September 8, 2021
Astoria’s Comfortland has some pretty gluttonous vegan fare on their omni menu. And that is exactly what I needed. Here, the next offering of New York City’s fantastic vegan sandwich options: The Freaken Vegan. But first, their adorable signage and outdoor space. The Freaken Vegan is a double-decker of crispy Read more…
August 20, 2021
Jmart in Bensonhurst, like many Asian grocers, has a plethora of vegan items within its aisles. To follow, a pictorial to remind myself to go back and experiment often. What I got…
August 2, 2021
Peach & Pine Cafe is some of the best vegan food in the NYC area… but they’re on Long Island, throwing down impressive pop-ups in Suffolk county with their new food truck. On a day with a packed Long Island itinerary, getting to their BBQ pop-up at North Fork Brewery Read more…
July 17, 2021
Blazing a quick trail to West Virginia, I knew I would be picking up some seitan wings from Mountaineer Tap House to help settle me into my hotel. I was pleased to learn that they had just created a vegan ranch to accompany the seitan wigs and I’d be one Read more…
July 10, 2021
The Hollow Bar & Kitchen serves up some seitan wings, along with other vegan options, at their happening space in downtown Albany, NY. So I had to partake after a day of driving. The seitan comes from Halo Vegan Food Company, a wholesale supplier of vegan “meats.” Though they do Read more…
March 25, 2021
I’ve got a lot more energy since work is remote again because of a Covid cluster. So I ventured all the way out to Sunnyside, Queens for some vegan food, then walked to the Long Island City waterfront to take the ferry all the way back home. The coming of Read more…
February 3, 2021
Vegan options in my own neighborhood are pretty exciting. When I heard of Bay Ridge’s Louie’s Gyros‘ partnership with Staten Island’s Vodega, I knew I’d be strolling on down to try the vegan version of their gyro. Because this is an authentic Greek joint… not a vegan joint trying its Read more…
February 1, 2021
If you are a longtime reader you may know that certain vegan options get me more excited than others. For one, vegan options that are made from scratch. Vegan options on Long Island, where I suffered through a dearth of options when I first went vegan more than 20 years Read more…
January 7, 2021
As we enter 2021 still within this health crisis, still within political insanity, the Scenes continue! Freshly testing out of a quarantine, to follow are Scenes from several quarantines past, in-between negative Covid tests… the ones before seeing my family for both Thanksgiving and Christmas, as well as after my Read more…
January 2, 2021
Wynwood, Miami is a bit of a thing. It’s an Art District showcasing some pretty spectacular graffiti murals, “good vibes” (i.e. the smell of mary jane), and lots of hip eateries and shops. So that means a ton of people: not my favorite thing. π But that is where Charley’s Read more…
December 17, 2020
Using up my produce makes up a good amount of my home to-do’s. This week, some of the scratch-made seitan loaves would find delicious partnership with the contents of my fruit and vegetable bowls: apples, pears and the gnarly bulbous celeriac… or celery root. Perhaps you’ve seen these beauties in Read more…
December 2, 2020
I have been experiencing very specific cravings for loaded potato bar food: tater tots and potato skins. And because I like to make myself happy, I devoted my day to satiating this hankering. Starting with making my own seitan… As I have begun pantry turnover, I had to improvise some Read more…
November 24, 2020
I don’t know how it is possible after years and years of blogging that I don’t have more πΎπππππ puns on here! In fact the only one I could find was a two-sentence post that was referencing The White Stripes album… in 2007. So now, a post totally dedicated to Read more…
September 4, 2020
Was shocking to see, as I consulted my archives, that I had first visited Tula Kitchen 10 years ago. This eclectic fine dining eatery in Bay Shore, Long Island has long acknowledged the value of offering a variety of veggie dishes, allowing vegans and their omnivorous friends the chance to Read more…
August 26, 2020
No Butcher has been high on my list as is any all-vegan eatery that makes its own vegan meats and cheeses–not just putting condiments on Beyond or Impossible Burgers.Β Plus, a drive thru!Β Perfect for a gal on the road. I got the Hawaiian Rib sammy which offered me hearty Read more…
July 17, 2020
As soon as I heard the Renegades of Sunset were back, open for take-out at Industry City, a visit went to the top of my list. In my head and in my belly I was making the pilgrimage for the beloved Fried Chicken Sandwich. (You remember? The winner of my Read more…
July 11, 2020
Exploring more vegan Caribbean offerings, I made it back to Crown Heights for the mostly vegan Ital Kitchen. Before my eats, the Tumerical Tings–a pressed juice packed with turmeric, lemon, ginger, and, thankfully not a lot of apples. I like my juice to kick me in the arse. And my Read more…
February 20, 2020
A vegan fried chicken joint in Santa Ana would definitely be on my must-visit list. Eat Love was part of my Los Angeles fried chicken brackets, a competition that would be an impossibility during my trip unfortunately. And though I plan on completing it at a later date during another Read more…
December 30, 2019
Visiting the Rockaways off-season you get a better sense of its lure. The folks who live in this area have created a very special community, a community that one might believe they’d need to move far from New York City to obtain. It was my privilege to spend the afternoon Read more…
December 21, 2019
I am pleased to present to you Battle 10! And to its victor–an enthusiastic welcome to the Championship Round, the last Battle of The Vegan Victuals Fried Chicken Showdown. It has been a spectacular run. Reviewing the brackets, I am confident that the final battle has two of the bests Read more…
November 27, 2019
With this Battle 8, the semi-finals are officially set! Are you as excited as I am? I feel really great about the state of these brackets, but I don’t look forward having to ultimately eliminate 3 of the 4 semi-finalist fried chicken sandwiches. But let me slow my roll. Battle Read more…
November 18, 2019
My vegan fried chicken battle is raging on in the East Village! This battle determines who would be up against tofu masters Chickpea & Olive… and I like the direction of the semi-finals thus far. Perhaps the championship round will be a seitan vs. tofu battle! ….But I am getting Read more…
November 8, 2019
With an ever-growing field of vegan fried chicken at my fingertips, I made an addition to my brackets. I had to. After hearing the vegan fried chicken sandwich at Bushwick’s new all-vegan bar and event space Gradient was house made, I told my friend to meet me there… because unless Read more…
October 27, 2019
Since I began this competition, vegan fried chicken is definitely having its moment. With the βfirstβ vegan chicken shop now open in Los Angeles (says VegNews, to which I say: Hartbreakers), vegan chicken debuting at Kentucky Fried Chicken, and vegan fried chicken on Shark Tank, seems itβs the new βitβ Read more…
October 11, 2019
As I move into Round 2 of the Vegan Fried Chicken Showdown, I need to purge some chicken-y visits… and make the, I swear, final adjustment to the official brackets. Before creating my brackets, I did some preliminary research. Then, I hastily made half battle visits… visits I can no Read more…
September 26, 2019
Urban Vegan Kitchen, West VillageChick-un & Waffles I remember the first time I went to Urban Vegan Kitchen very crisply though it was in January 2017. I fled opportunistically from a teacher professional development class at the The Met because it was a disorganized shit show. It felt good to Read more…
