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S.F. Has Fewer Vegetarians/Vegans Than Dallas? Living Social conducted a survey of 200 Living Social users in S.F., so yeah, probably not reliable.
By Jay Barmann
National Interest
Aug. 5, 2011
Vegetarian Jail Inmate Chose Starving Over Being Forced to Eat Animal Products Dave McDonald spent three months in a Marin County jail and was refused vegetarian meals on the grounds that he had no religious need for them.
By Jay Barmann
If a Vegan Made a Bucket List of Foods, Wouldn’t Bacon Make It On There? ’7x7’ creates a veg/vegan supplement to their Big Eat list, and it’s kind of sad.
By Jay Barmann
California Prisoners Launch Hunger Strike; Entenmann’s Adds Two Cents To Casey Inmates stand behind a hunger strike that started on Friday at Pelican Bay over inhumane conditions.
Mobile Slaughterhouse Gives Small, Local Farms a Leg Up; San Francisco Jails Plus: Chefs resort to making their own soft drinks and condiments to avoid high fructose corn syrup; and one expert argues that high food costs makes farming a cash crop, all in our morning news roundup.
Boston Mob Tours Spotlight Gangster Hangouts; Want to Get Rich? Become A Farmer! Plus San Francisco jails cater to vegan whims and more, all in our morning news round-up.
By Kara Baskin
Coming Soon
June 28, 2011
Vedge Wants to Be the Veggie Yin to Animal’s Meaty Yang The Horizons chef found inspiration for his next venture in a place you’d least expect.
By Collin Keefe
Rich Landau Is Happy About Closing Horizons Landau says he’s thrilled about closing his restaurant and eager to take the next step.
By Collin Keefe
Quote of the Day
June 8, 2011
The Vegan Black Metal Chef Keeps Things Simple Life, and food, should have focus and purpose, says the guy whose blog is called Vegan Black Metal Chef.
By Kara Baskin
Quote of the Day
June 1, 2011
Wait, Everyone Doesn’t Love Bacon? Death Cab for Cutie’s guitarist is immune to its charms.
By Kara Baskin
Temporary Closings
May 9, 2011
By Jay Barmann
Meritage Brings Back Vegan Tasting Menus The popular all-vegan menu will be served again every Tuesday.
High Tech Upgrades Are Coming to PA Farmers Markets; Vegans Fare Better as Food Plus: Twenty-five years after Chernobyl, sheep are still scanned for radiation; and inflation won’t spare the cost of pizza, all in our morning news roundup.
Foodievents
Apr. 19, 2011
Khyber Vegges Out With Vegan Cocktails Philly The monthly vegan and vegetarian party returns to the Khyber.
By Collin Keefe
Vegansaurus Kind of Ripped Us Off! The Vegansaurus Diet kind of reminds us of something…
By Jay Barmann
Horizon’s Celebrates St. Patrick’s Day With Vegan Dishes and Beer Passing on the corned beef and cabbage, Chef Landau is cooking up a meatless Irish feast.
By Collin Keefe
PHA Bilked Taxpayers For Thousands of Dollars For Lavish Meals; Troubled Plus: Vegan diets are bad for cats and dogs; and location-based social networking tools are becoming restaurants go-to marketing method, all in our morning news roundup.
Bring on the Oink Bits: See the Menu at Source, Opening Wednesday The menu reads a bit like “Old McDonald Had a Farm,” but you gotta have a gimmick, we suppose.
By Jay Barmann
The Other Critics
Feb. 10, 2011
Bauer Revisits Gather Only a Year Later, Gives It Same Rating He returns only to find the menu shorter, the service a little better, still: 2.5 stars.
By Jay Barmann
Vegan Wing Bowl: It’s Happening Tomorrow The Abbaye and Philly Roller Girls team up to give vegetarians and vegans the opportunity to get in on the ridiculousness of the city’s annual chicken wing eating contest.
By Collin Keefe
Larkin’s Embraces Vegan Soul After all, someone has to counter the damage done at Spring Street Smokehouse’s upcoming rib-battle.
By Hadley Tomicki
Vegan Group Continues Hoodwinking Press Some people (in the press) still don’t get it.
By Jay Barmann
Vegans Cry Foul as Weird Fish Kills Off Popular Seitan Dish (Again) For the second time this year, Buffalo Girls are gone from the menu.
By Jay Barmann
The Other Critics
Dec. 27, 2010
By Collin Keefe
Empire Building
Dec. 17, 2010
Loving Hut Brings Its Vegan Teachings to Inner Sunset This will be the vegan restaurant’s third S.F. location.
By Jay Barmann
Biggest Loser Salad Dressing Draws Mislabeling Lawsuit; Claim JumperGaleos, makers of a miso caesar dressing, are accused of masking the calorie content, while a bankrupt restaurant fails to protect its employees as well as it does its French onion soup.
900 Gram Truffle Sold for $142,653; Andre Ethier Helps Donate Food To Union A chef in Hong Kong will make a meal around the prized truffle, while the Dodgers player teams up with Farmer John for a record meat donation.
The Other Critics
Nov. 12, 2010
By Kara Baskin
Mooi Struggles to Avoid Closure The owner is seeking investors while cutting back to one day a week service.
By Hadley Tomicki
Meritage’s Vegan Tasting Menu Gets the Autumnal Treatment Along with updating the restaurant’s a la carte menu, Anne Coll puts a new seasonal spin on the weekly vegan tasting menu too.
By Collin Keefe
First Look at V-Note, the Upper East Side’s New Vegan Wine Bar Ronen Seri of Blossom brings you vegan risotto and biodynamic wines.
By Daniel Maurer
The Other Critics
Oct. 4, 2010
By Collin Keefe
Busta Rhymes Accused of Hurling Bottle at Mr. Chow; Kid Rock Pays For Waffle Two rap performers are dealing with the aftermath of misbehaving in restaurants.
Financial Woes
Sept. 13, 2010
The Trouble With Organic Restaurants Amanda Cohen on the pitfalls of operating a vegan restaurant.
By Daniel Maurer
Rainbow Grocery Customers Losing Their Vegan Minds Over Loss of Midweek Mission Local suggests “avoiding Rainbow like the plague” Tuesday through Thursday through the end of the month.
By Jay Barmann
Grindcore Opens in Pennsport: Get your Nondairy Milk! Grindcore brings cool art and coconut milk to Philly.
By Hannah Howard
As One Vegan Girl Can Attest, Vegan Boys Are The Worst A fun little ditty from one vegan girl to her potential vegan suitors.
By Jay Barmann
Empire Building
Aug. 17, 2010
Blossom’s Vegan Empire Expands Yet Again With Blossom Du Jour The “shrewd fast food” spot will serve burgers, salads, and vegan soft-serve.
By Helen Rosner
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