keithl@vice.UUCP (Keith Lofstrom) (01/27/84)
(resubmitted... our news connection was gunnysack...) How about vegetarian restaurants? I'm not talking about the quiche and salad places, or the counters at the health food stores, but places that serve sit-down vegetarian dinners among their selections. There are restaurant guides, but they are often incorrect and out of date. Let's get together our own restaurant guide! I'll start out with a few: key: 0-9 food quality V - "pure" veggie N - "natural" food, restaurant serves meat dishes too. R - regular restaurant with a large vegetarian menu. $ cheap (0-$6), $$ moderate ($6-$15), $$$ expensive ($15-) *Portland, OR Food Goddess SW Morrison & 13th 5 V $ Old Wives Tales E. Burnside & 13th 6 N $$ Zorba the Buddha (Rajneesh) SW Park and Salmon 4 V $$ La Casa De Rios SE Hawthorne & 35th 5 R $ *Eugene, OR Mother's Home Fried Truck Stop (west of UO) 5 N $ *Seattle, WA Sunlight Cafe 6034 Roosevelt (near UW) ? N ? *San Francisco, CA Green's Fort Mason 9 V $$ Dipti Nivas Church & Market 6 V $ Cafe Jaqueline (Souffle!!!) North Beach? 9 R $$ *NYC Arnold's Turtle Village 6 N $$ Brownies N. of Union Square 6 V $$ Ultimate Lotus (Cantonese) Midtown East 7 R $$ Ratner's (Dairy) Delancy St. 6 V $ + about 40 others whose names I forget... *Everywhere (chains) The Good Earth 5 N $$ Golden Temple (Krishnas) 3 V $ Of course, no one should use a list like this without checking the phone book, and calling first. Additions? Subtractions? Corrections? Send to the net, but I'll be building a directory... -- Keith Lofstrom uucp: {ucbvax,decvax,chico,pur-ee,cbosg,ihnss}!teklabs!vice!keithl CSnet: keithl@tek ARPAnet:keithl.tek@rand-relay
bhaskar@fluke.UUCP (02/15/84)
I have rarely had problems finding ovo-lacto vegetarian food anywhere in the US (only in Minneapolis have I encounter a place where they would not even give me a salad or an omelette). I am not implying that I am satisfied by a leaf of lettuce or a fried yolk -- only that I have gone hungry only once in four years of strict vegetarianism. But starvation aside, I rarely have problems finding a reasonable selection of food even though I eat out every day. I eat mostly at hole-in-the-wall ethnic restaurants, and can always ask for something vegetarian not on the menu -- I know enough about different cuisines to suggest things they can fix me that are not on the menu. Of course, there are some cuisines to avoid: the (North & South) American and West European ones being the primary culprits -- even Mexican is occasionally a tough one, since lard is popular. Perhaps I have been spoiled by living in Seattle!!! Anyway, rather than list the good restaurants here, I hereby offer to make recommendations to anyone who plans to visit our backwaters... (I wish we had a seattle.restaurants newsgroup.) A noteworthy place: Lotus Garden in San Francisco Chinatown. It is a 100% vegetarian Chinese restaurant (they're Taoists) with a multi-page menu of delicious food. -- Bhaskar {allegra,lbl-csam,microsoft,sb1,uw-beaver}!fluke!bhaskar