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Plantlab cheeses; Credit: Geoff Souder

M.A.K.E. Chef Matthew Kenney on How to Make Great Vegan Cheese

The cheese plate at M.A.K.E., a raw restaurant located at The Market inside Santa Monica Place, features not only some of the absolute best vegan cheese in Los Angeles — it's some of the best vegan cheese anywhere. Sure, the bar for vegan cheese is pretty low, thanks to a variety of......
Dazzling Caesar salad at Cafe Gratitude; Credit: Hope Lee

How to Make Cafe Gratitude's Vegan Caesar Salad

If you look hard enough, finding a vegan Caesar salad in Los Angeles isn't that hard to do. However, finding a good vegan Caesar salad often is. In fact, not many restaurants serve vegan Caesars worth mentioning, and of this select few, perhaps none are better than the plate called Dazzling......
Orange oatmeal smoothie bowl; Credit: Cheryl Groff

Adventures in Veganism: Organic, Raw, Vegan Fun at NV-DA Market

The best part about having breakfast at San Pedro raw vegan eatery NV-DA (pronounced "nuh-dah," which according to their site means "the sun and the moon" in Cherokee) is the way you feel after you eat there. Opened in December by former Cru employee Stacey Jackson, NV-DA Market serves smoothies, smoothie......
Randy Clemens; Credit: Tyler Graham

Why Sriracha Cookbook Author Randy Clemens Is Not Trying to Kill Us All

Turns out, Sriracha is more than just some Thai-inspired hot sauce that should be dumped on damn near anything you can put in your mouth. At least that's what Randy Clemens, author of The Sriracha Cookbook and The Veggie-Lover's Sriracha Cookbook, says. Rather than creating a bunch of traditional recipes and writing "then add......
Real Food Daily at LAX; Credit: Derek Rath

Real Food Daily Does Vegan Airport Food

Vegan cuisine, such as it is, at Los Angeles International Airport is no longer confined to bananas and over-salted peanuts as Real Food Daily, owned by Ann Gentry, has been operating a fourth location at Terminal Four since December. As expected, the menu is a bit smaller than the other three Real......
veggie dog at Dodger stadium; Credit: Dov Rudnick

Adventures in Veganism: Dodger Stadium and the Veggie Dog

The Help/Contact Us portion of Dodgers.com has a form to fill out that allows people to ask questions about baseball. Or something like that. Who knows, really, because an email sent in the early portion of May asking for help with information regarding vegan options at Chavez Ravine was never returned. Thankfully, when......
Gracias Madre's Chandra Gilbert; Credit: Anne Fishbein

Gracias Madre's Chandra Gilbert on the Mysteries of Vegan Brunch

As if you needed another reason to eat at Gracias Madre  as of June 1, the West Hollywood vegan restaurant now serves brunch on Saturdays and Sundays. The menu includes Mexican plates such as chilaquiles, tofu ranchero scramble, breakfast torta and chimichangas and traditional brunch fare such as French toast, homemade biscuits,......
Spicy mint noodles; Credit: Ryan Ritchie

Adventures in Veganism: Thai Vegan in Santa Monica

Thai Vegan's website describes its Santa Monica location as a "kiosk," but the restaurant is more like a food truck without wheels. Which is to say you order from a tiny window, there's a chalkboard menu, you can eat either in the sun or under the shade and if you......