Vegan Guide to Michelin Restaurants: Asador Extebarri in Axpe, Spain
*This post is part of a series in which I eat fancy Michelin-starred meals and then brag about it. In a tiny town 30 minutes outside Bilbao, Spain stands a little cottage where wood-fired magic...
View ArticleDishoom: London's Hippest Restaurant Pretty Good For Vegans
Not that I'm an expert on what the cool kids are up to, but when a restaurant is a) in Shoreditch and b) has at least an hour wait even on a Tuesday evening, I'm pretty confident in calling it...
View ArticleBrilliant Corners, London: Wonderful Japanese Food, Weird Name, Atrocious...
If you know England at all, and you hear me say "this restaurant has bad service," you probably think, "well yeah, you said it was in England, right?" It's common here (maybe because people make a...
View ArticleEating in Madrid, Spain: All-Vegan Bar Food at B13
In our short time in Madrid, we weren't able to hit all the vegan spots I put on my list. (I was saving my food-tour kind of living for Austin.) Adding to the struggle was that we found at least two...
View ArticleVegan Guide to Michelin Restaurants: Ramon Freixa in Madrid, Spain
*This post is part of a series in which I eat fancy Michelin-starred meals and then brag about it. When we spent a weekend in Madrid this year, Husband surprised me with a reservation for lunch at...
View ArticleGrain Store Unleashed: Poss Best Pop-Up Restaurant Ever
Not that I've been to many pop-up restaurants (have I?) or other things cool people do, but even so I'm pretty sure Grain Store Unleashed ranks towards the top. First of all, they have an all-vegan...
View ArticleThe Best Restaurant in London Is Almost A Secret
I get an email from various London 'news' roundups at least every week, no matter how often I mark TimeOut as the spam that it is, boasting that they found, yet again, the best restaurants in...
View ArticleVegan Guide to Michelin Restaurants: De Librije in Zwolle, Holland
*This post is part of a series in which I eat fancy Michelin-starred meals and then brag about it. Recently, we took a 45-minute flight to Amsterdam, city of canals and bicycles. But instead of...
View ArticleVegan Nigerian Pop-Up Dinner in London: One to Watch
There’s an exciting new pop-up to look out for, London! The Vegan Nigerian, a.k.a. Tomi Makanjuola, held her first vegan pop-up dinner last night at La Suite West Hotel in Bayswater, a.k.a. west AF...
View ArticleVegan Guide to Michelin Restaurants: Lyle's, London UK
*This post is part of a series in which I eat fancy Michelin-starred meals and then brag about it. Unlike all the other posts in this series, this meal was completely impromptu. On a recent Friday,...
View ArticleVegan Guide to Michelin Restaurants: The Clove Club, London, UK
*This post is part of a series in which I eat fancy Michelin-starred meals and then brag about it. Recently, Husband and I celebrated our second wedding anniversary! Although the traditional gift...
View ArticleTal Ronnen's Crossroads: The Best Fancy Vegan Meal In L.A.
Going into dinner at Crossroads, my first ever meal in Los Angeles, I was wary. I knew of Tal Ronnen, famous celebrity chef behind Oprah's 21-day vegan challenge and Ellen's wedding, and I was...
View ArticlePersepolis: Christmas Feast at London's Best Restaurant
When I say Persepolis, you say...! If anything comes to your mind along the lines of an ancient city or a graphic novel or a movie about a graphic novel before you think 'tiny magical resto-shoppe in...
View ArticleLondon's Best Vegan Mexican Food: Club Mexicana in Residency at Pamela
In the days leading up to our exciting reservations at Club Mexicana's residency at Pamela bar in Dalston, we were making our fair share of "PaMELah" jokes in the style of Borat, cultural guide in all...
View ArticleVegan Guide to Michelin Restaurants: Gauthier, Soho
*This post is part of a series in which I eat fancy Michelin-starred meals and then brag about it. Happy Valentines Day, everyone! Oh, Valentines Day is over, you say? Counter: Valentines Day is...
View ArticlePhilly's Newest Little Amazings: Wiz Kid & Goldie PLUS A RECIPE!
During my latest trip home to Philadelphia, PA (how far are theyyyy), I had just enough time to try two of the city's newest and best lunch-time offerings. Rich Landau's most informal restaurant yet,...
View ArticleJuice Merchant: Main Line Philly's Awesome New Vegan Restaurant
My recent trip home to Philly and NYC was jam-packed with new and delicious vegan food options, from the carrot lox at Orchard Grocer to Philly's amazing new joints Wiz Kid and Goldie. Add in all the...
View ArticleDinner at Plates: East London's Plant-Based Craze Gets Fancier
Dearly beloved, we're gathered here to discuss East London's relatively new fancy joint named Plates. I know, it's getting hard to keep up with all the new vegan dishes, stalls, and restaurants in...
View Article"Vegwells" Supper Club: Tredwells Joins the "Plant-based" Menu Craze in...
The renowned restaurant Tredwells, in the Seven Dials area of the West End (close to “Matilda”!), has joined the happy trend of mainstream restaurants doing special-night plant-based supper clubs. And...
View ArticleArt School Restaurant: Fine (in both senses of the word) Dining in Liverpool
When we visited Liverpool recently, we enjoyed a capital-L Lunch like the sort my girl Stritch would sing about at the Art School Restaurant, an upmarket place serving fancypants tasting menus. The...
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