Dining Link Archive
California
Los Angeles
Meanwhile, in her coverage Los Angeles’s “Happy Hour Week,” Jenn Harris of the LA Times tells readers “Where to get the best bang for your buck.” One of the spots is vegan Mexican restaurant Gracias Madre. Click here.
Colorado
Denver
WaterCourse Foods is an all-vegan restaurant. (It opened in 1998 as an all-vegetarian restaurant.) Click here.
District of Columbia
The Equinox Restaurant —located in Washington, D.C. —is not exclusively vegetarian but The Washington Post’s Tom Sietsema called the restaurant’s vegan tasting menu “beautiful and bountiful.” Equinox also has a vegan brunch and a vegan smackdown. Click here.
Florida
Miami
The Federal restaurant on Miami’s Biscayne Boulevard, is launching a vegan and vegetarian menu for three months. Miami New Times reporter Hannah Sentenac spoke with Federal chef Cesar Zapata about this move. Click here.
New York
New York
Huffington Post’s veggiebuzz.com reports on vegetarian tasting menus at seven posh New York City restaurants. They include Per Se and Eleven Madison Park. (Actually one eatery is in Westchester.) Click here.
Ohio
Cleveland
Cleveland Plain Dealer’s Debbi Snook tells readers about five vegetarian-friendly, vegan-friendly area restaurants. One even offers chicken-fried cauliflower. Click here.
Oregon
Beaverton
La Vida Veggie in Beaverton (OR) serves Mexican cuisine, reports Wendy Owen of The Oregonian/OregonLive. For example, there’s the walnut meat taco. It’s enhanced with citrus-accented cashew cream, pickled cabbage, pico de gallo and guacamole. For more information, click here.
Pennsylvania
Philadelophia
Philly.com food writer Michael Klein spotlights the reopening of the Triangle Tavern. A familiar Philadelphia haunt after prohibition died. It essentially shuttered its doors in 2008. We’re talking about it because the renewed Triangle’s menu includes several vegan choices including vegan “roast beef.” Click here.
Texas
Houston
Houston Community Newspapers reports that Texas chain Freebird World Burritos now offers a vegan option -- the Tempeh Calabacita. Read all about it here.
Ireland
Winter was approaching. Fiona O’Connell (columnist for the Irish Independent) was looking for some comfort food. A vegetarian, she hoped for something other than pasta with tomato sauce or the perfunctory “vegetarian option.” And then she came across Chef Helen Costelloe and the Watergarden Café in Thomastown, County Kilkenny. [Read here]