Vegetarian Star

The Hard Rock Cafe in London is initiating Paul McCartney‘s Meat Free Monday campaign in its restaurant, beginning June 7, and the change coincides with McCartney’s UK tour, according to Gigwise.

The menu will feature choices like Linda McCartney’s brand of veggie burgers and several drinks. According to a PR rep from the Hard Rock Cafes, the Linda McCartney veggie burgers were launched there when the brand was first created.

McCartney’s motivation behind Meat Free Mondays is get people thinking about the relationship between meat consumption and the environment.

“Having one designated meat free day a week is actually a meaningful change that everyone can make, that goes to the heart of several important political, environmental and ethical issues all at once,” McCartney said.

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Moby is so into tacos and kale, he would eat the combination as his last meal on death row. In a week’s time, he made his way across the U.S. to enjoy tacos on both the east and west coast. The vegan musician shares his food adventures in Grub Street New York‘s regular feature where notables divulge every detail of what they’ve eaten in the past week.

New York city drew him to Caravan of Dreams for their seitan tacos. “They have these seitan taquitos, which are tiny little mini-tacos with seitan, pineapple, guacamole, and salsa,” Moby said. “They’re spectacular. It comes with a side of sautéed kale and garlic.”

By the middle of the week, he made his way to Real Food Daily in California to enjoy “Taco the Town,” another seitan based taco dish with black beans, spanish rice, guacamole and pico de gallo.

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A San Francisco restaurant has paid tribute to the Beastie Boys in a very veggie manner.

According to San Francisco Weekly, Weird Fish restaurant has an item on the menu that contained a mix of seafood with tomato broth on a sour dough bun called, “B-Boy Bouillabaisse,” named after a song from the 1989 album, Paul’s Boutique.

The dish now comes with a mock salmon, renaming the creation, “B-Boy Veganbaisse.”

Seems fitting, considering Mike D is all into raw and Adam Yauch went organic and vegan after his diagnosis of cancer.

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Erin McKenna. Photo Credit: Clarke Tolton

Although Erin McKenna may run the very popular and successful BabyCakes Bakeries in New York and California, home to the vegan, gluten-free and mostly sugar free desserts, she didn’t always have the vegan dough to put out for buying all the ingredients when experimenting in the kitchen.

According to a recent story in LA Weekly, McKenna worked three jobs as a waitress, had no credit and no money to put down to purchase products while she formulating her recipes for the restaurant.

So if anyone is ever upset that a spelt or gluten free Red Velvet Cupcake costs $4.25, it’s not like she’s not feeling your pain.

The baker who’s treats were voted best by New York Magazine said, “People get upset because they think it’s really expensive,” adding that prices will come down once more people get on the healthy eating bandwagon.

Yes, we are all looking forward to the day when dairy-free, gluten-free muffins can be bought for $2 from the vending machine just like the ones that guy name Otis makes.

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Isabel Lucas was spotted heading for breakfast with a male friend at the Alcove Cafe & Bakery in Los Feliz, California.

Who knows what the Transformers actress ordered, but Lucas has gone veggie since watching Earthlings, so she may have taken advantage of the cafe’s curried tofu.

Seen in more than one dish at the vegetarian friendly restaurant, including the curried tofu benedict with sesame seeds and spinach, or tossed into the vegan wrap with hummus, grilled portabello mushroom, arugula, cucumber, tomato, radish and avocado in a spinach tortilla.

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Chicago Diner "Radical Reuben"

The Chicago Diner was recently featured on TLC’s show Best Food Ever, hosted by John Goodman.

The episode, titled, “Darn Good Diners,” highlighted the vegetarian diner’s Radical Reuben sandwich, and how it is prepared from start to finish.

The Radical Reuben is a vegan sandwich made from seitan to imitate roast beef, and topped with grilled peppers, onions, sauerkraut, soy or dairy cheese and homemade vegan dressing between two slices of toasted marbled rye bread.

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Reports from The Philadelphia Inquirer say Chrissie Hynde will protest outside the McDonald’s at 40th and Walnut Streets in University City in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on Thursday, May 27, for the PETA McCruelty “I’m Hatin’ It” campaign, aimed at the fast food giant for refusing to switch to a more humane way of slaughtering chickens, something its European outlets have already done.

The protest comes just days after McDonald’s made another decision that lowered its favorability with animal rights activists when it refused to switch even 5% of its eggs to cage-free.

Hynde will be present to pass out Unhappy Meals, featuring creepy looking horror movie Ronald McDonalds, mangled plastic chickens and ketchup packets mimicking fake blood.

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The Hard Rock Calling Festival in Hyde Park in London is set for June 25-27, with big acts lined up like Pearl Jam, Ben Harper and Paul McCartney.

One of the first waitresses for the first Hard Rock Cafe in London will be happy to see McCartney in person again.

Rita Gulligan, who now does extensive PR work for the company, revealed to The Daily Star that the catering staff for the festival will be doing a special vegetarian meal for him and that veggie burgers from the Linda McCartney vegetarian food line were first launched at the Hard Rock Cafe, adding “they were top sellers.”

Although the menus at Hard Rock Cafes nationwide may vary, many offer a veggie burger topped with items like zucchini, squash and salsa.

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