--{ i'm not a veggie... }------
...but I play one on tv. No, really, I do. Or did. Three years ago, Amy
and I blundered into a TV commercial for a vegan restaurant. Never saw
the commercial, but apparently other people saw us in it.
Anyway, so
this year I haven't been cooking with meat. Don't know how it happened,
because I never sat down and said, "I'm not gonna cook with meat," but it
has. Which is for the better, because the meat industry really is pretty
bad for the environment. (Seeing that my disapproval of meat derives more
from ecological/environmental reasons rather than animal rights/humane
treatment of animal reasons, I don't feel quite the pressure to place on
myself an absolute ban that others do, but hey.)
My friends and I
have also decided to check out all the vegetarian restaurants in the
District of Columbia area. So far we've been to
* Food for
Thought in the U Street neighborhood: which does have some meat
entrees, so it's not technically vegetarian, but also has Amy's favorite
vegan nachos. So. We all actually went there right before going to a
concert at the Black Cat. I got the vegan lasagna, but I forget what
everyone else got. Ilana got a vegan stir-fry, I think, and some
dessertey thing. The barbeque seitanwich there is great, too.
*
Soul Vegetarian Restaurant on
Georgia Ave: Super yummy! Huuuge breakfast platter on Sundays, cool
rotating dishes the rest of the week, and cheap, too! Not sure Casey was
as psyched, but Ilana and Jason and I wolfed down a lot. Ilana and Paul
and Janki and I went there again later, and again we ate like the pigs we
are. Ilana had some kind of sandwich, Janki had seitan gyros, and Paul
and I had vegan lasagna and "Jerusalem steak" (a sort of vegan salisbury
steak, as far as I could tell). Paul was like, "I'm coming back here
every night!"
* Amma
Vegetarian Kitchen in Georgetown: I want to go back there again
and
have the idli. When we were there last, we ordered a bunch of different
platters (including a spinach curry, and eggplant curry, and a dosa) and
split them; all were deeelish. And the carrot halwa was superb, too,
though it's inspired me to try to make my own.
We're going to The Vegetable Garden in
Rockville next. (A big affair, with me, Ilana, Jason, Maureen, Paul, and
Epin, at least). I'm looking forward to it, as the pictures on the web
page make me drool. And then maybe Harmony
Cafe. Paul, however, is obsessed with going to Liquid
Earth in Baltimore. Which now that I read about it, I want to
visit,
too, because its vegetarian reuben was mentioned on Homicide. Anyway,
hopefully this can be a regular thing. It has, weirdly enough, inspired
Paul to say "We should start a restaurant!" every time I see him. Yeah,
on top of being enviro attorneys.
Amy, Casey--next time any you come down to visit again, I'll have a better idea of what to recommend. Darren, Paula, David--you should visit so as to take advantage of my better hosting capabilities. ;) (Though you snobs can probably find better grub in NY and Edinburgh anyways.)
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