Restaurant News

Hip-hop icon and vegan activist RZA recently teamed up with plant-based cheese giant Violife for the 2021 Plant Grants program, and the winners were just unveiled. The partnership announced that it would select five Black-owned restaurants to receive $20,000 each to aid plant-based menu development and enhance community outreach efforts. The program will extend...

Internationally esteemed Michelin-starred chef Alain Ducasse is opening a new restaurant in Paris, and the menu is almost entirely plant-based. Sapid – Ducasse’s new fine dining establishment –  will be “95 percent” plant-based, according to the chef. The upscale menu will deviate fro...

Historically, consumers would be pressed to find a vegetarian or vegan restaurant awarded with the highly coveted Michelin star. With minimal exceptions, the Michelin judges would rarely award plant-forward menus with the respected reward. This year, however, Michelin judges awarded 57 vegetarian and 24 vegan restaurants with the star ranking...

Monty’s Good Burger in Los Angeles has become a beloved staple for vegan fast food. And for those seeking a meat-burger doppelganger, Monty’s leads the pack. With four locations currently in LA — Beverly Grove, Echo Park, Koreatown, and Riverside — its burger and milkshake empire continues to expand with a fifth location opening soon in Culver City. It’s understandable...

Los Angeles-based chain The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf just announced it will introduce its first vegan meat option to 122 locations across California. The new breakfast sandwich will feature Beyond Meat’s vegan sausage patties, marking the first time the company has partnered with a plant-based protein company. The Beyo...

Acclaimed chef Josef Centeno just dropped dairy cheese from the most popular dishes at his Los Angeles-based Tex-Mex restaurant Bar Ama. Centeno – who holds a Michelin star awarded for his other LA restaurant Orsa & Winston – announced that he teamed up with vegan dairy company So Delicious to incorporate plant-based cheese to his menu. The nominee fo...

Celebrity chef and restaurateur Matthew Kenney is planning to launch two new vegan restaurants in Baltimore, Maryland. On July 1st, Kenney will open his two restaurants – Double Zero and Liora – under the Matthew Kenney Cuisine parent company. The two plant-b...

California-based Chaumont Bakery and Café opened the doors of its new Chaumont Vegan, a spin-off bakery that will specialize in plant-based French pastries. Founded by Frederic Laski and Laila Abddaim, the bakery’s mission is centered around bringing traditional French pastries to people who follow a plant-based diet, because so much of traditional French baked goods such as croissants and pain su

The thought of a drive-thru typically brings to mind a cheeseburger and milkshake, but Chef Mathew Kenney of Plant City X is rethinking fast-casual fare. For Kenney, fast and casual doesn’t mean you have to skimp on quality, nutrition, or sticking to a whole-foods, plant-based diet. P...

There’s one easy way to support restaurants when they need it most: When you need a quick and healthy meal, show some love: Order in from your favorite plant-based restaurant. When it comes to the plant-based landscape, there’s no shortage of spectacular places in every state and now Yelp is prepared to help you find them. Just in time for Veganuary, Yelp has released...