Bay Area Vegetarians

As reported earlier, this formerly vegan restaurant has re-opened.

There has been some remodelling to both its restaurant structure and menu, as they have added a second menu serving sea animals; at this time, the second menu has 5 items. The primary vegan menu has about 20 different items including food, drinks, and MaggieMudd vegan ice cream.

White Lotus, a Vietnamese vegetarian restaurant in San Jose, has closed. Thanks to lauren for this update.

New raw/living foods restaurant on the Peninsula in San Mateo.

Nook Cafe – San Francisco

Mixt Greens – San Francisco

Powersource Juice Bar – San Francisco

Spice Hut Indian Bistro – Menlo Park

Holy Gelato – San Francisco

Relatively new all veggie restaurant in Sunnyvale on Bernardo/just off El Camino Real.

This all vegan restaurant in the Crocker Galleria in SF’s financial district closed earlier this month.

Sadly, it will reopen mid-March but as a lunch time only restaurant, and will not be vegetarian.

Several months ago we reported that Asian Rose, a popular Sri Lankan vegetarian restaurant in Santa Cruz, had closed and would re-open on Front Street. Asian Rose served foods deli-style, offering a wonderful and tasty variety of foods at inexpensive prices. Its sister restaurant, Malabar, offered dinner service featuring a menu of similar foods.

Both ventures have been combined into the relaunched Asian Rose, now at 514 Front Street and open daily, is again open & serving delicious food.

Parawdise, a raw restaurant in SF, has gone through sporadic and limited hours in recent months, causing several reports of permanent closure. At this time, the phone number is disconnected.

Lydia’s Lovin’ Foods, which was the only vegetarian restaurant in Marin, closed its restaurant doors on January 22nd. It will be focused on its dehydrated foods product line and catering festivals and fairs.

Typically the Ultimate Guide News reports only on veg businesses. We made an exception for Paradise in San Rafael. This restaurant originally started as a veg Vietnames restaurant, with a menu similar to Golden Era. Then they changed the menu so it was partially veg. And now they have closed.

Cafe Gratitude currently has 3 locations (two in SF and one in Berkeley). It’s fourth restaurant in San Rafael is scheduled to open February 12th.

It now looks like both locations are now closed. Asia Rose closed in June after they lost the lease to the building. They told us they’d be moving to Front Street by the end of 2006, but it looks like it’s been delayed, and that they will be relocating the main restaurant, Malabar Cafe, there too. Quick pre-made food during the day and then fine dining during the evening. They estimate they’ll be open by the end of January.