Veganism

Mark Bittman's New Vegan Mantra Leaves Room for Play

Let's get one thing straight: Mark Bittman is not a vegan. The first thing he does, sitting down to breakfast at a beautifully curated vegan feast while on tour to promote his mostly-vegan eating manifesto, is demand some dairy. "What do you say we send this whole vegan thing to hell and get some ... More >>

Cult Classics: Vegetarian Restaurants With a Religious Philosophy

New Vegan Cooking Show, a Hero Chicken, and Down With Pork!

​ Good morrow, friends! Happy Meatless Monday! For your weekly food porn, I present German Chocolate Cake Rolls from Vegan Heartland! Hubba hubba: See Also: - The Year In Vegan! - Vegan Nutballs, Meat Sales Down, and Timeless Coffee Brings Vegan Goodness to Oakland - Peanut Brittle, Trader Joe's ... More >>

Vegan Big Mac, Space Veggies, and Happy Hellaween!

​You heard me, a vegan Big Mac! See? Just because you're vegan doesn't mean you can't eat crazy isht. This is America! You can eat any monstrosity you can come up with! See also: - Morrissey, Mike Vick, and a Very Happy Piggy! - James Cameron is Vegan, Chico State isn't, and These Ducks are the ... More >>

There's Arsenic in Your Rice, The Foie Gras Ban Stands, and Starbucks Says, "Screw You, Soy Lovers!"

​A vegan bakery has been on the horizon for a while now; Picnic Bakery is planning on opening a shop in Upper Haight. Excitement abounds! Laura and Meave at Vegansaurus got a chance to sample some of their desserts and they are totally in a tizzy about them on Vegansaurus. Apparently, you can star ... More >>

Usher Eats Vegan, Mickey D's Opens Veg Location, and Tater Tot Casserole Looks Lovely and Amazing!

​Guys, guys, guys--biggest news ever! R&B superstar Usher is eating vegan! And he wants the Biebs to go vegan too! I effing love Usher like whoa so I'm super pleased. Hopefully he will make the whole leap once he gets a little further into veganhood. And then JB will go vegan and make a line of ve ... More >>

Buy a Date With Ian Somerhalder, Don't Buy Monkeys, and People Won't Date Vegans!

​ Guys, don't buy monkeys. I know everybody wants to, we can't help it. I used to make up names for my future monkey and draw the awesome matching outfits we'd wear. But monkeys shouldn't be pets! Let's learn from Joey's story (btdubs, I think I love Stephen Fry, is that weird? Or is it like want ... More >>

Vegan Lemon Meringue Pie, New Sandwiches at Subway, and This Poor Fatty Hedgehog Can't Hibernate!

​Big news for you vegan pizza lovers! Vegan Pizza Day is Saturday, June 30th! I know Source is participating, Paxti's too. What a wonderful holiday that will be. It's like Christmas but instead of tinsel, you have shredded cheese substitute. All the way from Australia, Mr. Nice Guy Cupcakes show ... More >>

SFoodie's 50 Favorites: Saha's Vegan Kibbeh

Exploding Pig Farms, Trader Joe's Veg Eats, and Vegan Ryan Gosling!

​• It's Vegan Ryan Gosling! Pull your pants back up -- he's not actually vegan. It's just one in the sea of Gosling memes. Ryan Gosling is totally the house that Tumblr built. Anyway, this particular meme is pretty funny and you get to look at shirtless photos of Gosling, so since I have a Tumbl ... More >>

Soul Cocina Returns to La Victoria for One Night

Until moving to Chicago last year, chef Roger Feely of Soul Cocina enlivened San Francisco palates with his world-wise cooking and helped to unite a community of small-scale food carts, eaters, and music appreciators in the Mission and beyond. Extensive international travels as well as time served i ... More >>

Souley Vegan Frozen Meals, Meat-Eating Environmentalists, & Etsy on Foie Gras

​• PCRM has some whack attack billboard up equating cheese with big luscious thighs and it almost makes this vegan pick up a hunk of gouda and go to town. JOKE I WILL NEVER EAT ABUSED ANIMAL MUCUS but really, knock it the fuck off, PCRM. This campaign makes vegans look like the human-hating idio ... More >>

Holiday Cheesecakes, Zachary's New Vegan Pizza, & Quorn Goes Vegan!

​ • Hey kids, I've got a slight cold and when that happens, I cannot function, as all of my efforts must be spent screaming for more hot toddies, ringing bells for service (read: more screaming), and watching Downton Abbey. Let's just get this thing done so I can go back to crying to Mariah Care ... More >>

Work at Google, Millions of Mashed Potato Recipes, and Party with Some Non-Human Turkeys!

​• Harvest Home Sanctuary's Toast to the Turkeys is THIS Saturday! It's not too late to come eat and drink tons, cuddle animals, and watch turkeys eat cranberries, which is totally what turkeys do best. That, and be cranky and awesome. We've got a lot in common! • So, you want to work at Goog ... More >>

Sacramento Goes Vegan, Pumpkin Recipes Galore, and Veal at McDonalds!? We're All Screwed.

​ • McDonald's in Switzerland is serving VEAL BURGERS. In related news, Old Navy is selling Prada, Ke$ha is playing first fiddle in the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, and I'm gonna murder everyone • Subway is open to adding vegan options and we need to send emails right now to support that t ... More >>

SF Has Fewer Vegetarians and Vegans than Rest of US

Vsydneyv​Get this: San Francisco has fewer vegetarians and vegans per capita -- and more fast food junkies -- than the rest of the US, according to an online survey. The deal site Living Social released these provocative results yesterday, from a survey of 4000 diners in 20 large cities acros ... More >>

Vegetarians Love Doing It, True Blood's Pam Loves Chimps, and Easiest/Best Chocolate Mousse Recipe Ever!

​ • Cargill recalled 185,000 pounds of their Salmonella turkey this week! Yet another fabulous Cargill recall this year! What can I say? They're on a roll! And again, another exemplary job by the USDA. Did you know USDA has a website where you can ask them questions? Let's all ask them WHY TH ... More >>

Faux-Gras Donuts, Bunny Adoptions, Vegan Cooking Zines, and Protest the Terrible Circus!

​ ​• There are over 1,000 food-borne illness outbreaks in the United States EVERY year. At least, from 2008 forward, when the Centers for Disease Control began compiling the data. Fucking disgraceful. This is what happens when you have an "oversight" agency that's in bed with the people it's ... More >>

SF Weekly Letters

This Saturday: It's a Motherflipping Cupcake-Off

Drop it and EatThis will be you after all that sugar. Wee!​Vegan Cupcake Bake-Off Where: Rock Paper Scissors Collective When: Saturday, June 11, 2-5 p.m. Cost: $5 The rundown: It's a motherfucking walk off. No, it's not, it's a motherflipping cupcake-off but I've always wanted to link to ... More >>

Biz Stone's Vegan Cake, Pictures of Cute Old Animals, and Introducing Fawaffle

​• 7x7 shares a recipe from Greens for their amazing vegan devil's food cake. Rumor has it that it was served at Biz Stone's birthday party. If it's good enough for Biz Stone, it's good enough for Biz Stone. And hopefully you, too! All I know is that I'll be eating an entire one tonight as I ... More >>

Martha Stewart Thinks Beef Is Gross, Silk Thinks You Should Lay Off the Cow Teet

​SFoodie's roundup of tips, news, and rants from the week in animal-free eats. • Vegansaurus' Megan Rascal went to the live taping of Martha Stewart's vegan show. She sat front row like the baller she is, and watched Twitter cofounder, Biz Stone, and rich-bitch vegan (mean this in best way ... More >>

Local Food Community Mourns Two

Today in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco restaurant scene. Losses: Yesterday brought word of two deaths in the food world: Joseph Alioto, third-generation member of San Francisco's most recognizable restaurant family and front-of-house manager of Alioto's on the Wharf, ... More >>

Kasa's Anamika Khanna and Tim Volkema on the Closure, Pop-Ups, and the Kati Roller Truck

Britney's last-minute venue change isn't the only disappointment hanging heavy on the Castro these days. Late last month, the owners of Kasa Indian Eatery ― which opened in the Castro in 2008 ― shuttered its year-old second restaurant, on Fillmore Street in the Marina/Cow Hollow. Writing on the ... More >>

Diplomacy by the Bay

Top 10 Food Stories in San Francisco 2010

Jun BelenLumpia from 2010's breakout Hapa SF Filipino food truck.​Deciding on the top 10 food story threads of any year is tricky (did the things we ate in the past two month somehow obliterate all memory of those from the prior 10?) but this year the task was especially arduous. It was a year ... More >>

Worse Than Sarah Palin, 7-Eleven Sees the Light, and Cuddling Chickens

​SFoodie's roundup of tips, news, and rants from the week in animal-free eats. • Paul McCartney's one-legged ex who everyone hates, Heather Mills, is turning out to be a kinda coo-coo-for-Cocoa-Puffs activist. In a good way. I think. Anyway, she owns a chain of vegan restaurants in England ... More >>

Silk Nog, Blogger Blowout, and Vegan Las Vegas!

​SFoodie's roundup of tips, news, and rants from the week in animal-free eats. • First things first, Silk Nog is baaaaaack! "The bitch is back" is a phrase I reserve for two things: Elton John and Silk Nog. Both are creamy, spicy goodness, music to my ears and mouth, respectively. In fact, ... More >>

All-Vegan Cinnaholic Bakery is Both Subversive and Satisfying

Tamara PalmerCinnaholic's Old Skool Roll with pomegranate seeds ($4.50)​Berkeley's brand-new Cinnaholic is not a great place to go if you are terribly indecisive. A seemingly infinite number of customizable options are available for the bakery's all-vegan cinnamon rolls, including toppings, fr ... More >>

How to Seduce ― and Then Dump ― a Vegan

Bstar/FlickrClub Waziema: Perfect pre-sex date place?​Our favorite morsel from the Web. The Bold Italic's Laura Beck offers a date-by-date restaurant guide to landing, shagging, and then dumping a vegan boy ― not since Tablehopper's book has there been such a sassy tweaking of the restauran ... More >>

Gracias Madre has all of the vegetables and none of the cant of its parent

The Good News? Seitan Never Left Weird Fish's Menu. The Bad News? Eat Fast

Jessica O./YelpBuffalo-style deep-fried seitan: Going, going ...​Vegansaurus' mrpenguino was drop-the-F-bomb ecstatic yesterday at news that Weird Fish had brought back vegan-friendly deep-fried seitan. Last week, mrpenguino penned a rage-filled post about the Mission restaurant apparently pul ... More >>

Eat Vegan Baked Goods, Save a Bunny!

T. PalmerMelisser of Sugar Beat Sweets dispenses dangerous frosting shots.​The last edition of the S.F. Vegan Bakesale in October raised $2,600 in just three hours to save kitties from Death Row, so organizers at Vegansaurus have decided to make it a bimonthly happening.Cottontails are the focus o ... More >>

Video of the Day: Where the Dirty Hipsters Are

Funny little spoof on Where the Wild Things Are, stupid vests, vegans, being over it, Los Angeles hipster bars, smoking American Spirits, music snobbery, and much more...

DeLise Dessert Café Brings New Life to Bay Street

T. PalmerEloise and Dennis Leung: A sweet couple.​DeLise Dessert Café (327 Bay at Powell), which opened Oct. 16., is a new venture from Dennis and Eloise Leung, pastry chefs for the shuttered Bong Su."They let us create whatever we wanted," Dennis Leung told SFoodie of the couple's former employe ... More >>

I Heart Street Art: Pineapple Palm Job

​On Sunday I was supposed to meet with some friends for lunch at Herbivore (only because I have a free meal coming my way), but they had a hard time mobilizing, so I went solo to Mission Burger instead. At that point, it was so late in the day all the mandarin Jarritos were gone! With mild trepida ... More >>

Vegan Eats: Cha-Ya's Japanese Cooking Sticks to Your Ribs

Hana Gomoku: Sushi rice with kaiware, shiitake, green bean, carrot, lotus root, tofu pouch, yam cake, hijiki, burdock, broccolini, daikon, cauliflower, and zucchini.​We heart eating vegan, but have never felt quite so nourished and satisfied as we have after eating at the recently opened Sun ... More >>

Escape All the Fog and Cruelty This Weekend at the Vegan and Vegetarian Food Fest

jahat/FlickrTime to get out of town.​Given our crappy weather, ample sausages, and an embarrassment of generally meaty action catering to local carnivores, we're guessing vegans and vegetarians might seriously consider driving 40 minutes north of the city for this weekend's first annual Vegan ... More >>

Copping a 'Tude

It's hard to take a place called Café Gratitude seriously, but the food is seriously good