im from aliso! ever go to wheel?
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Yay, I like this thread. I live in Seal Beach. To Guate Vegan all lonely in Garden Grove, there are tons of vegans around here! My friend lives in Stanton and is vegan, her bf is and he's in Huntington, I'm in Seal...where have you been? Hopefully to Tien Vu cuz that restaurant is insanely good.
:( It's because I have been underage up until like two weeks ago and I have no way to get around lol..If I did I would probably go to some meetup somewhere... I still don't have a license though, but I'm leaving to Israel soon so making vegan friends here would be painful since I would be leaving them anyway!
LA vegan here :D I've been living at Stuff I Eat in Inglewood lately. It's local, the food is sooo good and not bad on the prices either. It's about time Inglewood got a vegan restaurant!
It's like a mix of Mexican (tofu tacos, enchilada pie, burritos, quesadillas) and American? (portobello mushroom sandwich, untuna sandwich, tofu chicken salad sandwich). They also have amazing raw desserts! They opened last June and I'm trying to keep them open :) ..if that means going 3-4 times a month..so be it lol.
http://www.stuffieat.com/
Oh.. and if any LA vegans are interested in going to a raw vegan potluck on Sat. May 2, let me know..it's in Manhattan Beach.
Oh yay! I'm glad to see the thread still has recent posts in it, hehe.
I live out here in Modesto, 2 hours from the bay area. There are no vegetarian/vegan restaurants out here that I know of, but I get by with shopping at Raley's. My boyfriend and I are planning to move out to Santa Cruz when we get a little more situated with our income. I had no idea how vegan friendly Santa Cruz was until I visited in March of this year. If you live out there, I hope you know how lucky you are! :p
Yah, it really is nice to be able to eat out from time to time. I like a couple of places in Merced. One is the Indian food place on Main street, but it is hardly ever open, and the other is the Thai place on 16th, which is always open. Both are very vegan friendly.
In other news, I went to a Chinese restaurant (normally a vegan slam-dunk) in Chowchilla and asked what was available to vegans. The server said that they didn't have anything. I looked around at the establishment, nearly devoid of customers, and asked, "so, I should take my big wad of cash that I want to spend on food elsewhere?"
Here is the French Toast recipe:
"French Toast, Cashew Tahini (by Sarah Preston)
Ingredients
1 cup unsalted cashews
1/4 cup sesame tahini (use one that isn’t very bitter like arrowhead mills)
1 1/4 cup soymilk
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 loaf French bread sliced about 1/2 inch thick
oil for frying
Method
-Put all ingredients into a blender and puree until very smooth. It will be a very thick, creamy substance like pancake batter. Dip slices of bread into batter and coat each side fully. Put into heated frying pan and cook until browned and not soggy.
Serve with real maple syrup and Earth Balance....maybe some berries."
Also, I am importing the Zonkey from VRF: http://veganrepresent.com/forums/ima...ies/zonkey.gif
I may post more here, if we had Zonkeys.
-Jason
Haha, did the people at the restaurant even try to accommodate you? That would be so rude just to say "No, get your stinky, hippie ass out of here." lol
That French toast sounds extremely delicious already! Thank you so much for posting that. I'm on my way tomorrow to pick up a few of the ingredients that I still need. I'll take pictures of me noming them and post them up, how about that? Hehe :D
Few people could mistake me for a hippie, ha! I think if I were called a hippie, I would have to punch someone in the dick.
Nancy (phloxy) and I love this recipe. I think we have a bunch of breakfast favorites, including, banana-pecan pancakes, blueberry cornbread muffins and various burrito incarnations. French toast is a simple, delicious luxurious treat.
Santa Clara here. I've only tried 1 vegan place here so far. It's called good karma vegan house. Kind of cafe style food. they cook it up at the start of each day and u kinda order from what they have that day. Its in downtown san jose near sjsu. its really laid back and nice in there. very small though haha.
To all the Southern Cali, beach-going people: Thuyen Vien in Garden Grove closed down as well as That's Amore-the vegan Italian food place in Cerritos, but there's still Native Foods in Costa Mesa/Tustin, Au Lac in Westminster, the restaurants in the Mother's Markets in Huntington Beach and Costa Mesa, Bodhi Tree on Main Street in Huntington, Secret Spot in Sunset Beach and tons more that I haven't been to yet.
hey.. new to the forum here. i'm in thousand oaks and have to say there aren't a ton of selections in my area (i hate to drive too far). but as it was mentioned before, natural cafe is pretty awesome. no one mentioned Mary's Secret Garden though... absolutely fantastic vegan/raw place in Ventura. definitely worth a try...
anyone local? would be great to meet some others in the area!
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I'm in Hollywood and there's lots of vegan restaurants here as well as vegan meet-up groups. I went with a friend to a new(ish) place recently called 'Doomie's Home Cookin' in Hollywood. My friend and I both loved our food and highly recommend it. It's got a lot of fried stuff on the menu and is all about comfort food like mac and 'cheeze'. (So it's not the ideal place to go if you're on a low-cal diet but it tastes damn good.)
I'm definitely going again in the near future. Everything on the menu is vegan *except* that they offer real cheese for sandwiches. Anyway, just thought I'd share that the other LA peeps. Doomie's doesn't have a real website running yet but they have a facebook page & twitter.
I live in Los Angeles and am about to graduate from USC. :) It'd be great to meet some vegan friends in my idea as most of my friends are deffff not veggies! lol
Any San Diego vegans?
Is anyone going to Worldfest, the biggest vegan festival in Southern California?
It's happening on Sunday, May 22 in Van Nuys, CA
http://www.worldfestevents.com/index.php
http://www.worldfestevents.com/conte...lyer_final.jpg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1tes6bw0CI
I had no idea Doomie's Home Cookin' relocated to Hollywood. They used to be in Chinatown. That place is GOOD.
I'm at Hacienda Heights (east LA county).
I didn't realize I lived in such a Mecca. I live south of Oakland. There are not many vegans right here (I don't know of any others), but in Berkeley there are many. Ordering vegan isn't that hard there and I'm there at least 2x/week, so it's all good.
Santa Cruz! (Which I see there seem to be a lot of), but I originate from Humboldt County (where there are fewer).
I'm in Tecate, Baja California, Mexico - does that count as California? :P