Common Roots

I found this place perhaps six months ago, and I love it!! I have been riding my electric bike quite a bit, and perhaps once a week I stop in w my coffee and get a breakfast sandwich or bagel. They have vegan muffins, a variety of vegetarian offerings (to go), smoothies, etc. They also have t-shirts, Rye memorabilia, soaps and candles, healthy snacks, quality chocolate bars, and currently winter hats and gloves. The atmosphere is friendly and pleasant, and I am happy to patronage a local business, and particularly one so good!!

We just discovered this place, today Sat June 19th, & I wish I had discovered it earlier in our trip because we would have eaten there everyday. It's hard to find good vegan food when you're on vacation, & we go back home to NY tomorrow. This place has delicious cashew cheese that we got on our fries & on our ultimate burger. Friendly staff who even gave my 2 dogs a hand baked treat! Anyone looking for a healthier meat free alternative needs to try this place! We'll be stopping tomorrow morning for sure before we leave Rye! I wish I could give it 10 stars because it deserves 10

Wow a couple menu items blew me away. Try the kale caesar (spectacular, vegan), the hang ten omelet (amazing, but not vegan) and the vegan gyro. Smoothie was also stellar and they accommodated my custom order. Skip the garden salad (standard lettuce and cherry tomatoes) and of course expect the New England summer mainstay, slightly distracted (but sweet :) teenagers at the register. I should mention that they weren't quick, but they were so good it was well worth the wait. Will head straight here next time I'm in the area. One more note: as a place with so many wonderful non standard items, I wish they had some kind of ingredient list available. For example, what comprises the vegan gyro? They could tell me only vaguely, and only the main ingredient. I wanted a clearer idea of the components for dietary reasons. I'm still not sure what was in that gyro, even after eating it. Any rice? Any flour? Corn? High carb? Low carb?..

This is some of the most bland vegan food I've ever had. It's great that they offer vegan menu items, but they put next to no thought in actually making them flavorful. Their "seitan" is made from cannellini beans, not wheat gluten, and is flavorless mush. The ready-to-go vegan stuff like feta cheese and the soups are similarly disappointing. No thanks.