The blunt truth is that aside from the drinks and smoothies, Kush is not offering anything that you can't already find in Shanghai with a better price and better quality.

However, my husband and I keep ordering through Sherpa's because it's vegetarian AND delivers--we've ordered maybe a dozen times now. I've only eaten at the restaurant once. The quality of the food is incredibly inconsistent. I seriously wonder if the cooks or management has ever tasted the food coming out of their own kitchen, because there is a big problem with quality control.

We've tried pretty much everything vegan on the menu except the pasta and the wraps (they refused to leave cheese out of them). The only thing that has not disappointed us is the soup. The curries are absolutely revolting: mushy, sloppy, overcooked, and either completely bland or tasting only of chili. My friends have all had similar experiences with the curry. They should send the cooks on a cooking course at vegetarian May Kaidee's in Bangkok if they're going to insist on serving Thai food. The noodle dishes are overly sweet and oily, but I guess some people might like that. The salads seem inventive, but never hit the mark--all over priced as well.

The burgers are bready and on a white bun (whole grain or gluten free would be a nice option), but they're pretty good, fill you up, and come with salad. So imagine my disappointment when we ordered last week and they arrived burnt on one side! I worked in restaurants for many years, and I can't understand why they would let not one, but two burnt burgers leave the kitchen. That's just unacceptable.

The soups are all right, but simple enough that you could make them at home for less money. One of my friends liked a falafel wrap, so maybe if you stick to wraps and salads, you'll be okay.

Try harder, Kush.

Over three meals I've had all the 3 burgers that they serve. They are all really tasty and show the amount of time, thought and care that went into the recipes! Well done. I'll be back for more and to try the other dishes on the menu.

I ordered from Kush tonight for the first time. What a great surprise!

The food taste fresh, home-made, with no excessive seasoning, and feels really healthy. I had the Pumpkin and feta muffins which were moist and tasty, the tofu salad for which the tofu was well flavored, and the chocolate balls for dessert which tasted exactly like my aunt makes them back home for Christmas.

Kush will not appeal to everyone as it is very health focus, but it is definitely one of my new Sherpa's favorite!

I've had the takeaway service here twice now. The website is easy to use and clear (though both times I chose 'no packaging option' and ended up with a lot of packaging).

Agree with other posters that the veggie burger was a little dry with too much bread, but the curry is lovely. I had the red curry twice and it was a good size with large chunks of sweet potato. It also had brown rice which was a bonus and made me feel healthy. I would really recommend this dish and this is reason I intend to order again.

Having now gone to Kush twice i feel that its a restaurant that could be great but just fails to hit the mark.

All the dishes are interesting, relatively creative (as much as a vegetarian restaurant can be), with relatively good service and but served in a very bland neutral wooden environment (sustainable wood and all that). I wouldn't take a date here, only for quick food with friends or business partners.

How the restaurant misses the marks is through the composition & proportions of their dishes. Don't get me wrong their ingredients are fine but just totally out of proportion.
E.g. Pasta salad - 90% thick pasta, 10% salad.
Kush raw salad - fresh crisp standard salad but with lashings of dressing and oil....just too much to enjoy.
Lentil & Kush veggie burger - great burger, interesting tastes but mammoth burger buns that are so big its feels like you are eating a loaf of bread.

All in all, hard to enjoy really, although i recommend the pita bread with dips as a starter, but that's all really. Shame its nice veggie restaurant that could be so much more with a little more attention to the dishes; makes me wonder if the owners / chefs taste their own food.

I couldn't find this venue page at first because I thought it was called Kosh. At least that is how I read that logo. The clumsy communication style aside, they definitely got their vision right for the interior. I can't help but feeling they should have taken the bigger space and dump sushi abuse in this corner, but the cozy comfy vibe it has does a lot of good.

Food then. Well - as any new place that is in full 'make a name' swing - Kosh/Kush goes through lengths to justify its menu and ingredients choices. I first felt this was all a bit over-selling the idea they represent. But I get it; the whole educate-them ambition. I have more respect for that then the gimme-your-lunch money attitude other venues reek off. And then you bite down in a wrap... The Arabian wrap for example. We were smiling ear to ear. That stuff is goooood. Border line pricey but is that not the deal for organic grub anyways? We also had a veggie tofu burger (ok, so I did not have to write veggie there cuz it is a veggie place. Dammit!), but less impressive. For starters, not spicey despite the label. And oily. The grease of the frying makes the bun soggy and the taste goes bye-bye. What else we ate? We grazed on a spring salad, asparagus with peas and egg. Enjoyed the lentil soup - good call on coconut cream here. One of us went fashionable detox with a smoothie - and didn't finish it as it tastes 'too green' for her. No idea what to make of that, I had a sip and well yeah; it is a veggie place, remember?

All and all; I much prefer this over its bigger brother sushi thing. We've been three times before writing this review, and I would not dub it a weekly kind of thing, but good for the occ different lunch or snack thing. Or to sit down with a couple of friends and chew the greens.

I am not a vegetarian but I always loved the creativity of this cuisine back in Europe and I was quite surprised to see that it was so hard to find a Western-style vegetarian restaurant here. Eating in a vegetarian restaurant shouldn't be considered as a hippie act so I was glad to find modern furniture and jazzy music, not to have the feeling to be on a short-trip to Kathmandu.

Waiters are very friendly and you can really relax there. I had the spicy tofu burger, a half-size salad and a lemon grass juice. The burger and salad provided a satisfactory amount of food for a lunch. The food was really good, my salad dressing had a slight touch of coconut and it was yummy. The burger was like nothing I ever tried before, the tofu patty had a great texture, the slices of avocado and the pesto sauce gave me a brand new burger experience!

For value for money, I put 3 on 5, the middle, because it is pricy. You need at least two dishes to feel full, and two dishes plus a drink that's at least 100rmb. But, if you pay attention to the quality of products, the brilliant originality of each dish and the exclusivity of the concept, well, Kush doesn't seem that expensive.

It's just their beginning but I hope that they will get a larger selection of dishes in the future and maybe less redundant ingredients (many dishes are based on the same vegetables). Vegetarian purists can also argue that this is not "real" vegetarian food, most dishes are modified omnivore dishes either without meat (like their nori) or with a meat replacement (like their burgers), a wider choice of legumes-based dishes would also be nice.

Anyway, I really wish that their concept works fine so that they open other outlets... or maybe others will try to replicate their concept.

If you have the feeling that you have already tried every kind of food available in Shanghai, go there.