A vegan and vegetarian food guide

Plant-based consuming is rising in reputation across the nation and in Tallahassee. Here’s a look into a number of the many choices out there for vegans and vegetarians in Florida’s capital. 

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Strictly vegan and vegetarian

The Bark 

House owners Susie Petty and David Inexperienced opened this funky, colourful mural-covered vegetarian restaurant, bar and occasion venue 4 years in the past within the All Saints neighborhood. 

“We mixed forces to create this house,” Petty mentioned, “which has a full liquor bar, the place we do music and reveals, however then we even have a spine of actually good vegan meals, housemade bread and every thing’s comprised of scratch.”

The menu consists of sizzling sandwiches served on contemporary bread, veggie burgers, salads, sides and construct your individual mac and cheese bowls. All choices are vegan except eggs or cheese are added by the shopper. Inventive day by day specials are additionally supplied together with brunch on Saturdays and Sundays. Craft cocktails and beer are additionally on the menu.

The Bark hosts occasions recurrently, starting from film screenings, karaoke, music performances, comedy reveals, drag reveals, and extra. 

“I am amazed and appreciative,” Petty mentioned of the final 4 years on the restaurant. “I actually like how the entire folks that are available right here simply appear to essentially, actually get pleasure from it. And likewise contribute again into the texture of the house. It actually feels very pleasant in right here and like individuals know one another.”

Hemplade Vegan Cafe 

Inside this Frenchtown eatery, a vegan well being meals restaurant meets a juice bar meets a dispensary.

“It is the primary on the east coast to have the ability to have a vegan and the hashish expertise,” proprietor Yudah Weh claims.

The extensive menu gives a wide range of all-vegan dishes like fried chick’n and kush waffles, a “kushroom” burger, pizzas, and mac and cheese. Gadgets will be infused with hemp for an additional cost. 

Prospects with a medical marijuana card obtain 10% off their order. 

Weh and his spouse Narsha Cumming began their enterprise in South Florida in 2012 with their hemp tea, aptly named Hemplade Tea, earlier than they moved to Tallahassee and opened their restaurant in 2019. 

The tea is served on the café in a number of taste choices together with different natural teas, juices and smoothies all boasting completely different well being advantages. 

Prospects may buy desserts, pre-rolled joints of CBD, CBG and Delta 8 together with different types of the hemp merchandise like gummies and buds. 

“You may get a burger and a joint,” Weh mentioned.

Candy Pea Cafe

Whereas Candy Pea administration declined to be interviewed for this text, the restaurant’s website describes it as a “informal counter service farm to desk model cafe.”

Situated on West Tharpe Road, the eatery gives day by day specials in addition to a beloved common menu with an assortment of sandwiches and different choices. 

Very veg-friendly 

Iron Daisy

This Gaines Street spot providing “Mexican fare with Florida aptitude,” dishes up a number of veg choices in several classes together with vegan burritos, tacos, enchiladas and even chimichangas all served with Past meat. 

I Coronary heart Mac and Cheese

For those who’ve obtained a hankering for some traditional mac and cheese, head on all the way down to CollegeTown and stroll on into I Heart Mac and Cheese.