One of the nicest places you could ever hope to have a comfort food experience is Sage Plant-Based Bistro.
With three locations throughout the Greater Los Angeles area, Sage is the perfect dining spot to make your Californian adventure extra special.
Last year I had a truly sensational meal with my buddy Patricia in the Culver City location, while a few weeks ago Gil and I ordered a whole bunch off the Echo Park menu.
The Brussels sprouts had us pushing each other out of the way and my strawberry shake was too creamy for this horrible world. We don’t deserve treats this nice.
Check out our feast below and be sure to follow Sage on Instagram.
Doisy & Dam have been making cute chocolates for a few years but they have totally taken things to a new level by releasing vegan-friendly nut butter cups.
I have teamed up with a respected and established cruise company to create a new vegan cruise arm of their business!
I am the Director of Development for Vegan Culinary Cruises, a high end luxury vegan vacation specialist with a focus on fine dining.
We have two cruises planned for 2020 so far including an LGBT-friendly (all welcome) vegan cruise on the Mekong through Vietnam and Cambodia, plus a late summer general vegan cruise in the south of France.
I’m thrilled to be on all cruises as the group leader and I can’t wait to experience these destinations with likeminded people!
If you have been toying with the idea of visiting Mexico City but need an extra slice of motivation, check out this Instagram post from my feed this week.
Forest Green Rovers is already recognised by FIFA and UEFA as the world’s greenest football club but they have now gone a step further.
The club has unveiled its dazzling new uniform, a world first made with bamboo!
The new kit features zebra print and the shirts are the first football shirts on the planet to be made with bamboo.
This year’s uniforms use a 50% bamboo mix which significantly reduces the use of plastic. Working with its uniform partner PlayerLayer, the intention is to further develop this revolutionary approach to create 100% sustainable high-performance sportswear.
This season’s new home jersey is resplendent in a striking green and black zebra pattern, and the away jersey adopts a black-on-black zebra look. The home and away design will last for two seasons.
Modeled by players Joseph Mills, Ashleigh Watson, Kacie Anderson, and Shawn McCoulsky
Both jerseys feature FGR’s internet-infamous three stars, which signify the club’s ambition to reach the UK Championship division, the highest in English football, with one star coloured in to mark promotion to the Football League in 2017, and two greyed out to represent the steps needed to reach its goal. The club came close to filling in another star last season, narrowly missing out on promotion to League One.
FGR’s support of its conservation partner Sea Shepherd also features in the new design, with the marine charity’s iconic skull and crossbones on the back of every shirt. For the first time, Oatly (the club’s plant-based milk partner) have sponsored the shorts with their logo appearing on the back of every pair.
The club will also launch an all-new third uniform in partnership with Sea Shepherd next month in tribute to the organisation’s work, and as part of a major fundraising initiative instigated by the club.
Dale Vince, Chairman, Forest Green Rovers, states, “We’ve taken inspiration from nature with our new kit, from the zebra stripes to the sustainable materials. I was pretty shocked when I found out that modern sportswear is actually made from plastic, that feels wrong to me, not just from the sustainability point of view, but for performance too.”
“Together with PlayerLayer, we’re making strides towards a new approach for football kit–this year’s 50% Bamboo is a stake in the ground and we plan to move beyond that. The aim is 100% sustainable, high-performance material.”
Roderick Bradley, Founder, PlayerLayer, commented, “We are privileged to work with such a forward thinking, creative and rebellious football club. We are developing some completely natural fabrics which will change the sports clothing industry forever.”
Fans can pre-order the new FGR home and away uniforms online here with online deliveries starting Monday 15th July. Shipping to the US and Canada is available.
ABOUT FOREST GREEN ROVERS
Founded in 1889 and based at The New Lawn stadium in Gloucestershire. FGR has been described by FIFA as “the world’s greenest football club.”
Currently in League Two, FGR brings together football and environmental consciousness in a way no other football, or sports club in the world is doing – from its fully organic pitch and vegan matchday menu to its stadium solar panels and electric vehicle charge points.
FGR is the first vegan football club in the world, and the only one on the planet to be certified carbon neutral by the United Nations. In the 19/20 season, FGR will play in a kit made 50% from bamboo therefore reducing the reliance on plastics in sportswear. FGR’s chairman and owner, Dale Vince is also a Climate Champion for the UN.
You can find out more about FGR and its green initiatives on the club website.
The UK’s biggest Mexican restaurant Chiquito has launched a new vegan menu and Oumph! is now featured in two new plant-based dishes.
Keep reading for details on the two Oumph! dishes as well as an overview of the entire vegan menu.
• Vegarrito – Salty & Smoky Oumph! Black beans, jalapeño slaw, rice and greens wrapped in a spinach tortilla. Served with tortilla chips and a side of Oatly creamy oat fraiche.
• Vegan Fiesta Fajita – All of the favourite flavours from their classic fajitas filled with Salty & Smoky Oumph! Served with Violife vegan cheddar style cheese and Oatly creme fraiche, Pico de Gallo salsa, guacamole and unlimited tortillas.
“We are particularly proud of our new vegan menu”, says Chiquito Managing Director Angelo Gabrilatsou. “Having guest choice at the heart and understanding growing trends, this menu allows Chiquito to be more accessible to guests that seek vegan options.”
Angelo Gabrilatsou continues:
“We are very fortunate that Mexican food lends itself very well to vegan and our new additions bring amazing tastes and textures that will appeal not only to vegans but to all our guests. We are incredibly excited about this menu and firmly believe it puts us at the forefront of vegan dining in the UK.”
The new vegan menu will be available now at all Chiquito sites. The company currently has almost 70 locations around the UK.
Click here to search for your nearest location on their website or keep reading for an overview of the new vegan menu.
The new vegan menu at Chiquito features the following items:
Mr Tofu has had a store front in central Mexico City for a few years, but they have just gone and opened a brand new updated version in the trendy Condesa area.
Mr Tofu is not just a chain of vegan stores around Mexico. The company also acts as the leading importer of vegan goods into the country.
The new location at Quintana Roo 145 in Condesa is beautiful.
Freezers are packed solid with meat and dairy alternatives including market leaders Gardein, Follow Your Heart, Tofurky, Daiya, Field Roast, and Beyond Meat.
Check out these gorgeous photos showing the inside and outside of the new Mr Tofu location.
The store isn’t a cafe but they do have vegan hot dogs on heating rollers and they will cook you up a Beyond Burger on a grill which you can then garnish yourself with ketchup, mustard, onions, and jalapeños.
They also have a soft serve ice cream machine!
Mr Tofu already has multiple location spread around Mexico with many more to follow in the next few years.
You can see the exact location of the new Condesa location thanks to Google Maps and be sure to follow Mr Tofu Condesa on Instagram.
The Fry Family Food Co. has just launched two amazing-looking vegan pizzas featuring their legendary chicken-style strips.
Both the Smoky BBQ Woodfired Pizza and the Mediterranean Woodfired Pizza feature the chicken-style strips and are currently being sold by Coles supermarkets all around Australia.
The famous meat-free brand has suggested on social media that the pizzas will start to make their way into other stores soon and as they are made in Italy, it would make sense to find them in the UK before too long.
Sheffield. Have you been into your superstar vegan grocery store lately?
Well, I’ve got a very solid reason why you need to get in there ASAP.
The Incredible Nutshell located in Heeley has long been one of the best vegan shops on the planet. They stock a HUGE range of plant-based treats, chilled products, and goodies for your pantry.
And now they are selling the new and improved Jeavons toffees and chocolates.
Check out these images below.
Jeavons have spent several years raising funds for new machinery and trialling how to use it in order to produce all their treats on a bigger scale as opposed to their previous handmade techniques. This upgrade was crucial due to the immense demand for their tasty treats.
The Incredible Nutshell has always been a champion of independent vegan food producers, so it should be no surprise that the Sheffield store is proudly selling these toffees and chocolates.
Get into The Incredible Nutshell to be one of the first in the UK to try the new and improved treats by Jeavons. Click here to see all the details including address of the shop.
You can also follow The Incredible Nutshell on Instagram.
If you are not in Sheffield but want these treats, order online from the Jeavonswebsite. You can also follow the brand on Instagram.
You are going to need to be VERY fast to get your hands on some of these delights.
ConVEctionery is an online UK store specialising in vegan treats, chocolates, and bakes.
For a super limited time (as in this weekend ending Sunday July 7, 2019) you can order two AMAZING items for delivery to your home or office.
Check this out.
If you are able to view the images above, you will have witnessed vegan white chocolate Kit Kats and white chocolate Wagon Wheels.
Oh, yes!
Of course CoVEctionery has plenty of other treats to order as well, but these white chocolate Kit Kats and Wagon Wheels are only available this weekend.
You gotta get over to their online shop as fast as you can because I predict they will not last long.
Don’t you just hate when you go to a cinema and there is ABSOLUTELY NOTHING for vegans to consume from the concessions stand?
Fellow cinema goers are struggling under trays of savoury snacks and ice creams and popcorn and soda.
The rejection I’ve experienced at cinemas has been decades long so imagine my overwhelming delight at visiting a cinema in Los Angeles and being faced with too much vegan choice.
Gil and I were invited to try out all the vegan goodies at Laemmle theatres.
Laemmle is an independently owned cinema chain specialising in arthouse films. We hopped along to their North Hollywood location for a screening of the latest Jim Jarmusch release The Dead Don’t Die and picked up all of these amazing treats.
Pretty impressive, right?
As you can see, Laemmle theatres are selling Fry’s products and I promise you I never thought I’d live to see the day when a cinema chain had vegan hot food options of such a high standard.
I gobbled up the hot dog, the sausage roll, and the gluten free nuggets.
When you are in Los Angeles, make time to take in a film screening at one of the nine Laemmle locations AND eat well while you do it.
You can follow Laemmle on Instagram. You can also follow Fry’s on Instagram.
