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07/29/2011
Melissa Vegenista loves LoveLikeBeer: San Diego’s vegan beer scene becoming a real thing »
Our pal Melissa the Vegenista loves her vegan food! And her beer pairings! Just like your Vegansaurus, only she lives in beautiful, sunny, beachy San Diego, while we have to wait until fall for our perfect summery weather.
However, beer goes with basically everything, and there’s nothing more charming than beer pairings with fancy, tasty vegan food. Check out Melissa’s photos from Vegan Beer Night II, including this one of the grilled chiote marinated tofu, Suzie’s Farm Hungarian pepper stuffed with Chino corn risotto, Crow’s Pass Farm potatoes, and chimichurri Sauce:
She calls it “one of the most beautifully presented dishes I’ve ever seen…. [I]t was certainly as delicious to the palate as it was stunning to the eyes!” it does look amazing!
For a full review with loads more photos and information, check out Vegenista. GodDAMN I want an automatic coffee coconut wheat beer, like really a lot.
Way to go, San Diego! And thanks, Melissa, for the update!
[all photos by Melissa via Vegenista]
∞ posted at 09:35 by seriousmeaveness 
07/21/2011
» Vegenista interviews LoveLikeBeer!
Vegan beer-and-food events San Diego! We have another reason to envy San Diego!
Here’s an excerpt from the interview, which you should go read:
Vegenista: Both your first event and your upcoming event are at non-vegan restaurants. What has been the typical response from the chefs when you’ve approached them about doing an all-vegan menu?
LoveLikeBeer: The chefs are looking at it as an inspiring and challenging project and couldn’t be more excited about cooking a completely vegan menu. They take their typical vision for the restaurant and then turn it vegan, which is really cool and interesting. Most of the restaurants we work with, while still serving non-vegan food, already had very good vegan options though, so it wasn’t like starting from scratch.
Neat, right? And the next event, happening on Tuesday, July 26, will feature “’Coconut Wheat Beer,’ [which[ will be a lighter bodied beer with a coffee-coconut flavor that you’d typically see in darker beers like porters or stouts.” Uh, YES PLEASE. Where are our beer-and-food events, Bay Area?
∞ posted at 08:01 by seriousmeaveness
