A recap of my awesome vegan Portland meals, just in case you missed any…
Nutshell * Flavour Spot * Blossoming Lotus * Farm Cafe * Tin Shed * Voodoo Doughnut * Kinta Malaysian * Veganopolis * Vita Cafe
Hopefully this list will grow someday when I get to sample more of what the vegan mecca of PDX has to offer!
Great re-cap!!
DROOL, sounds like the most scrumptious vacation ever. I’m hoping to make it up to Oregon in the fall, so I will definitely use all your posts as a culinary guide! GRACIAS, senorita!
[...] readily available to us. If we lived in West Los Angeles or Silverlake, or Portland (see FoodEaters tantalizing descriptions of her travels), we’d have many more options. If gas wasn’t $4/gallon…. or if we could stomach [...]
I think the thing I love about Portland re: vegan love is that in this town, you don’t feel compelled to “have to support” the all-vegan or purportedly extra-vegan-friendly places just because they’re there–like you would in some midwestern or southern town. That is–if the food isn’t up to snuff. There are enough of us here who love food enough that nobody has to put up with any more uninspired, dried-out old hippie type stuff (amongst which, sadly, I’d include several of the places you list). Instead, almost every restaurant and cart offers vegan food, so you’re able to not feel ghettoised and can simply go for the best food possible–change from “within the system,” which I guess I personally feel is the most likely to get people to consider vegan food as real food, and then discover the ethical potential therein second.
So next time you’re in town, make sure to read up on stumptownvegans.com as they do an admirable job of covering vegan food at all restaurants (not just the explicitly vegan-centric ones) and then especially be sure to scour http://foodcartsportland.com because for my money (literally and figuratively) the carts are where it’s at–incredibly high-quality food of almost every possible sort, an intimate interaction with owner-cook-proprietors, remarkable prices, and ever-increasing vegan awareness and support. They haven’t yet reviewed the best vegan Thai in town, though–Just Thai, a cart at 3rd and Washington downtown–don’t miss them!