Category: travel
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Terri NYC
One of my favorite places to pick up vegan takeout in New York City is Terri. They’ve had a location for some time on 23rd street near 6th avenue (60 West 23rd Street, New York NY) and now they have on in the Financial District (100 Maiden Lane, New York NY). The storefront on 23rd…
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Vegan Phoenix
A couple of weeks back I was in Phoenix (well, Tempe really) for Pressnomics. Thought I’d share a few vegan spots in the area worth checking out. Green New American Vegetarian Green (@greendamon) has two locations – one in Tempe (2240 N. Scottsdale Rd #8, Tempe, AZ 85281) and one in Phoenix (2022 N 7th…
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Millennium Restaurant Closing
Sad days. Just got an email from the Millennium Restaurant mailing list, which reads in part: After more than 20 years in business, and with the end of our lease, we will serve our last meal as Millennium at 580 Geary St on April 30, 2015. We are so grateful to our co-workers, family, farmers…
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Vegan Montreal
Spent last weekend in Montreal – had a great time at DrupalCamp, and visited a number of great restaurants. The Green Panther / La Panther Verte (Yelp) The Green Panther was just down the street from my hotel, near Concordia, at 2153 Mackay Street. I got there close to closing, so they were already starting…
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Vegan French Bistro Comfort Mats
So I’m browsing the Ballard Designs catalog the other day and I stumbled upon these “French Bistro Comfort Mats,” which are described thusly: The fun design is based on a chalkboard menu we saw outside a Paris bistro Since I can’t resist an excuse to try out my French reading comprehension (which was never great…
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Maoz More than Ever!
Ok, I apologize for the groaner pun. But I’m very happy to learn (via QuarryGirl) that Maoz is expanding in New York, including a new storefront in Times Square. Maoz has been expanding throughout North America, with stores currently in Philadelphia (2), New York (5!), New Jersey (1 now, a 2nd soon), San Francisco (1),…
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Swine Flu and Factory Farming
As H1N1, aka the flu formerly known as swine flu, aka “The Other White Death,” continues to dominate the public media, it’s important to recognize the contribution factory farming (and animal agriculture in general) makes to these superviruses. Here’s video from CNN with Dr. Michael Greger from the HSUS: Embedded video from CNN Video Related…
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More than Salad
A new entry in the “global vegan restaurant directory” category came to my attention late last week: More than Salad. While I appreciate the humor in the Terms of Service: I’m not sure I’d spend a ton of time entering reviews here over my favorite VegGuide, which clearly licenses its content for others to use…
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Vegan Chicago – Karyn’s Cooked
While in Chicago for a conference, I had dinner at a new (to me) place in the North River neighborhood, not far from the Hilton Garden Inn: Karyn’s Cooked. It’s part of the broader Karyn’s set of restaurants, cafes, and spa, run by Karyn Calabrese. (Photo by PJ Chmiel, from his fantastic Vegan in Chicago…
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Starbucks, Soy, and Wifi (Rewards)
I have something of a love-hate relationship with mega-chain Starbucks. On the one hand, they consistently offer soy milk in (almost) every store, which I appreciated as a vegan. On the other hand, they are a mega chain, and I prefer to patronize local independent coffeehouses when possible, and they charge $0.40 extra for drinks…
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Rancho Foods, San Diego
I’m in San Diego (Mission Bay) for a conference this week. Based on the sad state of the menu at lunch (stumped at the notion of someone not eating chicken, they struggled to find an alternative and ended up serving the spaghetti from the kids menu, I think), I ventured down to Ocean Beach and…
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VegSXSW, Retweeter
I’m at the airport getting ready to board for SXSW. If you’re going to be at SXSW (interactive), or in Austin March 6th-12th, check out VegSXSW on Twitter or at VegSXSW.org. I’ve set up VegSXSW on twitter so that it scans the tweets for those it follows and retweets anything containing #vegsxsw hashtag. I’ve also…
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Zurich – Pot au vert
Last night I had dinner at Pot au vert, a vegetarian restaurant near the main train station (hauptbanhoff) in Zurich. Although the “menu card” (linked to the image) online is only available in German, as in most Swiss restaurants English menus are available and the waitstaff speak many languages (German, English, and French most often).…
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Thanksliving 2007
Yesterday was Thanksliving 2007 at the Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary. It was a fantastic event, which started with meeting three baby lambs recently arrived: We also toured around the farm and took some photos and met some animals before dinner began see the photoset at flickr. The menu was, as expected, absolutely fantastic, featuring food…
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New York, New Hotel
Last week I was in New York City for a couple of days on business. Unfortunately, all the hotels I normally stay in were either booked or askign absurdly high rates. Hotels.com turned up this Comfort Inn in what was described as Times Square which seemed ok, and was certainly cheap ($265 or so before…
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Thanksliving
The good folks at Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary hold a major event the weekend before the observance of Thanksgiving in the US. The basic idea is a major party where the Turkeys are the guests of honor rather than the main course: celebrating (and raising money for) compassion. In addition to the food (main dish…
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Windy City Vegan – Chicago Veggie Diner
Dinner last night was at Chicago’s famous Veggie Diner. The menu’s nicely varied – not too focused on the faux-meats, with a broad variety of dishes, as well as vegan organic wines and beers. We had a fabulous Sweet Potatoe Polenta cake appetizer, and I had a spicy Thai Tofu rice bowl with broccoli. Had…
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Vegan Open Source: VegGuide.org
I love this post from Dave Rolsky at Compassionate Action for Animals, in which he outlines the philosphy behind VegGuide.org and how it differs from competing national and local guides: The goal of the guide is provide a tool that helps makes it easier to live a more animal-friendly life. Specifically, we want to make…