my room mate has a subscription to this magazine called time out new york. 
time out new york basically is a hipster guide to new york city. anyway, in last week's issue, they had a 'chef tells all' article.

80% of all chefs surveyed said their restaurant's food labeled vegetarian or vegan was in fact so.
BUT THIS MEANS 20% OF NYC RESTAURANTS ARE ( Read more... )

According to Bay Area Vegetarians, Shangri-La and Bok Choy Garden have been lying to vegans about the ingredients in their food. I can't find the exact offense for Shangri-La (there are a lot of emails going around the Yahoo! groups list), but I believe it involved eggs. Bok Choy Garden, on top of using hydrogenated oils (not a vegan problem, but ( Read more... )

I'm mostly posting this in the rare (or maybe no so rare) event that any poor Seattle vegans may continue to be deceived as I was, but also for input on whether I ought to do anything about it, and if so, exactly how ( Read more... )

There has long been a rumor that items at Orean's Vegetarian Express in Pasadena, CA has items which are not vegan but are being billed as vegan to those who ask ( Read more... )

So today I was talking to a friend of mine who used to work at Sweetwater Tavern, a 'fancy' chain that's owned by Great American Restaurants, some big business thingy that 'serves' the Washington, DC area. She worked there for just a little while until they fired her for dying her hair. Today we were talking, and she mentioned that literally ( Read more... )

from living vegan, an update to their inquiries as to the ingredients of CA-based vegan restaurants after a tip-off

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someone asked awhile back if the Extreme Pizza soy pizza and cheese-less pizzas were vegan ( Read more... )

Los Angeles Vegan Restaurants Exposed

Thursday June 15th two livingvegan.org members decided to follow up on something a former employee of the "Vegan" chains of restaurants told them, that some of the menu items were not vegan.

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forgive me for this and any other post that's full of tags ( Read more... )