Vegetarian Star

Art Smith and Tal Ronnen

Art Smith is one of the brains behind LYFE kitchen, a restaurant in the LA area serving healthier convenience food.

Although LYFE is not a vegetarian restaurant, it does offer plant-based options for those customers. In addition, it serves more sustainable meat products.

Smith spoke with the LAist on his decision to remove some meat from his menu at home.

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GQ magazine has named Philadelphia’s vegan restaurant Vedge as one of the top 13 restaurants of 2013.

Complete with a dinner, dessert, cocktail and beer and wine menu, Vedge was the only plant-based restaurant to make it to writer Alan Richman’s list.

His experience may bring more veggie company to Vedge on next year’s list of favorite restaurants.

“I had no idea so much flavor could be delivered without butter, cream, milk, eggs, and other kitchen staples,” Richman wrote.

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“That they’re boring and only really meant to be an accompaniment to the protein on the plate. And it has to be healthy – which isn’t a bad thing, but healthy usually connotes bland, and that’s certainly not how we think of vegetables or vegetarian food.”

—Amanda Cohen, owner and chef of NYC’s all-vegetable restaurant Dirt Candy.

The latest adventure in Cohen’s anything but boring culinary feats include making making pastrami from parsnip.

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Dita Von Teese can’t enough of the veggie shops located in the 18-block district of San Francisco Bay area known as Haight Street.

When in the area, Von Teese said she patronizes her, “favorite vintage stores and stop in the juice bars and vegan restaurants for snack.”*

Beginning on Gough near Market Street and ending right at the entrance to Golden Gate Park at Stanyan Street, Haight Street offers numerous merchants that cater to vegans and vegetarians.

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BabyCakes, the New York-based vegan bakery popular with many vegan food loving celebrities and everyone else, has launched an app for Apple’s iphone and ipad.

The app contains videos, recipes and tips for creating some of founder Erin McKenna‘s most popular vegan and mostly gluten-free treats, including cookies, donuts, breads, pies, cupcakes and more.

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Leona Lewis has a favorite vegetarian hotspot when in the Soho area of London.

It’s Mildred’s Vegetarian Restaurant featuring appetizers, sides, main courses, wine menus and more.

She’s even got a favorite entree.

‘It’s small and relaxed and has a great little private dining room my friends and I sometimes hire. Try the pan-fried halloumi with spinach and cherry tomatoes,” Lewis said.

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At first mention, Life After Top Chef sounds like a knock-off of a celebrity reality TV show where 80s and 90s one-hit-wonders, teen heartthrobs and the likes attempt one more shot of fame before finally losing their complete hairlines.

But it’s actually an exciting series from Bravo featuring Top Chef‘s big names that are already doing quite well like Fabio Viviani, Richard Blais, Spike Mendelsohn and Jennifer Carroll, who’s opening the vegetarian-friendly Concrete Blonde in New York City’s West Village.

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Chrissie Hynde stepped into international veggie burger paradise when she made a stop at Singapore’s VeganBurg. The all-vegan restaurant recently celebrated it’s 4th outlet in the South-East Asian city-state.

After her Singapore Grand Prix performance, Chrissie fuel up on the Cracked Pepper Mayo burger.

“I’ve toured around the world with my band and always looking for the perfect burger. I finally found it at VeganBurg!” Chrissie said.

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