October 2008
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Friday vegan blog link-o-rama!
1. A whole blog dedicated to vegan cookies. Cookies are delicious and so this blog is BRILLIANT!
2. Vegan Soapbox asks an always interesting question for the omnivores in the house (i.e., me!). “If I care about animals, but still eat animal products, isn’t it better to buy “humane” animal products?” 3. Ezra Klein talks about tofu. We love Ezra Klein. 4. Farmer in Chief, by Michael Pollan....
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Review: Golden Era Vegetarian Restaurant
Golden Era is the original Supreme Master Ching Hai enterprise restaurant in San Francisco. Nearly every item on the menu is vegan; the mock meats are the delicious, mysterious kinds made of fungus and gluten and some such; and the menu is longer than a tabloid. That said, I will try to be brief.
Lettuce wraps = ¡muy delicioso! House rice clay pot = ¡muy delicioso! Wonton soup = ¡muy delicioso!...
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Review: Mission Street Food cart!
Mission Street Food is a most delicious little cart that sets up once a week (details below) to serve you some of the most delicious flat bread sandwiches ever known to man (me + you) or beast (i’ll get to this later). There are three sandwich selections—I expect they’ll expand the menu and maybe even how many nights a week they are out there based on the popularity of their...
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Review: El Farolito!
I believe this is the best burrito in San Francisco. This is, of course, a hotly debated topic and honestly, I don’t care what anyone else has to say, they’re all a bunch of fucking morons. El Farolito is the best, even if it comes with a side of hep C. And it does. Seriously, this place is not the cleanest. AND WHATEVER YOU DO, DO NOT USE THE BATHROOM. I can’t say anything more...
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Review: Crocker Galleria farmers market!
Farmers Market Thursdays can make a work-week. The Crocker is attached to the Hunter Dulin building, a.k.a 111 Sutter (one of the most beautiful buildings in the city, incidentally), which makes it ridiculously convenient for the suits on the West Coast Wall Street, and because it’s so small, the nice vendors don’t have to make much of an effort to get to know you. The people I used...
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Product review: Purely Decadent Coconut Ice Cream!
Look at that picture! There was delicious vegan ice cream inside the coconuts all along, and it took the geniuses who work at Purely Decadent on faraway Turtle Mountain to discover it!
These guys are so smart! They cornered the market on vegan cookie dough ice cream before anybody else. Seriously, this is probably my most wished-for ice cream flavor ever, and it is such a no-brainer! Why did it...
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Review: Baladie Gourmet Cafe
The lentil soup at Baladie is one of the best deals in the Financial District. A mere $3.25 for 16 ounces of delicious, hearty, spicy-if-you-want-it vegan lentil soup, plus toasted pitas, should you care for them. You know what you get for $3.25 at the wretched San Francisco Soup Company? NOTHING.
I had falafel in a pita once and it was all right; the hummus was good but the actual falafels were...
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Review: Bi-Rite Creamery!
Bi-Rite Creamery is so fucking good that I ate here twice the other day. I got one scoop of delicious raspberry soy cream—they always have one and sometimes two flavors of soy cream, in addition to a few sorbets and AMAZING popsicles in flavors such as pineapple mint and satsuma tangerine—and ate it on my walk home, got home, took off my pants (don’t ask), was like, “Fuck...
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Review: Club Waziema!
Club Waziema is my favorite Ethiopian restaurant in San Francisco. Not so much because it’s autentico (I stole that from Jonas, I believe it’s Mexican for “authentic”) but because it’s delicious food in a fun space (dive bar meets whorehouse. See: the ridiculously wonderful and sexy wallpaper) and it’s super-cheap and there is an excellent jukebox. Oh and...
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Vegan October Beerfest! →
Vegansaurus Weekend Edition!
Poking around my RSS feeds, I have found a new blog (thanks to the addition of Vegan MoFo to my reader, I now have something like 1 million vegan blogs I am reading every day) that is very appropriate for your Saturday nights: Beer Is Vegan! Enjoy and hope you’re all having a wonderful weekend.
And don’t miss our favorite beverage directory, Barnivore, a...
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Friday vegan blog link-o-rama!
A tour through this week in vegan blogs:
1. The Obligatory Vegan Post—a sweet essay by someone who just started being vegan and is loving it,
2. Sabor de Soledad—is vegan!
3. Amazing Vegan Ice Cream—a blog with such flavors as Barack-y Road (a delicious vegan take on Rocky Road and a nod to our favorite candidate!) and Pumpkin (Pumpkin).
4. Vegan diet good for Type 2...
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Review: Sabra Grill!
You climb a narrow staircase to get in here, and the noise from Chinatown/FiDi/Union Square fades away. The walls are covered with Jewish and/or Israeli art/photography/iconography (the Dalí print is a highlight). The owner is a big, friendly, intimidating man. The last time I was there, the waiter’s yarmulke had Mario (as in, one of the Super Nintendo Brothers) embroidered on it.
Important...
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Review: Medjool!
Medjool is located in the fake Mission District. It’s where people from the Marina* come when they want to slum it in the scary, scary Mission. It’s pretentious and ridiculous (look at all those a-holes out front in the picture. What a bunch of a-holes) but they have a fair amount of vegan items on the menu—which is advertised as “more than a menu. It’s a cultural...
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Recipe: BBQ Pizza!
At Vegansaurus we talk a lot about restaurants, but even we can’t eat out every night (especially in these harrowing economic times, blah blah blah). A lot of vegan blogs tend to feature recipes like this or this, a LITTLE out of the reach of everyday eating. So from time to time we will post recipes that are, above all, easy, cheap, and creative, in addition to being delicious. This recipe...
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Review: Ali Baba's Cave!
OK, what genius/saint thought it smart to grind, spice and fry chickpeas into little fried balls of perfection? I’d like to shake that man’s hand and then possibly simulate oral sex on his fingers. Was this man Jesus himself? I’m not one to speculate on whether or not Jesus invented falafel balls but whoever did most likely can do other crazy shit like turn water into wine and...
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Review: Weird Fish!
Weird Fish. OK. First, their mascot is a fat mermaid. DOPE. Second, they have lots of vegan options, including vegan fish and chips (made with either tofu or tempeh!) on a bed of regular and sweet potato fries, seitan buffalo wings (WHAT) and deep-fried green beans (WHAT) and pickles (WHAT) with vegan dipping sauce (WHAT) and c) THEIR MASCOT IS A FAT MERMAID. I love me a fat mermaid. I want this...
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Lunchtime Poll: What's the best vegan sandwich in...
As I eat a very mediocre veg sandwich from a local sandwich shop (at least it has avocado and they toasted the bread, sigh), I must ponder, what are the best vegan sandwiches in town? Off the top of my head, I can think of two:
1. Ike’s—which we have covered before and I think is currently the San Francisco sandwich king!
2. Love & Haight—their veggie chicken steak with...
