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February 1, 2012
Vegetarians, Vegans, and Pescatarians Rejoice! You'll Find Lots to Eat at Family Recipe
For this week's review, I headed to the Lower East Side to check out Family Recipe, a cute little spot run by Akiko Thurnauer that dishes up home-style Japanese fare. What makes this eatery worth a trip is that it offers a (relatively) large number of both vegan and vegetarian dishes, a rarity in ou ... More >>
Dining
January 11, 2012
Taste of India and Thali (Food) Court Jersey City
There's hope for your tongue at Newport Centre Mall
Blogs
October 11, 2011
Champs Bakery in Williamsburg Now a Vegan Diner
Despite the tattooed, fixed-gear-bike crowd that inhabits Williamsburg, there is a curious dearth of vegan options aside from Foodswings and Bliss Café. Champs, a small bakery tucked away on residential Ainslie Street, is changing all of that by transforming itself into a full-service vegan d ... More >>
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September 30, 2011
Kick Off Vegetarian Awareness Month By Hugging a Vegetarian
October is officially Vegetarian Awareness Month, meaning for the next 31 days you should be aware that vegetarians exist. Also, try eating a little less meat. PETA is backing off its usual controversial tactics to advocate something a little more adorable -- hugging vegetarians. So, where should yo ... More >>
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September 7, 2011
Dish No. 31: Westville East's Veggie Burger
Rebecca Marx Westville East is our go-to for unassuming yet often very well-prepared comfort food. This is in part because of the restaurant's veggie burger, which is as idiosyncratic as it is delicious.
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July 28, 2011
Cheap and Filling Veggie Fare at Aussie-Inspired Tuck Shop
This Aussie-inspired mini-chain is best known for its cheap and filling meat pies, hearty things perfect for a quick meal before or after a night of drinking in the East Village. Its vegetarian options are no less tasty (or cheap). Take the vegetarian chili. At only $6, it has a flavor and c ... More >>
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May 26, 2011
Hamburger America's George Motz Talks Burger Hype, Burger DNA
photo courtesy of George MotzGeorge Motz amid his beloved beef.George Motz was just a documentarian when he came out with his seminal burger film, Hamburger America. But considering he had to eat thousands of burgers in establishments around the country for years as he researched the film, th ... More >>
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April 28, 2011
In a Salute to Eater's Burger Week 2011, Fork in the Road Offers 5 Off-the-Wall Burgers
The #1 Veggie Burger at Elevation Burger is all orange and ricey. We've snuck peeks at Eater's week-long burger coverage somewhat enviously, but our peeking has also made us want to get into the act. Accordingly, here are some of the more perverse burgers we've encountered over the last few ... More >>
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April 15, 2011
Our 10 Best Veggie Burgers in NYC
Rebecca MarxHillstone's meaty, beaty, big and bouncy veggie burger.Ah, veggie burgers. For so long regarded as the bête noire of vegetarian cuisine, they've been slowly but surely breaking free of their Morningstar-Boca shackles, thanks to a number of restaurants who have started to tre ... More >>
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April 14, 2011
Tomorrow: Our 10 Best Veggie Burgers in NYC
Victoria BekiempisWill Remedy Diner's veggie burger charm its way into the 10 Best? Veggie burgers are getting to be like opinions: it seems like everybody has one. While that may be an exaggeration, there's no doubt that they've been gradually breaking free of their Morningstar-Boca shackle ... More >>
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April 13, 2011
Greensquare Tavern's (Vegan) Veggie Burger: Where's the Fries, Yo?
Greensquare's vegan veggie burger. Hot on the heels of a New York Times piece on upgraded meatless burgers, Greensquare Tavern (5 West 21st Street) has opened touting its vegetarian burger. Greensquare, which was originally named Greenmarket Tavern, but had to rebrand because it infringed on ... More >>
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April 6, 2011
'Jazz Night'
Greensquare's vegan veggie burger. Hot on the heels of a New York Times piece on upgraded meatless burgers, Greensquare Tavern (5 West 21st Street) has opened touting its vegetarian burger. Greensquare, which was originally named Greenmarket Tavern, but had to rebrand because it infringed on ... More >>
Dining
March 30, 2011
NYC Tofu Guide: A Springy Food for Spring
Isn’t bean curd the blandest substance on earth? Not on your life!
Blogs
January 31, 2011
New York City Gets a Vegetarian Festival
With all the foods this town devotes fests to -- Asian, kosher, barbecue, even food films -- it's amazing that no one has put on a vegetarian food fest yet. Or rather, it was amazing. The first annual New York City Vegetarian Food Festival, is in the works, slated for Sunday, April 3, at the ... More >>
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January 27, 2011
Remedy Diner Remedies the Veggie Burger
Victoria BekiempisA little cheese won't kill you. So you don't eat cute farm animals. Still, you sometimes long for the kind of gutbomb that involves a greasy heap of still-screaming meat. Remedy Diner's veggie burger solves this herbivore dilemma.
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January 21, 2011
Posts of the Week
A Friday at the end of a short week. Here's a parting glance ... We ranked our 10 best tofu dishes in NYC. A battle to the death between Elevation Burger's two veggie burgers. Ask the Critic addresses the issue of Valentine's Day chocolate.
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January 20, 2011
Veggie Burger #1 vs. Veggie Burger #2 at Elevation Burger
On the left, Veggie Burger #2; on the right, Veggie Burger #1. It's de rigueur nowadays for any burger joint to offer a veggie burger, usually something surreptitiously pulled from the freezer case. Fourteenth Street newcomer Elevation Burger departs from the norm by offering not one but tw ... More >>
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January 19, 2011
The Best Thing I Ate Yesterday
Welcome to The Best Thing I Ate Yesterday, where we endeavor to remember the very best thing we stuffed down our gullets over the past 24 hours. Why? Because the only thing better than enjoying a meal is wallowing in the memory of one savored in the recent past. Today's fond reminiscences ... Laur ... More >>
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January 10, 2011
Elevation Burger Escalates Onto West 14th Street
The Elevation Burger is big and lush, but might remind you of Five Guys. So cheap to make, so easy to sell, hamburgers form a culinary motif of our economically downtrodden age. Stand-alone shops, bistros, and chains dispensing them have increased tenfold over the last five years in the city ... More >>
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January 5, 2011
The Best Thing I Ate Yesterday
Welcome to The Best Thing I Ate Yesterday, where we endeavor to remember the very best thing we stuffed down our gullets over the past 24 hours. Why? Because the only thing better than enjoying a meal is wallowing in the memory of one savored in the recent past. Today's fond reminiscences ... Laur ... More >>
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November 2, 2010
The Best Thing I Ate Yesterday
Welcome to The Best Thing I Ate Yesterday, where we endeavor to remember the very best thing we stuffed down our gullets over the past 24 hours. Why? Because the only thing better than enjoying a meal is wallowing in the memory of one savored in the recent past. Today's fond reminiscences ... Chan ... More >>
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October 8, 2010
Our 10 Best Vegetarian Restaurants
Robert SietsemaSapthagiri's kanchipuram idli. While New York has no scarcity of excellent vegetarian food, actual vegetarian restaurants are in shorter supply, and categorically superb vegetarian restaurants are an even rarer breed. Or so it would appear if you limit your search only to plac ... More >>
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October 7, 2010
Tomorrow: Our 10 Best Vegetarian Restaurants
Robert SietsemaThe kanchipuram idly at Sapthagiri, a strictly vegetarian Indian restaurant in Jersey City.Having already explored the inside of a pig's cranium this week, we've decided to venture in a slightly different direction for tomorrow's Our 10 Best. While New York abounds with excel ... More >>
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September 30, 2010
Where Can NYC Vegetarians and Non-Vegetarians Dine Together in Gastrointestinal Harmony?
The SimpsonsWhat do you do when your friend is vegetarian but you love meat and hate earnest vegetarian restaurants? Can you recommend any non-vegetarian restaurants that have stand-out vegetarian options? The good news here is that the city's current fixation with all things farm-to-table m ... More >>
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August 25, 2010
Beet Tartare at Strong Place in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn
The novel beet tartare is a clever variation on the now-conventional beet and goat-cheese salad. No that isn't a typo. It's "beet" not "beef." Yet at Strong Place--a new neighborhood bistro named after a local street--the chef has managed to translate the raw-meat classic into a vegetarian i ... More >>
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July 23, 2010
Chatting With Veggie Burgers Every Which Way's Lukas Volger About Bodega Vegans and Why So Many Veggie Burgers Suck
Veggie Burger MadnessLukas Volger shows us a veggie burger.Yesterday, we spoke with Lukas Volger about his new book, Veggie Burgers Every Which Way, in which he gives a long-needed make-over to the bête noire of vegetarian dining. Today in Part 2 of our interview, the author talks about ... More >>
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July 23, 2010
Posts of the Week
It's Friday afternoon, and time to turn a gimlet eye back to the highlights of the past few days: Battle of the Chicken Tikka Masala: Famous Dal Cart vs. Desi Food Truck. Veggie Burgers Every Which Way's Lukas Volger chatted about how to make good veggie burgers, bodega vegans, and why so many veg ... More >>
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July 22, 2010
Chatting With Veggie Burgers Every Which Way's Lukas Volger About Reinventing the Bête Noire of Vegetarian Dining
Veggie Burger MadnessLukas Volger displays one of his creations.Even though it's generally accepted that vegetarian food has evolved by leaps and bounds over the past several years, veggie burgers by and large remain stuck in the herbivore ghetto. There's the Morningstar-Boca Burger contingen ... More >>
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July 9, 2010
Vegetarian Delights of NYC: 5 Napkin Burger's Veggie Burger
You wouldn't necessarily expect to find a decent veggie burger -- or any veggie burger -- at a burger joint, particularly one that boasts its patties are so full of meat drippings that they require five napkins to digest. So it's a pleasant surprise to report that there isn't a decent veggie ... More >>
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July 2, 2010
More Birdbaths Are on Their Way
Robert SietsemaBirdbath's 'Old-School' vegetarian sandwich.Although he's closing his Los Angeles outpost of Birdbath, Maury Rubin is doubling their number here in New York.
Blogs
June 7, 2010
Vegetarian Delights of NYC: Roasted Vidalia Onion at Seersucker
Seersucker may have opened in Carroll Gardens only two weeks ago, but it's already made a noteworthy contribution to the world of vegetarian entrées.
Blogs
May 27, 2010
Veggie Tales: How the Pret-a-Manger Options Stack Up
The onion knows its place in Arora Creations' Vegetable Korma. Photo by Victoria BekiempisLike their meaty relatives, vegetarian-friendly TV dinners and pre-made meals can be as tasteless as they are convenient. Often overloaded with salt and sameness, many are too mushy (and mysterious) to e ... More >>
Blogs
April 28, 2010
The Early Word: Otarian
Otarian invites you to judge its food by its cover. If you've ever stopped to wonder what a restaurant created in a joint effort between some Simpsons writers, a bored McDonald's mid-level executive, and a rogue band of profit-minded Hare Krishnas might look like, then Otarian might be for y ... More >>
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April 27, 2010
The Soy Luck Club: Five Great Veggie Burgers of New York
sweetonveg/FlickrThick, juicy, and free of animal by-products.Ah, the travails of the veggie burger. So often rubbery or mealy. Frequently over-soaked in the faux-chicory flavor that characterizes so many meat alternatives. Dry, floppy patties that can be more Soylent Green than green gourme ... More >>
Blogs
April 20, 2010
'Old School' Vegetarian Sandwich at Birdbath Bakery Is a Thumbnail History of Hippie Cuisine
Birdbath's sandwich ($7) is a compendium of wholesome, simple ingredients. Birdbath Bakery has a new offering, known as the Old School Vegetarian Sandwich. Two slices of whole grain bread cradle a filling of shredded raw carrots, mixed sprouts, and ripe avocado, which is spread with a knife ... More >>
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April 13, 2010
Enjoying that Veggie Burger? It May Contain Chemical Residues
Does this veggie burger contain hexane or not? Check the list to find out. Mother Jones reports that a study by Wisconsin's Cornucopia Institute reveals that many popular brands of soy-based veggie burgers contain residues of hexane, a poisonous solvent extracted from petroleum.
Dining
April 13, 2010
At Bhojan, Indian Spring
A new Curry Hill restaurant hits the veggie sweet spot
Blogs
April 7, 2010
Dirt Candy Celebrates Emotional Overeating Awareness Month
Feed your emotions.The only thing better than a good vegetarian restaurant is a good vegetarian restaurant with a sense of humor, which is why the following is a press release worth getting behind: Dirt Candy will be observing Emotional Overeating Awareness Month (it really does exist!) by gi ... More >>
Blogs
March 24, 2010
Bhojan's Fenugreek Fritters
The vegetarian cuisine from the northwestern Indian state of Gujarat is ancient and complex. Madhur Jaffrey has called it the "haute cuisine of vegetarianism." While special occasion foods are more elaborate, staples include stewed spiced vegetables of all kinds, roti, and khichdi, a spiced r ... More >>
Blogs
March 11, 2010
Vegetarian Delights of NYC: Abraco's Butternut and Parm Sandwich
Both vegetarian and delightful. Although Abraco is known primarily for its outstanding coffee, it's also got some rather stellar food. Baker and co-owner Elizabeth Quijada turns out some impressive pastries, including a famed olive oil cake, while chef Mario Hernandez oversees the savory menu ... More >>
Blogs
February 16, 2010
What's Happening This Week: A Vegetarian Food Festival; Mardi Gras Cocktails
As many of you know, our weekly dining and drinking newsletter features all the coolest epicurean events in the city. Sign up for it here! A Taste of Mardi Gras Astor Center February 16 Now that the pink-and-red madness of Valentine's Day is over, it's time to focus on this month's most important c ... More >>
Dining
February 2, 2010
No F*%#ing Onions at Jersey's Sapthagiri
Anger-making orbs and other delights at a veggie Indian restaurant
Blogs
November 2, 2009
David Chang Says That Doing Vegetarian Food Would be a "Pandora's Box"
eflon/flickrSwiss chard, or Pandora's box?David Chang appeared on Leonard Lopate earlier this afternoon to plug his new cookbook, which hit bookshelves last week. In between talking about recipes (all of the ingredients in the book, Chang said, could be found in Chinatown), plugging the Brook ... More >>
Dining
February 4, 2009
Sexy Veggies at Dirt Candy
Breaking the vegetarian rules
Art
February 27, 2007
Let There Be Lite
Melt your winter heft with dosa, tea, and something nice 'n' stinky
Books
January 30, 2007
Meat Puppets
Eat your greens: chewing over the history and politics of vegetarianism
News
May 17, 2005
Where's the Beef?
The author might have forgotten why she's a vegetarian—but don't ask her to quit now
Dining
September 14, 2004
Egg Lover's Paradise
Exploring the mysterious dish chicken 65 on Curry Hill
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November 16, 1999
Bean there, done that
Exploring the mysterious dish chicken 65 on Curry Hill
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