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PLANT-UP ANYWHERE Veganism is now widely established, so whether you’ve made the leap or are vegan-travel-curious, dip into this directory of ideas for worldwide inspiration Mr & Mrs Watson in Amsterdam. Left: 100 per cent organic jackfruit carnitas taco bowl at Gracias Madre, LA Jaffa sunset surfers in Tel Aviv. Right: Vegan Pastrami with homemade sauces and fresh vegetables at Krowarzywa, Warsaw. Opposite: The mac pack (mac’n’ creamy cashew cheese) with truffle & mushroom, sundried tomato & olive, and garlic & onion, at Parka Food Co, Toronto PHOTOGRAPH: PARKA FOOD CO PHOTOGRAPHS: WESSEL DE GROOT, PEETER VIISIMAA/GETTY IMAGES 80 January 2020 January 2020 81 Downtown Los Angeles VEGAN TRAVEL from Lincoln Heights. Left: South East Asian traveller bowl from Rupert’s Street, London APPS FOR YOUR TRIP F HappyCow App mapping vegan and vegan-friendly LONDON, MILAN, ITALY LOS ANGELES, The Dutch Weed Burger: TOP EATS even greater proportion the world, and plant- restaurants and stores ENGLAND If you know where to USA the latter more innocent F Eden Bistro under 35, regularly opt based is a way of life, so worldwide. There seem to be vegan look, there are dedicated LA respects all those than it sounds (it’s a A temple of creative for vegan meat think beyond hummus happycow.net options in easy range of outlets offering vegan who consider the body a ‘House of Seaweed’). vegan food and organic alternatives, and and falafels and prepare every Tube stop: fancy burgers with pink buns temple. If Los Angelenos TOP EATS wine. Try its delicious Toronto’s chefs are to be wowed. F V Cards: Vegan Ethiopian, Caribbean, or Michelin-starred don’t have a plant- F Vegan Junk Food Bar take on laksa noodles. catering for plant-centric TOP EATS Abroad Asian or Japanese vegan haute cuisine in friendly lifestyle, This bar serves healthy The leafy ambiance is eating like never before. F Sultana Free app with scripts in cuisine? What about the ultra-stylish locations, they’re familiar with it. ‘junk food’. Plant-based not just for show – it sells TOP EATS For that roasted-meat-on- more than 100 world’s first vegan not to mention super- TOP EATS burgers are best-known, plants and some of the F Parka Food Co. a-spit experience (minus languages explaining chicken shop? Even fresh vegetables. F Crossroads but you can also have artisan ceramics that the Burgers made from the flesh), head to that you’re vegan and Pizza Hut offers vegan TOP EATS At this favourite of movie sashimi made from food is served on. 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The husband- cocktails and buffalo- Named after the couple Czesław Przybylski. mushroom and garlic and wild mushrooms, plus F Vanilla Bean regularly, highlighting and-wife team offer style maitake mushrooms who coined the term facebook.com/eden. onion; thick, flavourful a smattering of salads Plant-Based Food seasonal produce – you reinterpreted dishes from or vegan sliders. ‘veganism’, this restaurant bistroo soups. Everything’s made and pickles. Free app mapping could try celeriac and their homeland, Eritrea, crossroadskitchen.com serves plant-based F Krowarzywa from scratch using local facebook.com/ vegan, raw and potato cottage pie or like creamy lentil stew F Gracias Madre, comfort food. The menu This burger specialist with ingredients. There are Sultanavegan/ gluten-free options, beetroot and chickpea and spicy samosas. Pay Los Angeles includes sloppy joe chilli a contemporary look and lots of gluten-free options. F 416 mainly in Europe and burgers. 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Expect dishes a booklet, compiled starred venue with a some dishes, most of the gracias-madre.com believe it’s not real! smoothies and juices. like mushroom schnitzel by The Vegan Society, vegan tasting menu. food at this one-Michelin- watsonsfood.com TORONTO, Fresh has five locations baguette, vegan this explains dietary Chef Alexis Gauthier starred restaurant is AMSTERDAM, CANADA across the city; Queen shawarma and even juicy preferences in turned vegan in 2016 vegan. Swiss-born chef NETHERLANDS WARSAW, Vegan neighbourhood, Street West is the original. seitan steak, served in a languages understood Daddy McChik’n at Vegan and converted the Pietro Leeman’s food There are plenty of vegan ‘Vegandale’ is a freshrestaurants.ca pan with potatoes and by 96% of the world’s POLAND Junk Food Bar in Amsterdam. vegetable tasting menu philosophy is Zen-like offerings in Amsterdam The 50-odd vegan dedicated block of vegan onions. This guilt-free population. Above: Anacronismo (bavarois to ‘Vegan Menu: Les and, fittingly, his food – Vietnamese, Japanese, restaurants here include food, goods and services with porcini and pumpkin, TEL AVIV, indulgence makes 416 vegansociety.com/ Plantes’. It’s been a has to be experienced Caribbean – along with Mexican, sushi, burgers, and its own touring salad, and crust of white polenta ISRAEL popular with vegans and resources/lifestyle/ fixture ever since. to be believed. restaurants such as French bakeries and festival. More than half flavoured with cumin) at Joia, Milan Israel has the highest non-vegans alike. travel/vegan-passport gauthiersoho.co.uk joia.it Meatless District and Polish comfort food. of Canadians, and an CHONES/SHUTTERSTOCK STREET, SARAH BARDSLEY/RUPERT’S PHOTOGRAPHS: proportion of vegans in 416.co.il 82 January 2020 January 2020 83 VEGAN TRAVEL NEW YORK local ingredients, not to juices and craft beers F Towzen CITY, USA mention a lot of vegan from Parisian brewery A 20-minute bus ride Whether you’re looking retreats in glorious BapBap. Seasonal veg, from the city centre, in a for vegan restaurant tropical locations. seeds and edible flowers house near Shimogamo- chains, fine dining, TOP EATS are used in dishes like jinja shrine, TowZen is burgers, crêpes or F Seeds of Life roast plantains with famous for its robust doughnuts, New York In the spiritual heartland coconut milk and vegan ramen. Two City wholeheartedly of Ubud, this raw vegan polenta, a black-bean- must-try varieties are embraces your needs. café serves some of the and-wild-rice burger, musashi (a thick soy-milk, Though the Upper West most creative vegan food and roast pineapple with kelp and soy-sauce broth Side may have limited anywhere: fermented carob foam. Gluten-free with sansho¯ pepper, choices, other veggie sliders, creamy- options are plentiful. yuba slices, mushrooms neighbourhoods have sour laksa soup with abattoirvegetal.fr and acidic plum paste), the city’s go-get-’em courgette noodles, F Raw Cakes and tantanmen, which attitude – a ‘vegetable beetroot ‘rawvioli’. A pretty lavender and uses the same broth but slaughterhouse’, for The place is also known fuchsia-pink façade with chilli paste and instance – and where for its elaborate health fronts this much- soya-meat. else on Earth would you tonics with ingredients welcomed café and cake mamezen.com find a café with vegan such as peony root shop where everything sleeping-pods for when and astragalus. is 100 per cent vegan, PORTLAND, you need a nap? theseedsoflifecafe.com gluten-free and raw. OREGON, USA TOP EATS F Kokolato Enticing nut and The vegan dedication is BLOGS F The Cinnamon Snail This Ubud vegan gelato chickpea burgers, strong in Portland. It has Top to bottom: Mushroom F Breakfast burritos, French company’s desserts are veggie-packed pizzas an entire mall that’s The Nomadic Vegan skewer in a pitta, Sultana, toast… it’s all heavenly served in restaurants and meal-sized salads Wendy Werneth has Tel Aviv; stone path, Ubud; vegan, hosts a vegan visited more than 100 The Cinnamon Snail vegan at this New York truck. across the island in rub shoulders on the summer camp, sells countries, collating her food truck, New York City You want a Beastmode flavours such as smoky menu with fresh juices, vegan furniture, destination-specific Burger Deluxe? It’s a vanilla, raw cacao and smoothies and exquisite there’s a vegan punk vegan tips on an grilled ancho chilli seitan turmeric-ginger-lime. uncooked cakes. There’s club, a critically interactive world map. burger with a stack of kokolato.com always a full house for acclaimed fine thenomadicvegan.com relishes and sides, on a Sunday brunch.