Restaurants

If you’re vegan and you’re planning to go to Checkers or Rally’s, I just want to start by apologizing on the restaurant’s behalf. Checkers/Rally’s is literally the single least vegan-friendly … Read more

BurgerFi is an interesting place for vegetarians and vegans. They actually have multiple “veggie burger” options. But be careful if you’re vegan like me—one of the veggie burgers contains cheese … Read more

Freddy’s only offers a few vegan options—but when one of those options is a vegan black bean burger, things could be worse, right? Overall, it’s not a bad place to … Read more

I recently went to Dave and Buster’s with a friend. We just played arcade games and didn’t even try eating, as I assumed there were no good vegan options. But … Read more

For a regional convenience store, Sheetz has a surprising amount of vegan options. In 2019, they became the first convenience store chain to offer the Beyond Burger in the U.S. … Read more

Old Chicago doesn’t have any options for vegan pizza. Even if you remove the cheese, the crust is still not vegan. Disappointing, right? But fortunately, when you look through the … Read more

Taco Time would not be my top choice when it comes to Mexican restaurants. Del Taco and Taco Cabana have way more options with all their Beyond Meat offerings. But … Read more

Ruby Tuesday is one of the many restaurant chains that has added a vegan burger in recent years. But that’s just one of the many vegan-friendly choices here. As someone … Read more

Getting vegan Tex-Mex and Mexican food is getting easier and easier. On the Border hasn’t yet followed the lead of Del Taco or Taco Cabana in offering Beyond Meat… But … Read more

Italian restaurants are not too bad as a vegan. Typically, you’ve at least got bread and pasta with marinara sauce, so you can fill up. Macaroni Grill is even a … Read more

Taco Cabana is pretty great for vegans since they’ve added Beyond Meat. However, there are still some traps to watch out for, including non-vegetarian refried beans. With 14 years of … Read more

Perkins may not seem vegan-friendly at first. There are lots of meat dishes, and a few items that could be vegan, like their oatmeal and rice pilaf, contain milk—so that’s … Read more

I remember how I first found Potbelly. There was a neighborhood I lived in where everyone used the Potbelly bathroom because it was the only free, public restroom. Kind of … Read more

Italian restaurants aren’t usually too bad for vegans. There’s always pasta and marinara, if nothing else. I would say Buca di Beppo is not quite as good as other Italian … Read more

Eating at a “steakhouse” sounds like a bad idea for a vegan, doesn’t it? Well, you might be surprised about Longhorn Steakhouse. Sure, they don’t have any seitan steak or … Read more

Panda Express used to have no vegan options at all. But after successful petitions and campaigns by animal welfare orgs in 2019, they introduced a whole slew of vegan dishes. … Read more

More and more burger chains are offering vegan burgers these days. But unfortunately, In-N-Out is not one of those chains. They still have no vegan burger. Actually, out of all … Read more

Qdoba is an interesting place for vegans. Not only do they have menu items with “Vegan” in the name, but they offer Impossible “vegan meat” and even a sort of … Read more

I remember as a new vegan, I read online that pretzels are made using animal urine as a browning agent… Yuck! Luckily, it turns out that wasn’t really true (details … Read more

Wienerschnitzel is a restaurant with a pretty cool name, but not many vegan options at all. It’s actually one of the least vegan-friendly restaurants I’ve ever researched. Most meat-based chain … Read more