April 6, 2024
So Charlotte has a lot of vegan food options… and though I am trying to stick to a budget, I will be sampling some during my time here–starting with Romeo’s Vegan Burgers, an all-vegan burger joint complete with a drive thru! The signage and the repurposing of an old fast Read more…
May 16, 2021
The Bodega is an important comunity space… maybe most so in The Bronx more than any other borough. And Plantega is on a mission to stock bodegas with all-vegan foods and extend their menus to include vegan versions of bodega grill classics. On my day trip to The Bronx, I Read more…
April 16, 2021
File this under lowbrow, Dairy Queen has a non-dairy option. Sure, the packaged chocolate-covered “Dilly Bar” is not all that exciting an option… but it’s a pretty clear indicator of vegan options spreading far and wide. Dorking it up, non-dairy style. And it’s got the V-word right there on the Read more…
October 23, 2020
When I first went vegetarian at 15, I worked at Burger King. Next door was a Taco Bell… and that is where I would get my lunch. With early veg options (A 7-Layer Burrito with no cheese or sour cream was my go-to.), you’d think that options would have improved Read more…
June 12, 2019
VegNews likes to post kooky articles on April Fools Day. And last year’s selection was about KFC launching a vegan chicken bucket. Flash forward only a year or so and it is actually on the horizon. But really now, if I had to choose between a bucket from all-vegan Modern Read more…
May 13, 2018
When you’re late for the Mother’s Day soirée you best bring a sack of White Castle! Well, this may be my new go-to move. My family got to feast on the new Impossible Slider, now available in all New York and New Jersey White Castles. Oh, and I got to Read more…
April 28, 2018
On a day of driving back and forth from Brooklyn to Manhattan, it was lunch in Manhattan, hitting up one of the Shake Shack locations to offer the new Veggie Shack! The Astor Place location. It’s cash-free and you order at a kiosk. Don’t forget to “uncheck” the cheese on Read more…
May 4, 2017
Ok, I don’t make a big deal out of fast food… but White Castle now has two, yes two, vegan slider options. Vegan buns, separate grill–no worries. So I visited the White Castle in Lynbrook for lunch. Stepping into a White Castle is sociologically interesting. It is like stepping into a Read more…
August 11, 2015
The Burger Showdown continues with the first Brooklyn showdown: Toad Style vs. Champs Family Diner Just when my burger brackets were set, along comes Toad Style‘s all-vegan menu, batting its housemade cheese and sage butter and lime aioli. Those kinds of words indicate an eatery who not only make but love food. Throw Read more…
July 30, 2015
Ok, so I hadn’t realized I reported on so many of NYC’s veggie burgers until I counted them on my blog: 40 burgers! But times have changed since 2010 when I set out on a mission to find the best one (reporting briefly on 36 of them), then vaguely declared as Read more…
January 17, 2015
Who would have ever thought that White Castle, purveyor of sacks of itty bitty beef sliders, would offer its customers a Veggie Slider, an old school veggie burger from Dr. Praeger, king of the visible veggies veggie burger? Now, I have never really loved a Dr. Praeger’s patty, but I appreciated its Read more…
December 16, 2014
Sometimes you leave your neighborhood and do things in “The City.” Other times you drive in, illegally park next to the things you want to do quickly, without hullabaloo, and get the heck outta Dodge. That is how I feel about Manhattan these days. You know when 14th street opens Read more…
August 8, 2012
Planning this trip, an extravagant foodie frenzy of all the west coast vegan eats I have craved and bookmarked through the years, was a bit overwhelming. Time is sometimes a cruel thing… time and the whole getting full thing. With so much to eat in so little time, planning our Read more…
August 7, 2010
I made another visit to Citi Field recently, still pickled blue and orange that I can enjoy a hot dog and a beer and watch the game. Though I had originally intended to supplement my Vegan at Citi Field report from June with some information on the stand-alone booths (zeppole, Read more…
June 29, 2010
As a young doe who read E Magazine and poured over Co-op America‘s Green Pages some 17 years ago, I can’t help but be partially frustrated by the speed in which the rest of the world has caught on to the green movement, can’t help but shudder at the greenwashing Read more…