Best Restaurants with Bar Seating in University City

Always wonderful to dine here! Brought some non-vegan friends today and they loved it as well! Makes me so happy to have a restaurant with entirely vegan choices that are SO good. Drink choices are super fun too. Thank you Fitz on Fourth!!!

The food was delicious, the service excellent and the noise level fine. The back room,while acceptable seemed less attractive than the front-the main space. Still we very much enjoyed our first visit and look forward to returning soon.

Again, this is a 4.5 star restaurant—across all categories, including value and quality of food. The service, for me, was top notch—not only were servers attentive but were very friendly and seemed genuinely interested in making my experience enjoyable. I had some nice recommendations regarding some simple questions posed (burger or fish and chips? For which I was guided to an excellent burger at perfect requested temperature!) and my water and Guinness glasses were kept filled without the servers being too cloying. The Guinness was an excellent pour as well, and the Brussels Sprouts appetizer with kielbasa was a different twist and also well prepared. The only nitpick I had in terms of food was the hand cut fires, which were house made and fresh, were a bit tepid and flabby when served. The other nitpick was a seating issue—I was a bit nippy while seated at a hi-top in the bar area—the side door which was directly behind me let in cold air each time it was open. This is practically uncorrectable by the restaurant—so treat this not as a condemnation but as a pro-tip for your experience there (don’t sit behind that door in the winter!) And you should go—this was a quality experience and would go again (and again).

Always love this place! Food is DELICIOUS and reasonably priced. Even if you think you don’t like tofu - try the crispy tofu - you will be a convert!! Haven’t had a bad bite of food at SouthGate!