hi! AMAZING photo skills on this blog. LOVE LOVE LOVE. i'm a vegan in LA. just wondering what your top 3 (in order) restaurants are here and san fran and portland? :)
stacy
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stacymichelson
This is one of the hardest questions to answer ever. And sorry it took me two months to answer your question. I do love fantasizing about vegan restaurants in other cities. It’s one of my favorite past times. For me an amazing restaurant isn’t just about the food, it’s about the atmosphere and the friends who want to join in on the fun. My favorite restaurants always have great stories.
LOS ANGELES
-I Love Native Foods in Culver City. I love the big group tables. The Chicken Run Ranch Burger with a side of kale is a family staple.
-I’ll go to Pure Luck any day of the week. I went opening night and waited two hours for my meal to arrive but I had friends and drinks with me. I have loved Pure Luck and it’s craziness ever since.
-Madeleine Bistro is one of my favorites, especially for special occasions. Engagement party, Thanksgiving, Valentines Day, I’m here.
Our nice little engagement party at Madeleine Bistro
-I’ve been going to Real Food Daily for 15 years. It’s where I mingle with the old school vegans.
-I’ve also been going to Sunday Brunch on Holidays at Inn of the Seventh Ray for 15 years. Their regular menu has now skimped on the once awesome vegan options.
I love the vegan duck at Inn of the Seventh Ray. The duck is in the top left corner. So many lovely options for brunch.
-Take me to the valley for Follow Your Heart. It’s been around forever.
-I love to go to lunch and brunch at Flore.
-Hook me up with pizza from Purgatory Pizza, Hard Times, Masa.
PORTLAND
I Love Portland. I could go on all day about Portland but I’ll keep this brief.
-Portobello so awesome, the best food
-The Bye And Bye I got engaged here :)
-Vita Cafe I ate here four times in four days
-Sweetpea Bakery and Back to Eden mind blowing!
SAN FRANCISCO
The San Fran area use to be my haven for vegan friendly restaurants. I know it still is a haven but I don’t make as many trips up to San Fran as I use to. So my list is kind of dated.
-Greens Restaurant I still like going here. This use to be the premier vegetarian restaurant that people would travel from all over the world just to visit. It’s still excellent and the location is pretty. The last time I went here I had the worse service in the world but it was so awful and ridiculous it’s actually a long funny story. I’ll be back.
-Millenium I haven’t been in a few years but I’ll always have great memories of Millenium.
-I always stop at Rainbow Grocery and I have a thing for Maggie Mudd sundaes and Ike’s vegan sandwiches.
Thanks for the question. This was actually a pretty fun exercise down memory and taste bud lane.
BONUS
Here is a picture of a cute dog with one eye.
Coconut macaroons from Bodhi tree. Wow!
Cutest dogs for adoptions :( please adopt.
The origami party was super cool. I love stuff like this.
These are my favorite new shirts from 
More cool vegan ice cream.
This is me. No I didn’t drink all of these. I ran into some really crazy vegan party animals who drank all of these.
This is the #1 reason I went to 
I had to run home for a few minutes to get ready for the next vegan event. Mochi was hanging out.
This cool french bulldog was having a fun time running around in her yard.
We just made it in time to Megan and Gary’s place for their wedding bike ride. I can’t wait to get back to their pad. I heard they have 
How cool is this? Very cool. We actually rode out to Santa Monica Pier and went north on the bike path on the beach.
And now onto the food we ate at the party. Vegan clubs, reubens, walnut pate, hummus platter, seiten strips all by 
One of the best cupcakes I have ever had. Seriously. Freshly made with the best ingredients by 
Finally we couldn’t pass up this taste testing opportunity to be among the first to taste 