Downtown SF Veggie Lunch spots

[Guest guest]

Hi all,

 

Yes, I would love to hear about any great veggie restaurants in the

downtown area!! With the closure of VegTime, I don't know of any in

the downtown SF/financial area.

 

I don't eat out for lunch much (I usually brown bag it) but I've come

across these various places:

 

RINCON FOOD CORNER - Market & Spear

Arabi in Rincon center - Middle Eastern food, like hummus, tabouli,

dolmas, mjeddra, falafel, various salads (bean salads, vegetable

salads, couscous salads, etc).. they have 2 soups every day, and one

of them is usually vegan. You can pick 3 salad combo for $5.95, or a

soup & half-sandwich for $5, I think... I'd guess about 75% of the

food is vegetarian, with over 50% vegan. This place has the most

vegan options of all the downtown restaurants that I'm familiar

with.

 

Also in Rincon:

 

Chili Up - they have 1 or 2 vegan chilis

Wazwan (?) - an Indian restaurant, not sure what's vegan there, they

do have veggie stuff

 

There's other restaurants in the Food Court (Thai, Chinese, Korean)

that probably have veggie stuff but I usually go to Arabi. Rincon is

where I usually go when I'm dining with my veggie friends, or with

veggie/non-veggie friends as there's something for everyone.

 

Across the street from Rincon:

Lightening Foods - they have a veggie sandwich on the menu, and they

have a salad bar at $5.25/lb. The person I spoke to knew the

term " vegan " (which is always nice), and was quite accomodating in

finding out about dishes. Even told me they featured organic produce

(like the spinach) in their salad line up. I suggested they label

which dishes are vegan :-) I've been there only once.. While what I

picked was delicious, it was also heavy!

 

Long Life Noodle House on Steuart - they have a few veggie things on

the menu. I can't remember if any of the entrees are vegan or if you

have to request a modification to a veggie one.

 

SF Soup Company - on Mission/Beale - always has a vegan split pea

soup on their menu. They have rotating daily specials, occasionally

one of those is also veg*n. Their soups are labeled with characters

signifyiing vegetarian, non-dairy, spicy, or low-fat.

 

Burger Bistro - never been there - but I could see through the glass

front that they do have one menu of " Veggie Burgers " ...

 

There is also another Food Court in the Spear Street Tower. It used

to have a burrito place (maybe 360 burrito?) that had a few

veggie/vegan choices (if you omit cheese).. I haven't been there for

several years so I don't know if that's still true.

 

There is a Farmer's Market on Tuesday's -- Justin Herman Plaza -- I'm

told from a friend who goes there that it has lots of yummy organic

fruits as well as savory vegan pies.

 

Perhaps we could take a page out of Das' book. He works with

corporate cafeterias to get them to incorporate vegan food on their

menus. We've worked at the same company twice now, and he's done it

both times.

 

Cheers,

Tammy

 

, " pramod sanoor " <psanoor@h...> wrote:

> Can anyone

> suggest a good vegan restaurant near by.

[Guest guest]

RE: . . . list of veggie restaurants in SF. . . that having a list of

restaurants that are not vegetarian but do have veggie options

would be very, very useful. . . .

>

 

Dear Tammy, Alka, Lunch Brigade, & Everyone,

 

In the process of asking neighborhood libraries whether they

would accept some sort of Veggie Display during the month of

October, one librarian who said no said she would accept a

brochure called something like " A Resource Guide to Bay Area

Vegetarianism. " So I started to patch one together from several

lists and it's in a draft stage. I'm thinking I may just post the

unfinished draft to my web site, and anyone who's willing can

contact me with corrections, suggestions, and so on.

 

Whatever I end up with will be a single page, printed on both

sides--either a trifold brochure or folded in half. It will include (not

cover inclusively, however) restaurants, stores, organizations in

Berkeley, Oakland, and SF. Anyone who wanted to could use it

as a starting point and alter it in whatever way is most useful for

your own purposes. Seems like South Bay people could adapt it

by adding South Bay listings and dropping East Bay ones, etc.

You get the picture. I was just very happy to hear the person in

charge agree to something that could be in the library

year-round.

 

I'll try to get to this within the next few days. What I post, as I say,

needs corrections, but once finished maybe it will be helpful to

someone somehow. Hope so!

 

Cathleen