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Cafe Sunflower: Atlanta,GA
I’m suspicious of weird food combinations. So I resisted the Sunflower pizza (endive, dates, capers, artichoke hearts, walnut pesto), but my server said it was his favorite thing on the menu. In the...
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The Wedge: Oklahoma City, OK
Every city has its pockets of coolness. (Austin, my hometown, is so darn hip it only has pockets of un-coolness.) Oklahoma City has Deep Deuce, a historically black neighborhood close to downtown...
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Watercourse: Denver, CO
Watercourse has something for everyone: cheesy nachos for vegetarians who want something indulgent, salads and smoothies for those detoxing, and a hearty pasta dish for those who wandered in, not...
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Congress: Austin, TX
I once stayed at a lovely old hotel in Bruges, Belgium where they required all guests to eat one meal at their restaurant. My obligatory meal involved multiple courses of wild rice. In a salad, in a...
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Riffs: Boulder, CO
If you’re vegetarian, you’ve probably, at least once in your life, been taken to a place (say a steakhouse in the Midwest) where you don’t want/can’t eat/won’t eat a thing on the menu. Where even the...
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Native Foods Cafe: Boulder, CO
I love small, independent restaurants, ideally with someone eccentric (like the Swedish Chef from Sesame Street) in the kitchen. But, if we’re going to feed the planet’s seven billion a sustainable...
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Departure: Portland, OR
Rooftop restaurants sound cheesy to me. I always wonder if they’ll revolve. And I expect only dreary decor and forgettable food. Departure, at the top of The Nines hotel, looks like the sleek, sexy...
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Andina: Portland, OR
I cook quinoa pretty often. Both a grain and a protein, quinoa is an easy choice for the unambitious vegetarian cook. The folks at Andina in Portland start with quinoa, and end up with this: Behold:...
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Natural Selection: Portland, OR
Natural Selection, a tiny restaurant in Portland’s hip and fun Alberta Street neighborhood, has beautiful botanical prints of vegetables on the walls. Reminder: a head of red cabbage is actually quite...
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Farm Cafe: Portland, OR
Portland has an amazing number of vegetarian/vegan restaurants (great list here: http://stumptownvegans.com). But what if you’re traveling with an omnivore? And he’d like a break from the forced march...
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