Bay Area Vegetarians

A third San Francisco location of Cafe Gratitude will arrive near the corner of Mission and 18th Street (next door to the 99-cent store).

[via Eater]

Thanks to Eric for letting us know that Deedee’s Indian Fast Food merely moved to Santa Clara, not closed.

Ultimate Guide – read it, rate it, review it!

Wild Greens, closed its doors on August 1st, less than 6 months after it opened.

Thanks to sevachef and Eric for the update.

Ultimate Guide – Wild Greens

A new vegan restaurant opened in Milpitas last month called Loving Hut.  Beautiful website includes a photo menu.  Emphasis is on Vietnamese cuisine, but also includes a few western dishes like burgers or spaghetti.

Loving Hut:  Ultimate Guide – read it, rate it, review it

Thanks to Winnie for the update.

Deedee’s Indian Fast Food, located in Mountain View, is closed. Thanks to Dan for the update.

There are still over 30 entirely vegetarian restaurants in the South Bay.  So check ’em out and post your ‘feed’back in an Ultimate Guide review.

Usual Suspects Cafe had a very brief but interesting life span in SF.  On May 30th, we announced the newly opened vegetarian restaurant.  Barely a month later, on July 3rd, we issued an advisory to call the restaurant to confirm opening after the original chefs left.  It continued with vegan Russian food.  Now there’s no food, but still open mic.  The Usual Suspects Cafe was definitely an oddity in the history of vegetarian restaurants in the SF Bay Area.

Bok Choy Garden, a vegetarian Chinese restaurant in San Francisco’s Richmond district, is closing on Thursday, July 31st.  Thanks to Michael for the update.

Interestingly, Bok Choy Garden is one of the older vegetarian restaurants in San Francisco. It changed ownership in November 2006.  Shortly after this, Layonna’s, also a Chinese Vegetarian restaurant, opened directly across the street.   Layonna’s closed in November 2007.  Now, eight months later, farewell to Bok Choy Garden.

Ultimate Guide information – Bok Choy Garden

An update from Millennium (7/19 via mailing list)

Convert A Carnivore: Now twice a week instead of monthly.  25% discount when dining with a carnivore.

Millennium is no long serving bottled water for environmental reasons.  Instead, they are offering filtered water.  “A charge of *$1/per seated guests affords an endless supply of fresh carbon & UV filtered water served chilled, room temperature or sparkling.” and “*This dollar ensures regular visits from the H2O Technicians of Natura, the highest quality of carbon filter changes & UV light bulb maintenance.  Regular tap water will not longer be available.”  (Highlighting added)

I wonder if you can take home your leftover water  ..  waiter, can you please fill up my 5 gallon jug …

Millennium – read it, rate it, review it!

The East Bay gains another new vegetarian restaurant with Tofu Yu.  Tofu Yu’s goal is to introduce international vegetarian tofu food to the East Bay and San Francisco Bay Area communities has opened in Berkeley, and plans to open a 2nd location in the next few weeks in El Cerrito.

Tofu Yu in the Ultimate Guide – read it, rate it, review it

Thanks to Sara for this update.

For anyone planning to dine at the Usual Suspects Cafe, due to staff changes, please call ahead to confirm they are open. We know how disappointing it is to make a special trip to a new restaurant and find them closed, etc.
Now serving vegan Russian homestyle foods.

Usual Suspects Cafe: Ultimate Guide information – read it, rate it, review it

Thanks to Warren for the update.