Vegan Temple Bar is a sweet little restaurant with indoor and outdoor seating, and it was busy even early on a Monday evening — once we sampled the food, it was clear why. In addition to wine and beer, we had vegan chicken Alfredo and the BBQ chicken burger with fries and mayo on the …
Amsterdam has several amazing places for snacks, pastries, and soft serve in the city center, including Margo’s, Saint-Jean, and Green Farmer’s. We visited all three. We began with Margo’s, where we got a pistachio brioche, which was buttery, flaky, and filled with pistachio cream. It was mostly sweet, a little salty, and absolutely amazing. We …
We were thrilled to find the vegan cafe Origin in the middle of the gorgeous village of Strasbourg, which has several other vegan and vegan-friendly restaurants — but we were in the mood for pastries and sweets, and this all-vegan patisserie did not disappoint. Origin does have yummy-looking veggie sandwiches, as well as a lovely …
I have not yet seen Abe’s products locally, but I’m now going to start prowling all the grocery stores because now that I’ve had this amazing coffee cake, I’m a bit addicted. While the word “vegan” doesn’t come up often on the Abe’s website, which promotes its products as allergy friendly, it looks as though …
I was first drawn to the lovely packaging of these Green Girl Bakeshop icebox sandwiches … and then I saw they were vegan and had to try them. These goodies (Green Girl offers not only icebox sandwiches but pints of gelato) are made for not only vegans but those with food allergies: all are dairy …
We were, as always, thrilled to visit Voodoo Doughnuts while in Eugene, Oregon. While Voodoo isn’t an all-vegan shop, the whole bottom shelf has its vegan goodies, and it’s an impressive (and delicious) selection. We chose four doughnuts (they offer a vegan dozen, but there were only two of us, so we exercised a bit …
I was happy to find these Simply vegan, non-GMO snacks in the candy aisle (because they are made with dates, they’re healthy, right?!). These little snacks taste like candy, but I do think they’re in fact a bit healthier than that. They have quite a lot of sugar, but they also have a smidge of …
It was all about mushrooms at this spring’s first (but not last!) Eugene VeganFest, where we got to taste this amazing mushroom chocolate. We sampled the Garden Mint and Oat Milk Chocolate varieties, and both were so good we immediately bought several of each. It’s especially lovely to have vegan milk chocolate, which can be …
From Halloween to the New Year, we’ve enjoyed YumEarth‘s vegan candies. This company focuses on allergy-free products, and many of these goodies are vegan. The YumEarth gummy fruits come in bears, bunnies, and other varieties — and are delicious. An omnivore friend is hooked on them now, claiming they are better than non-vegan gummy candy. …
Long ago, we reviewed Unreal‘s crispy vegan peanut butter cups, but we had not yet tried these: dark chocolate almond butter and dark chocolate peanut butter. Like the other ones, these come in adorable little packets with one cup each (we hate the extra wrapping, but it’s probably to avoid melting and ending up with …
As big fans of all flavors of Nada Moo ice cream, we were excited to find these “frozen snack bites” next to the Nada Moo pints. Naturally, we had to try them. These mochi-like bites are described by Nada Moo as having a “plant-based coating & creamy coconut milk core.” There only six per bag …
We’ve long been fans of Cocomels, makers of some of the best vegan caramel around. (The dark chocolate caramels are delicious.) Now you can enjoy vegan caramel with milk chocolate, thanks to their new oat milk toffee and caramel bites. The bites are wonderful, stick-to-your-teeth caramels, with all the creaminess of a delicious milk chocolate …
After enjoying the Tahitian Vanilla Sammie, we found another Cool Haus dairy free flavor, at another local grocery: cookies and cream! This one is a chocolate lover’s dream. The cookie is a decadent double chocolate, and the ice cream is not a mix of vanilla and cookies (which is usually the case) but a consistent …
A friend alerted me to these Coolhaus dairy free ice cream sandwiches, and I will be forever grateful. They are magnificent. If you love vanilla, you’ll adore these ice cream sammies. Best of all, unlike many cookies that adorn ice cream sandwiches rather as an afterthought, these cookies are actually one of the highlights of …
I randomly discovered these at Trader Joe’s — yet another important reminder to slow down and look at everything in the store because you never know when Trader Joe’s will come up with some delightful new snack. This wonderful candied popcorn taste so much like Reece’s Pieces, which I haven’t had in decades but had …