Re:Question of the week:

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RE: Question of the week:

 

 

http://www.yelp.com/biz/red-herring-vegetarian-restaurant-urbana

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RE: Question of the week:

What restaurants have vegetarian foods...?

 

 

     If any of you are ever near the University of Illinois campus in Urbana,

Illinois, there is a cool little place that only has lunch (I think there is an

evening meal on certain days) during the week-days, is only open during the

school year--but it serves vegetarian/vegan food only.

    It's a funky little place in the basement level of a large, old house --you

have to enter thru the " back door " and go down the stairs to get to it.  Looks

like a kinda " hippy place " --very informal, and university students often are

regular customers.  The staff is (so I've heard) mostly volunteer--kind of a

co-operative enterprise.  They serve a limited menu that changes daily and it's

all vegetarian, usually completely vegan, and most of the time " natural and

organic " and, when possible, local food.

     I used to live close enough to go to Urbana (and the adjacent city of

Champaign) fairly often.  I've eaten at the Red Herring Coffee House in Urbana

at least twice.  The food is GOOD.  This is the place to go if you have doubts

that vegetarian food can be tasty and satisfying.

 

     I've provided here a link to more information about the Red Herring.  If

you read the reviews on the page, just know that " Chambana " is a squishing of

" Champaign " and " Urbana " , Urbana being where the restaurant is located, but

Champaign is the conjoined-twin city that flows into and out of Urbana--you

hardly know where one ends and the other begins!  Also, in the review that

mentions " other local restaurants on the Nevada-Oregon circuit " , they're talking

about the STREETS named " Oregon " and " Nevada " --the Red Herring is between those

2 streets on South Lincoln Ave. in Urbana. 

 

     It has a strange atmosphere, but really good food--not too expensive,

either!  Good and vegetarian!  Heres' one of the links from Google:

http://www.yelp.com/biz/red-herring-vegetarian-restaurant-urbana

 

Best regards,

--Laura B., from Illinois (unfortunately, we've moved too far away to get to

this place very often!)

 

 

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

I used to live in Urbana! I wish I had known about the place then.

Sounds YUMMY!!!

 

, " L.B. " <elbee577 wrote:

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