Is your city veg friendly? Best Veg Cities?

[ceeveg]

Our city, Nashville, has a few good options. We have a Whole Foods and Trader Joe's, as well as a few good CSA programs now. There is a small natural foods market with good/varied selection, Turnip Truck, in the East Nashville area. There are also a few scattered farmer's markets, and a few places to eat (still have not tried the veg/vegan/gluten free restaurant The Wild Cow, also in East Nashville.

But what about your areas? Are you pleased with the veg/vegan options in your area? Where would you LOVE to live?

[somegirl99]

My town has nowhere to eat (population ~200), but San Francisco is an hour away, Santa Cruz is an hour away, and Berkeley is an hour and a half away, all of them very vegan-friendly so I consider myself pretty lucky.

With all my international traveling, the worst place was Japan. Germany and France were also very challenging. UK and Australia were the best, even if a place didn't have vegan options, at least people knew what "vegan" meant which is a lot better than many other places. I've been to vegetarian restaurants around the world!

[Sayward]

I live in Portland Oregon. So, um, yeah.

[I-Love-Alaska]

We have a Jasons Deli, a Panera Bread, a NFS with an awesome deli that I tend to frequent. Also, we just got a http://lovinghut.us/ restaurant here so I'm looking forward to trying it out. They were just written up in the newspaper so I'm going to wait a week or two before I go there.

I can order at almost any restaurant, although I do prefer to stick with places where I know I can find items that fit with my Veg*n diet...

[crunchy_mommy]

I'd love to live in CA or NY... even Boston would be great. So many more vegan choices!!

Where I live they just put a WF & a TJ's, with some veg options but not a ton. There are a few restaurants about 30-60 mins away that serve vegan dishes but the only all-vegan restaurants are 90+ minutes away. Every time we take a trip we check the route for vegan restaurants so we can stop somewhere special on the way.

[catnip]

I'm in Sacramento CA. We have Whole Foods, Trader Joe's and our very own Sacramento Natural Foods Co-Op. I can get specialty ingredients like Daiya cheese easily, as well as all sorts of amazing local organic fruits, veggies, nuts, and rice. We have a huge year round farmer's market, and a good climate for gardening.

There are at least 4 all-vegan restaurants (Sugar Plum Vegan Cafe, Noble Vegetarian, Au Lac Veggie, and Art of Food) and a few more vegetarian ones (Andy Ngyuen's, Sunflower Drive-In, Udupi Indian Cafe), plus some amazing vegan friendly omni places (Queen Sheba's, Dos Coyotes, Baja Burrito, Ernesto's, Opa Opa, Taste of Thai, Pieces Pizza, Capital Dawg just to name a few). And I know of at least 2 build your own frozen yogurt venues with sorbet options, plus Here's the Scoop on Freeport has honest to golly vegan soy ice cream in the scoop shop (and bon-bons!).

[faeriecurls]

I live in NYC - very veg*n friendly!

[*LoveBugMama*]

My COUNTRY isn`t even veg*an friendly. I live in Norways third largest city. We have one tiiiiiiny vegetarian lunchcafè, and not much else. We have healtfood stores, ofcourse. Restaurants here have for the most part ZERO vegan options. (I have never even seen the word vegan in a restaurant here)
Maybe half of the restaurants here have ONE vegetarian option, the rest have none. I know 1 restaurant in town with more than 1 vegetarian option.

I can get soymilk/nutmilk etc, quorn, a few kinds of veggieburgers and hot dogs. NO lunchmeat replacements, the biggest stores MIGHT have one kind of vegan cheese (and it tastes awful ) etc.

[Keeta]

As far as I'm concerned, there is nowhere more veg-friendly than Portland, OR. I don't live there anymore, but my parents do and we go down at least once a month. So much good food!

Not that we can complain tooooo much here in Seattle - it's pretty good, but not great (compared to Portland, anyway.). Chaco Canyon is pretty amazing (vegan and lots of raw). We have a vegan pizza joint (pizza pi), a vegan grocery store (sidecar for pigs peace), several vegetarian cafes...arayas is all vegetarian thai and moonlight cafe (my fave!) is chinese with a whole gigantic vegan menu with more mock meat than you can shake a stick at! We also have whole foods and TJ's, and a local chain natural food store called PCC.

[rhiOrion]

asheville, nc. i lived there for about 6 years, and it is very veggie friendly

[nolansmummy]

I live in a college town in Ks, and i have found it very veg*n friendly.
Lots of restaurants have a variety of veg entrees to chose from. We have a small co op, but no whole foods or trader joes. The local grocery stores have fairly large whole foods sections and i've been able to find everything i've needed. We might not have some of the fancier vegan stuff that whole foods has though.

[BeanyMama]

We're in Fort Worth, Texas. Haha! It's literally dubbed 'Cowtown'. There is a cattle drive through downtown twice every single day. It's a trip to be vegan here, but some body needs to do it, eh?! There's one great vegan place, and a Central Market grocery store. Whole Foods is in the next town over. Nearby Dallas has tons of vegan options, so we're making it

[ShadowMoon]

I live in Providence, RI and it's not too bad. There are lots of places that offer decent veg options, even if they're not exclusively vegetarian. There are 3 Whole Foods in the area, some good farmer's markets, and a couple of great co-ops. I find it very easy to be vegan here.

[DaughterOfKali]

I wish there was a vegetarian cafe/restaurant in my town. There are some places that have ok veggie options but they aren't solely vegetarian.

Boston and Cambridge have vegetarian restaurants but I don't like to go into the city.

[MsVyky]

Every time I visit Seattle, I am blown away by the selection of amazing vegan food there.


My husband said he's had wicked vegan food in texas when his band was on tour. I don't remember what city, specifically though. I want to say Austin?

[To-Fu]

Seattle is amazing for vegans! In one block, there is a vegan grocery store, a vegan pizza place, and a vegan diner. I am generally overwhelmed by all the options.

[Keeta]

Originally Posted by To-Fu

Seattle is amazing for vegans! In one block, there is a vegan grocery store, a vegan pizza place, and a vegan diner. I am generally overwhelmed by all the options.

What's the vegan diner you speak of?! I know the other two, but we're always on the lookout for more. We're in West Seattle, which isn't quite as veg-friendly as the rest of the city. But they are going to open another Chaco Canyon here by next April!!!

[JamieCatheryn]

They're all equal if you cook at home.

[Ianthe]

I just moved out of the Salt Lake City area, and it was VERY veg friendly. We had lots of dedicated vegan restaurants, and lots of veg friendly ethnic restaurants to choose from, in addition to numerous health food stores (both chain and locally owned).

The small college town that I moved to only has a few veg-friendly restaurants, no dedicated veg ones though. It would be a great place to start one!

[MsVyky]

Last time we were in Seattle, we went to a buddhist restaurant with wicked corn chowder and hot and sour soup. Bamboo Palace? Something like that.