Tag: vegetarian

  • Windy City Vegan – Chicago Veggie Diner

    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…

  • Vegan New York – Candle Cafe, Gobo

    Vegan New York – Candle Cafe, Gobo

    So I’ve fallen way behind in writing up good vegan restaurants I run into on my travels. Luckily no ones had trouble finding good vegan grub in Manhattan in the last 20 years (if you ever do, just head over to SuperVegan or vegguide) but a few bright spots in my recent experience are Gobo…

  • Too Chicken to Go Vegetarian? NY Times article on vegetarianism and climate change

    Too Chicken to Go Vegetarian? NY Times article on vegetarianism and climate change

    Good article in today’s NY Times by Claudia Deutsch: “Trying to Connect the Dinner Plate to Climate Change” Includes very prominently one of PETA‘s new ads: The article talks about the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization report “stating that the livestock business generates more greenhouse gas emissions than all forms of transportation combined” as…

  • MyThai Vegetarian Café and Bubble Tea Bistro

    Formerly Buddha’s Delight Too, My Thai Café and Bubble Tea Bistro is an all vegetarian restaurant in Broookline, on Harvard Street, outside Coolidge Corner (toward Brighton). (404 Harvard St., Brookline MA) I had dinner there last week as part of a Boston Vegetarian Society / Boston Vegan Meetup meeting.Since Raven introduced me to Bubble Tea…

  • Lunch at Veganopolis – Portland

    Lunch at Veganopolis – Portland

    Took the opportunity to flee the Oregon Convention Center at lunch today and head over to Veganopolis for lunch. Just a few short MAX stops from the convention center, and with a vegan lunch buffet.

  • Veggie Guide to Portland (Yahoo Pipe)

    Veggie Guide to Portland (Yahoo Pipe)

    Next week I will be in Portland, OR for OSCON 2007. I know there’s a lot of great vegan and vegan-friendly restaurants and stores there, but I don’t have a sense of where they are, and couldn’t find a good map-based guide. VegGuide.org makes a listing of restaurants and stores in the Portland area available…

  • Vegan London, continued – Blue Elephant

    Vegan London, continued – Blue Elephant

    On our last night in London, we made our way over to Fulham for Blue Elephant Royal Thai Cuisine. It’s in a very unassuming part of Fulham, near the Fulham-Broadway tube station (map). It’s a dark, low building and you can’t really see any of the interior from outside. Inside, it’s a whole different world.…

  • Vegan London – Mildred’s in Soho

    Vegan London – Mildred’s in Soho

    While in London (photos here) we had dinner at a local institution – Mildreds in Soho, a vegetarian restaurant for the last 17 years. We knew right away dinner was going to be great – the lines waiting for tables were flowing well out into the street. (Image via Ewan Munro via CC-BY: https://www.flickr.com/photos/55935853@N00/2254351187 )…

  • Positively Vegetarian – DeMuths, in Bath

    We spent a night in Bath, on our way to Bristol airport to fly over to Dublin. Bath’s a great town – we could have spent another couple of days there easily. We had dinner at Demuth’s Vegetarian Restaurant, whose owners . . . aim to make Demuths the best vegetarian restaurant in the south…

  • Vegan Wasington DC

    Vegan Wasington DC

    I was in DC the other day on business, and had an hour to grab lunch near the Georgetown area. I don’t really know Washington DC well, but fired up the web browser on my phone and found Veg DC – a great site with information on restaurants, grocery stores, and other organizations in the…

  • Vegan Cotswolds

    Vegan Cotswolds

    My wife and I recently spend a week and a half in the UK and Ireland. This post is the first in a series about the vegan goodness we found on our trip – hope it helps other travellers. Our trip started essentially in the Cotswolds (photos here), a region west of London, more or…

  • Wagamama in Boston!

    Wagamama in Boston!

    I guess I’m a bit behind in reporting this, since they opened back in April 2007, but Wagamama has a Boston location at Fanueil Hall! (There’s a map on their site, but basically they are at the east end of the main Quincy market building, where I believe a Rustic Kitchen used to be). This…

  • Harvard Philosophy: Facing Animals

    Full video from a panel at Harvard on April 24th, 2007.

  • More food options in NY

    Not all vegan (or even all vegetarian!) but with some veg-friendly options. I’ve been staying alot over the last month or so in the midtown-west / clinton / hell’s kitchen area – basically west of Penn Station / Times Square. 1. At 42nd Street and Ninth Avenue there is a Better Burger. They deliver ($10…

  • They eat what?

    Excellent article from the Union of Concerned Scientists about factory farming, and what the industry calls CAFOs – confined animal feeding operations: “The Reality of Feed at Animal Factories” Specifically, they focus on what “food animals” are fed inside animal factories. If you are what you eat, I think the corollary should be that you…

  • Vegetarian Kosher Indian – Pongal

    Vegetarian Kosher Indian – Pongal

    In Manhattan this week for a few meetings, I got a chance to try a new place. Pongal, at 110 Lexington Ave in midtown (map), is a vegetarian, kosher, Indian restaurant. (There are four or five kosher, vegetarian Indian restaurants in between 27th and 28th on Lexington). The menu‘s online – the Alu Gobi was…

  • Angelica Kitchen, New York, NY

    Angelica Kitchen, New York, NY

    So last week I was in Manhattan for the day, and convinced my non-vegan colleague Brian to lunch with me at Angelica Kitchen in the East Village (300 E. 12th Street) (Sorry for the glare in the photo – sunny day in NY even if quite cold).

  • Stop Global Warming: Eat Vegetables

    I’m often asked whether I’m a vegetarian because of ethical concerns about the treatment of animals (i.e., that we kill them) or for health reasons (because, I suppose you could argue, the animals humans eat kill us). The easy answer is yes. And also for environmental reasons. That’s the one people don’t even think to…