Red Bamboo

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 collard greens.

Favorites include the Creole soul chicken with sweet corn mashed potatoes, Dante’s cuisine – black pepper soy beef chunks sautéed in mushroom gravy, and codfish cakes with mango salsa. Entrees come with a huge side of veggies that will fulfill your recommended vitamin intake for the next week. Red Bamboo also has cheap takeout lunch specials for your veggie-on-the-run lifestyle.

The original Red Bamboo is on W4th Street in the west village, and a new location has just opened up in Fort Greene.