The Tomato Head

Tomato Head Veggie Burger Tomato Head's Vegan Chocolate-Peppermint Pie

12 Market Sq.
Knoxville, TN 37902
865-637-4067
thetomatohead.com

Hours
Monday: 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Tuesday to Thursday: 11 a.m. to 9:30 p.m.
Friday and Saturday: 11 a.m. to 10:30 p.m.
Sunday: 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. (brunch: 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.)

Oh, Tomato Head, how do we love thee? Let us count the ways. We love your homemade veggie burgers, made fresh from scratch and topped with gooey vegan cheese. We love your marinated and baked tofu, which shows up in a multitude of dishes—from burritos and quesadillas to grilled sandwiches and calzones—and also as a salad and pizza topping. Speaking of pizza toppings, we love your fresh veggies—spinach, portobello mushrooms, artichokes hearts, Roma tomatoes, red peppers, kalamata olives—your sun-dried tomatoes, and your aforementioned vegan cheese. We love your zesty homemade hummus, which is paired with fresh veggies and organic blue-corn tortilla chips as an appetizer or stuffed along with cucumbers, carrots, red onions, tomatoes, and sprouts into a fresh-baked pita pocket. We love your vegan chocolate chip cookies, which are available daily, and hope against hope that the day we visit will be the day that you offer your magical vegan chocolate-mint pie as a dessert special.

We love that you strive to be trans-fat- and MSG-free and that you use fresh, organic ingredients whenever possible. We love that you tread lightly on the planet by composting scraps and recycling all your glass, plastic, metal, paper, and cardboard. We love that you now have two locations, one in Knoxville's downtown, historic, oozing-with-personality Market Square, and the other out in "the sticks" of Maryville (hey, hillbillies gotta eat too!).

Finally, we love that co-owner/chef and UT grad Mahasti Vafaie gave up a career as a petroleum engineer to feed the hungry masses. Mahasti and Tomato Head, have we mentioned yet how much we love you?

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