Bay Area Vegetarians

Ann and Cheryl distributed 200 Guides promoting vegan foods in Pacifica on 9/27.  This brings our yearly distribution count to 23,652.  Thank you Ann & Cheryl!

Carol organizes the monthly KFC Cruelty Protest in San Jose.  She shares how this started.

“After receiving disturbing information from PETA, during March 2003, about how cruelly KFC treated the chickens they serve, I decided to arrange a protest–my first! Only one person showed up! It was Mike Borg. Read the rest of this entry »

Vegi Garden, an all vegetarian Chinese restaurant in Sunnyvale, is now closed. This was one of the few veg restaurants serving dim sum.

Sunnyvale currently has 10 vegetarian restaurants now.

The Ultimate Guide Top Ten is based on user ratings from BAVeg members and the general public.  Merit Vegetarian (Sunnyvale) and Happy Bamboo (San Jose) are the newest additions to the Ultimate Guide Top Ten.

The South Bay now dominates with 70% of the Top Ten restaurants to the East Bay’s 30% with 0% to San Francisco, which has 20 vegetarian restaurants within its city limits. Read the rest of this entry »

Loving Hut, which describes itself as international fast food, opened its first Bay Area restaurant in Milpitas in July. They held their Grand Opening for the second restaurant opening in Palo Alto on Saturday, October 4th, and the Grand Opening for its 3rd location in San Francisco’s Chinatown is next weekend, Saturday October 11th.  The activities include a lion dance at 11 a.m.

Once Loving Hut opens its SF location, it will join Lucky Creation as the second vegetarian restaurant in Chinatown.

The Bay Area is now home to a vegetarian Himalayan fusion restaurant, Karma, in the Richmond district of San Francisco.  After several recent closures of veg restaurants in SF, it’s great to welcome KARMA to the Bay Area.  They opened on Sept. 8th, and are a small restaurant with very limited seating inside and a bench outside.  Their focus is primarily on takeout.

Thanks to Winnie and Nadine for the update.

Karma: Ultimate Guide – read it, rate it, review it

We remain convinced that the San Francisco Bay Area is one of the best places to live as a vegan.  Come Hither Cupcakes is proof of that.

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On the last day of summer, Alex, Mila, Venu, and Tammy distributed Vegetarian Starter Guides to 400 of the smartest and forward-thinking members of the public in San Francisco during regular street leafleting. Read the rest of this entry »

Join Bay Area Vegetarians for a special event on October 19th at 5 pm to celebrate the release of BAVeg member Patti Breitman’s new book,How to Eat Like a Vegetarian, Even If You Never Want To Be One.

Patti will be available to autograph copies of her new book, too.  (Event info) And, we’re also having a contest and you can win a copy of the book, here!  To enter, just leave us a comment in this blog by 10/19/08 5 pm PST.

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Congratulations to fellow BAVeg members, Alex* and Jack!

Vegan PETA member Alex Bury and her fiancé Jack Norris are set to say their vows on Sept. 11, where guests will be invited afterward to feast on platters of the restaurant’s new soy-based, mock-chicken Classic Vegetarian Sandwich

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9/14 Update – see the PETA blog for details and beautiful photographs

*Alex’s September cooking column was on vegan weddings, too!  You can congratulate her in person at our next Have-a-Heart, Go Veg Leafleting activity on Sept 20th