Looking forward to the opening of two new businesses in the Boston area catering to vegans: Sudo Shoes, due to open this summer this month in Porter Square, and True Bistro, a vegan restaurant coming to Teele Square.

Lots of (well-intentioned I’m sure) vegan and omnivore friends over the last month have sent me links to Quarrygirl’s investigative report on animal product ingredients in food purchased from self-declared vegan restaurants around LA (Operation Pancake). While I certainly share a desire to get what I order, and to have both menu descriptions and waitstaff knowledge accurate as to what [...]

A new entry in the “global vegan restaurant directory” category came to my attention late last week: More than Salad. While I appreciate the humor in the Terms of Service: I’m not sure I’d spend a ton of time entering reviews here over my favorite VegGuide, which clearly licenses its content for others to use under a permissive license as [...]

Via MARC comes an article in the Boston Herald’s Edge section on Grezzo, the new raw vegan restaurant: “Raw Energy: High priestess of ‘living food’ movement brings new eatery to North End” Grezzo Zucchini Canneloni (photo from Boston Herald article) From the article: Depending on the season, Grezzo patrons may enjoy dishes like coconut curried spring rolls, saffron infused butternut [...]

Last night I had dinner at Pot au vert, a vegetarian restaurant near the main train station (hauptbanhoff) in Zurich. Although the “menu card” (linked to the image) online is only available in German, as in most Swiss restaurants English menus are available and the waitstaff speak many languages (German, English, and French most often). Pot au vert isn’t a [...]

I love this post from Dave Rolsky at Compassionate Action for Animals, in which he outlines the philosphy behind VegGuide.org and how it differs from competing national and local guides: The goal of the guide is provide a tool that helps makes it easier to live a more animal-friendly life. Specifically, we want to make it easier for people to [...]

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 and Candle Cafe.

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 in Portland, I’ve been looking [...]

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. Watch the 360-degree panorama to [...]

After a few days in Kenmare, and having rounded the Berrea peninsula, we headed down to Kinsale. As you can see from the photos, Kinsale’s a harbor town, with a lively pub / restaurant scene. Like Bath, this was a place we could easily have stayed another day or two. (Maybe we should plan all our trips around harbors – [...]