[net.veg] Veggie Restaurants

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and out of date.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
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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
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