This vegan was happy to be indulged by my family with a vegan chocolate frosted marble cake from the bakery at the Wedge after recovering from the buffet at Asase Yaa over on Bryant just north of Lake.
Every Sunday Asase Yaa has a very affordable brunch featuring live music and a mix of mostly vegan with a few vegetarian and even a meat dish or two on their buffet. Those who like Ghanaian spice will really enjoy this buffet and the smoothies are of unusually high quality with mostly organic ingredients. This was after an early Sunday morning meeting at Maria's Cafe over on Franklin where I had coffee and indulged in a not quite vegan(ahem) guava pastry with my coffee. Though the best vegan food around is clearly at Ecopolitan near the intersection of 24th and Lyndale where new management has greatly increase the quality of the service to match the quality of the food-100%vegan organic raw food prepared with a gourmet flourish, one of the nice things about being vegan in Mpls is most restaurants have a clue about what you mean when you say you are vegan and staff are ready to point you to items available on the menu or off. The King and I is notable for vegan fans of thai food in that they will make sauces from scratch just for the vegan customer that leave out the fish paste that often serves as a base for so many sauces in dishes that are otherwise vegan in thai cusisine. Pizza Luce wins the vegan pizza options hands down though their prices have been creeping up lately. Even Mocow on the Hill(in St. Paul) makes some fantastic traditional root based dishes that are vegan upon request. Lotus Vietnamese, Udupi Cafe South Indian Cuisine, and the new Indian restaurant across from the music box are among the restaurants I frequent. French Meadow, Cafe Brenda(particularly there sobe plate), Falafel King, and It's Greek to Me are other favorites. I cannot name them ALL!!! For more on particularly vegan friendly restaurants in the twin cities metro area visit www.ecoanimalallies.org David Strand Loring Park __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Shopping - Send Flowers for Valentine's Day http://shopping.yahoo.com TEMPORARY REMINDER: 1. Send all posts in plain-text format. 2. Cut as much of the post you're responding to as possible. ________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
