Dallas Vegan Restaurants

Since moving back to Dallas, I have discovered a ton of cool vegan restaurants or vegan friendly places to eat. I'll be adding to this list as I find more, but here they are:

Cafe Elite
has a full vegan menu
located in Plano

Bliss Cafe
Raw Cafe with pizza, sandwiches,  "Rawsagna", tacos, burgers

Loving Hut
All vegan with quesadillas, wraps, sandwiches, sloppy joes, chili, pizza, pasta,  & vegan sushi

Dream Cafe 
Tofu Scramble called "you're so vegan"

Cosmic Cafe - Vegan/Vegetarian
tacos, stir fry, indian dishes & pizza

Pizza by Marco
Pizza with vegan cheese & meats

Pizza Lounge
Vegan Grilled Cheese
Vegan Brat
Menu indicates vegan options

Veggie Garden
Vegan Chinese food with zero meat

Nana Restaurant
Fine Dining in the Anatole w/ vegan options

Z pizza
Pizza with vegan cheese

New Start Veggie Garden
"Steak" with mushroom gravy, lasagna, noodle dishes, veggie sushi, & deserts

Anvil Pub
Nachos w/ vegan chili
Loaded Cheese Fries
Vegan Chili

Zen Sushi
Vegan Sushi options

Sweet Tomatoes
Salad Bar / Soups

Salata
Salad bar / wraps

The blog is back

I missed a few days of updating due to moving and getting settled in here in Dallas, but I'm back and have tons of updating to do. There are plenty of vegan places to eat and tons of whole foods and boutique grocery stores. I live in the suburbs, but I work near downtown so I'll get to experience a wide variety of restaurants. I've been to some awesome places already that I'll have to update about this week.

Goodbye Memphis, Hello Dallas! 

Elvis has left the building...

Over the past week my blog post have slowed down quite a bit. The reason for this is that I'm no longer a memphian, but have relocated to Dallas! Dallas is my hometown and I'm happy to be back. The city also has a good amount of vegan options restaurants for me to explore. Stay tuned for some of those visits!

Also, Check out the site dallasvegan.com! Pretty awesome!

Tom Delonge - Vegan shoes

No Meat? No Cheese?

There are two answers to these two questions for me.
1st - Why do I not eat meat?
The mistreatment and abuse of animals is unacceptable. The factories that cram chickens in close quarters, pump cows full of steroids, and prod pigs around have no respect for those animals.  There are plenty of behind the scenes footage of these incidences and watching any of those videos shows people bullying around these poor animals.
Would you want your household pet treated this way?

Besides the abuse side of the argument, it's healthier to have a plant-based diet. There is a handy book called "The China Study" by T. Collin Campbell & Thomas Campbell that covers how our food habits are linked to cancer, heart disease, and diabetes.

So the next question usually is why not eat the hippy farm chicken, pork, & beef that is not shot up with steriods and has cows drinking mimosas in a field while listening to beethoven their entire life? 
I don't believe any animals should be slaughtered for our food, regardless of how awesome their life was.

So what about fish?
Regardless of cognitive ability or abundance, I don't believe any animal should be slaughtered for our food.

2nd - Why do I not eat dairy?
I have a few reasons for this question as well. Firstly, although the cows are not being slaughtered to provide us the milk, they are still mistreated. They are also pumped full of chemicals so that they produce way more milk than they are actually supposed to. Also, by the time the milk is pasteurized to kill all of the puss, dirt, bacteria, & poo in it they have to refortify it with calcium and vitamin D so you are actually getting something out of it. 

Fender Pawnshop Series

Okay, Fender, get out of my head! Seriously! The new Fender pawnshop series is ridiculous. One of my favorite things to do is come up with whacked out fender models that don't exist but should. Fender climbed right inside my brain on this one. I am totally going to pick one of these puppies up. I love that Fender is putting out inventive guitars like this. They seem to be pushing the envelope a lot recently. It's great to see a classic guitar company that is not just relying on their tried and true staples of their brand, but is coming out with affordable, rockin' guitars that are unique and super vibey! Thank you Fender!

If you want to steal some of my ideas come and get'm:

Morrissey - Meat is Murder Interview