vegansaurus!
09/09/2011
Daniel Patterson continues to be our city’s greatest chef! No, that is a lie, he still cooks and eats animal products, and I just don’t see how you can be the very best if you’re not vegan. But he is seriously amazing. He loves vegetables, and made this amazing soup (some of us have dreams about that soup), and honestly we could watch him make these beet roses all day. Never mind eating them, just watching him do it.
It’s fascinating in the way those Sesame Street segments about how things get made are—the one about crayons is one of the best things I have ever seen in my life. Those cheerful employees are most likely unemployed/dead now, replaced by robots/Mexican workers paid less than $1 a day. American progress!
But, Daniel Patterson, he’s just wonderful. He gave a really interesting two-part interview (1, 2) to Eater, which you should definitely read. This beet rose, holy cow, it’s so deliberate and painstaking and turns out so beautiful, it makes me tear up. I don’t even like beets! This is why restaurants. This is why “vegetable cuisine.”
∞ posted at 09:20 by seriousmeaveness 
10/05/2010
Take me to Plum right now! »
Grub Street SF got lots of pretty pictures of the dishes on Plum’s menu, and oh happy day!, even without our beloved vegetable chef, there are a number of vegetable-friendly items. For example, this beautiful soup!
Mushroom Dashi with yuba, tofu, and greens
Doesn’t it look lovely? Oh PLUM. Oh Daniel Patterson, you wonderful man with your wonderful vegetables. Look at this menu! I count about nine other dishes with vegan potential.
A proper review with your Vegansaurus’ signature underlit photos and totally relevant digressions coming up soon! Please excuse us today, we are having “technical issues.”
[photo by Brian Smeets/Grub Street]
∞ posted at 09:05 by seriousmeaveness
04/29/2010
» Ubuntu's new chefs still creating "vegetable cuisine"
Good news, everyone! Ubuntu is still open, and still making food without meat. Dairy, yes, but featuring vegetables, just like produce hero Jeremy Fox. No word on its quality as compared to the previous kitchen’s work, but chef Aaron London and pastry chef Carl Swanson trained under Jeremy and Deanie Fox, so the food should be in the same style. It sounds like the Napa Valley Register ate pretty well, anyway.
Your Vegansaurus was at Ubuntu on Saturday, though failed to take pictures because WHAT THE HELL, STEVE, and reports that although there were no chickpea fries (oh the humanity), “the food was excellent. Yes, some dairy, but most of the menu was vegan or can-be-vegan.” If any wonderful readers want to send us a report/photos/juicy gossip, please feel free!
Pro tip: if you happen to show up tipsy from your earlier wine-tasting, don’t tell the hostess!
∞ posted at 09:12 by time-for-naps 
