Tag: vegan cuisine

The Bean Has Landed

BEAN. Charlotte’s very first all-vegan, sit-down restaurant. If you’re not familiar with Charlotte, NC and its steak houses and BBQs and local yokels endlessly carrying on about bacon, you don’t understand just how truly groundbreaking Bean is. Trust me, it is a very big deal – history in the making! Bean had its “soft” opening… Read More ›

Eat Vegan On $4 A Day

One thing that’s been bugging me lately is the new “elitism” of being vegan. Elite as in expensive. Eating vegan, at least at home, should be the easiest and cheapest way to eat. (Dining out is another matter, but since I’m reviewing a cookbook, we’ll focus on home cooked meals.) Even if you’re flat broke, you can still… Read More ›

Restaurant Review – Olive Garden

Olive Garden is probably not the first choice restaurant for most vegetarians/vegans, but let’s face it – we all wind up there sometime. Someone from your office will throw a birthday party there. Or you’re shopping at Carolina Place Mall with friends and they decide they’d rather eat at Olive Garden than the Food Court. … Read More ›

Don’t Panic! – Ordering At An Indian Restaurant

Indian restaurants can be a bit intimidating your first visit or two. You enter the restaurant, and your mouth waters – but you can’t really explain or identify what you are smelling. There may be traditional or contemporary Indian music in the background – you start to get into it, there’s some sort of weird funky one-string… Read More ›

Update … To Ghee or Not To Ghee

I called/emailed most of the Charlotte-area Indian restaurants today to see how willing they were to prepare a vegan meal. Woodlands, Situl, Bombay Grill, Copper, and The Blue Taj all said a vegan meal would be no problem! I did clarify that a vegan meal meant no butter, no cream, no paneer, no yogurt. Still… Read More ›