Soy is a discrete and cozy little restaurant in the lower east side – if you didn’t know to look for it you might walk by every day and never notice it. Eating there is almost like going to your friend’s mother’s house for dinner – if your friend’s mom was a really good Japanese cook. The space is cute, whimsical and comforting, with its cheerful green walls, kimono …
I was a little apprehensive when I first arrived at Lan Café – a small and simple vegetarian Vietnamese restaurant in the heart of the questionable-quality Indian restaurant district – where restaurant hosts pretend to wrangle each other for your business amid their clanky Christmas light decorations. However, I was surprised to discover that the food at Lan Café is really good. I really enjoyed the vegetarian shrimp papaya salad - shredded green papaya, carrots, fresh aromatic herbs, onion, chili …
Red Bamboo is one of those rare veggie restaurants that pleases meat eaters almost as much as vegetarians, and is always the place I take my non-vegetarian friends when I want to impress. The “asian soul food†includes a wide variety of fake meats, and you’ll be hard pressed to find any other restaurant (veggie or not) with a menu that includes both roti canai and blackened catfish and …
Wild Ginger Vegetarian Cafe, Broome Street is a charming and rustic little vegan oasis in the heart of Nolita. This modern pan-asian place is great for the romantic one-on-one or (surprisingly) for groups. There were 2 birthday parties when I was there but the restaurant nevertheless retained its peacefulness. The soy cutlet sizzling platter with tangy black bean sauce and the General Tsao’s soy protein with steamed …
A meal at Tiengarden is all about internal balance and holistic living. I left this restaurant feeling really healthy and cleansed, almost as if I completed a fast. Tiengarden is a small and simple restaurant that serves natural vegan Asian food – without MSG, preservatives, artificial colorings or additives. The menu is based on an ancient Chinese theory that five vegetables – the onion family, garlic family, leeks, shallot, and tobacco – are considered impurities, and therefore abstains from them. …