there for a late lunch last...
yelp.com - user review - 02/18/2009
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4.0 of 5 stars.
The food here has a real "home-cooked" quality that I like and is very hard to find as a vegetarian. I had the polenta with vegetables and enjoyed it very much. The marinara sauce had a rich tomato...
yelp.com - user review - 01/23/2009
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3.0 of 5 stars.
Great for the vegetarian, not so great for the vegan, unless you like vegie burgers. I got the roasted vegetable sandwich special, and it was delicious, but not worth ten bucks. My friend got a...
yelp.com - user review - 01/04/2009
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4.0 of 5 stars.
I've been going to Tillie Gorts for about 30-some years. I don't live in the area, although I did briefly, so I only get there about once a year tops, but I can't imagine going to the Monterey Bay...
yelp.com - user review - 12/31/2008
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4.0 of 5 stars.
Someone asked me to describe this place. I said, "You know the hippie crunchy restaurants from the '70s? It's one of those."A lot of the dishes are very much like something I'd make for myself. That's...
yelp.com - user review - 12/08/2008
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4.0 of 5 stars.
Is it overpriced? Yes. But considering it's one of the very very few genuinely vegetarian/vegan friendly places to eat (and by that I mean having more than ONE veggie option) in the Monterey area they...
yelp.com - user review - 12/01/2008
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4.0 of 5 stars.
I was apprehensive about all the recent low marks on Tillie's. Had it changed that much from a year ago, or was I just being generous my first time around? While it doesn't merit five stars, I can't...
yelp.com - user review - 11/10/2008
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3.0 of 5 stars.
Though the waitstaff was stellar and the coffee enjoyable, the benedict needed serious help. The eggs weren't poached well and the hollandaise sauce was too sour and thin. The potatoes that came...
yelp.com - user review - 11/05/2008
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5.0 of 5 stars.
I honestly don't know what the people giving this place 1 star are talking about. I use to eat at Tillie Gort's years ago. Just recently I rediscovered it. Nothing has changed! The food is great...
yelp.com - user review - 10/01/2008
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3.0 of 5 stars.
It's never easy trying to find a place to eat at in a city you're not familiar with. Since I didn't have the chance to yelp it we ended up just driving down a street and just deciding when we saw a...
yelp.com - user review - 09/05/2008
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4.0 of 5 stars.
There were certainly loads of options for me at Tillie Gort's but I opted for the tacos. Now tacos can be a risk as they really do need to be fresh and I typically prefer to make my own. But I went...
yelp.com - user review - 09/04/2008
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5.0 of 5 stars.
Probably my favourite restaurant of all time. The vegan cake is the best. I just adore this place.
yelp.com - user review - 09/03/2008
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3.0 of 5 stars.
They have some new staff that was not helpful nor overly friendly. Seriously, there were only 3 tables to be waited (waited on?) on a Saturday evening and I waited excessive amounts of time for...
yelp.com - user review - 08/04/2008
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1.0 of 5 stars.
Don't waste your time! The food USED to be good. Now, it is so horrible. I think that they use old food! We were so disappointed!Monterey needs to open more Vegetarian/Vegan restaurants. My husband...
yelp.com - user review - 07/14/2008
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3.0 of 5 stars.
Update- I still go here every now and again, but I agree with a lot of the other recent reviewers that the food is often sub-par, they don't have as many vegi options as they could, and the whole...
yelp.com - user review - 06/13/2008
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1.0 of 5 stars.
i want to like this place, I really do. I'm not sure why the two times I've been here the food has been HORRIBLE! Perhaps I'm just used to the good vegetarian/vegan restaurants in San Francisco and...
yelp.com - user review - 06/12/2008
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4.0 of 5 stars.
Tillie Gort's food is just like I got growing up. Supermarket food ala microwave. The food here is really worth only 3 stars - but it gets bumped up to 4 stars for having so many veg options and vegan...
yelp.com - user review - 05/27/2008
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5.0 of 5 stars.
Nom nom nom... we rolled into Pacific Grove on a dark and windy Friday night and rushed ourselves to Tillie Gort's for dinner. I had some sort of standard meal - black beans with brown rice and...
yelp.com - user review - 04/26/2008
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5.0 of 5 stars.
YUM!!!!! delicious foods with fresh ingredients, very pleasant environment with great classic rock playing and local artist works all over the walls, and great customer service. Highly recommended!
yelp.com - user review - 04/20/2008
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5.0 of 5 stars.
what a cute little cafe! we were scouring the area near the aquarium for a locally owned mom and pop type shop, and we stumbled across this place! the waitress had been working there for ages and...
yelp.com - user review - 03/13/2008
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4.0 of 5 stars.
This is an awesome spot to get a good, hearty breakfast before a long day of scuba diving. Huge portions, good food. I loved the huevos rancheros. The corn tortillas were a bit stale, but nothing...
yelp.com - user review - 02/18/2008
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4.0 of 5 stars.
This was a fairly decent spot on our way back from Monterey Bay Aquarium, I remember the night was a bit foggy and the food was good. It had a nice cafe feel to it and the fog that day reminded me of...
yelp.com - user review - 10/02/2007
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5.0 of 5 stars.
If I didn't mind putting a mass amount of greenhouse gas into the atmosphere, I would drive to Monterey every chance I got just to eat at Tillie Gort's. The "no-meatloaf" was incredibly yummy and it...
yelp.com - user review - 09/26/2007
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1.0 of 5 stars.
I'd never had a bad tuna sandwich...til I ate here. C'mon, crack open the can, throw in some mayo, how hard can it be?
yelp.com - user review - 04/22/2007
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5.0 of 5 stars.
Tasty and inexpensive.... great vegan desserts too!
yelp.com - user review - 02/24/2007
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5.0 of 5 stars.
Decent atmosphere. It has an amazing selection of tasty foods. I had a mediterranean sampler to start and the paella special to eat. Everyone else in the party was very pleased with the selection...
yelp.com - user review - 02/18/2007
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5.0 of 5 stars.
Based on just one visit, I can guarantee I will be back. I had a Mediterranean vegetarian omelette that came with potatoes and toast, and it was all perfectly delectable. The omelette included...
yelp.com - user review - 09/13/2006
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5.0 of 5 stars.
I am a meat eater... however....This place opened me up to some of the greatest food I have ever eaten. Very simple, very healthy... they even offer alternatives to veggies... like meat! It is a...
yelp.com - user review - 07/17/2006
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OMG the food here is delicious! My fiance and I were trying to avoid typical Denny's fare and found Tillie Gort' Cafe in Pacific Grove. I ordered their egg and apple sausage platter. It came with c...
judysbook.com - user review - 04/03/2006
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not the best-ever atmosphere, but a wide variety, and some good...
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this place recently won best vegetarian restaurant in monterey by coast weekly magazine and it is a great casual place to hang out, not one where you are rushed to eat and leave. you can hang out as long as...
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