The Silicon Valley Lunch, hosted by Chris, BAVeg co-founder and webmaster, will lunch at selected vegetarian restaurants. The inaugural lunch is this Thursday 9/20 at Merit Vegetarian, a very new Sunnyvale restaurant featuring Vietnamese cuisine, including faux meat as well as vegetable-based entrees. Future locations could include Garden Fresh and Kokila's.

Sharon's first dinner at Fragrance Land in Cupertino is Thursday 9/27. Fragrance Land is a new Chinese vegetarian restaurant. It gets high marks from early reviewers: "Highly recommended", "Very nice people & really good food", and "We're in heaven. We loved it". So join Sharon and BAVeg and check it out!

And, please support our pretty new East Bay event, the 3rd Sunday dinner at Central Vegetarian in Alameda on 9/23. This is Mike's first time hosting so let's give him our thanks & support!

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Join us Saturday 9/22 to celebrate the last day of summer at Bay Area Vegetarians' Native Garden Vegan Food Party in Pacifica (10 minutes south of SF). Vegan Food Parties are designed for like-minded individuals to share good food and conversations. The emphasis is on preparing your favorite vegan dishes to share, or you can be bold and "animal test" your new recipe on hungry volunteers.

Ann and Reeba will be hosting it in their native plant garden in Pacifica from noon to 4 pm. Please RSVP for address. There's also a possibility of hiking at nearby San Pedro Park afterwards. And, as with all of our events, everyone is welcome, both veg & non-veg.

Whether you love looking at plants, or you love eating edible plants, this is the VFP for you!

 

It was great fun to see the answers come pouring in from all around the Bay Area and beyond. Three winners were randomly selected and have been contacted.

The correct answers to the quiz based on "Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease" by Dr. Caldwell. B. Esselstyn, Jr. in the August Newsletter are: C, True, B, and True. (See August newsletter for questions.)

 

Merit Vegetarian, a Vietnamese restaurant, is now open for business in Sunnyvale. If you love the variety of faux-meats and vegetable entrees featured at Golden Era/Lotus, you'll also enjoy Merit which is incredibly similar style (and reportedly in the same family). Chris is hosting a lunch there on Thursday.

For regular updates, check out our Guide News Blog

With 1,259 reviews in the Ultimate Guide, these vegetarian restaurants are ranked the best.

Top Ten Vegetarian Restaurants

1) Vegetarian House, San Jose - 4.55
2) Pizza Plaza, Oakland - 4.52
3) Cha-Ya, Berkeley - 4.5
4) Garden Fresh, Mtn View - 4.47
5) Good Karma, San Jose - 4.38
6) Tofoo Com Chay, San Jose - 4.29
7) Millennium, SF - 4.22
8) Shangri-La, SF - 4.20
9) Golden Lotus, Oakland - 4.14
10) The Manzanita Restaurant - 4.14

Agree or Disagree about the Top Ten? Then say something about it, with an Ultimate Guide review.

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Tis the season for red and green! And yellow and purple and orange .... Chef Alex shares her 7 favorite ways to eat tomatoes.

 

09/18 Letter Writing Party - Oakland
09/20 Silicon Valley Lunch (new) - Sunnyvale
09/21 Outreach at SF Heart Walk - SF (Justin Herman Plaza)
09/22 Native Garden + Vegan Food Party - Pacifica
09/23 Veg Leafleting at Now & Zen Festival - Golden Gate Park
09/23 Vegan Book Club Discussion: Star of The Sea - SF
09/23 Central Vegetarian Dinner (NEW Monthly event) - Alameda
09/26 Garden Fresh Vegan Dinner - Mountain View
09/27 Marin Vegan Food & Fellowship Dinner - San Rafael
09/27 Fragrance Land Dinner (NEW Monthly event) - Cupertino
09/29 FogFest Parade Leafleting - Pacifica

10/02 Lunch, Munch & Mingle - SF Farmer's Market, Ferry Building
10/06 KFC Cruelty Protest - San Jose
10/09 Happy Bamboo dinner - San Jose
10/13 Harvest Home Animal Sanctuary Work Event - Stockton
10/13 Walk for Farm Animals with BAVeg! - SF
10/13 Vegetarian House Dinner - San Jose
10/14 Grass-and-Lake Vegan Food Party - Lake Temescal (Oakland)

11/04 Food For Thought Book Club: Committed: A Rabble-Rouser's Memoir - SF

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