{"id":19547,"date":"2022-07-05T10:00:49","date_gmt":"2022-07-05T14:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/?p=19547"},"modified":"2022-06-09T11:22:45","modified_gmt":"2022-06-09T15:22:45","slug":"ben-esthers-vegan-jewish-deli","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/2022\/07\/05\/ben-esthers-vegan-jewish-deli\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben &#038; Esther\u2019s Vegan Jewish Deli"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/veggie-bagel-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-19550\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/veggie-bagel-1-300x272.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"272\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/veggie-bagel-1-300x272.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/veggie-bagel-1.jpg 538w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>By Reed Mangels, PhD, RD<\/p>\n<p>I walked into Ben &amp; Esther\u2019s Vegan Jewish Deli in Portland, Oregon and thought, \u201cWait, is this place really vegan?\u201d The glass-fronted deli case had labels for whitefish salad, lox, noodle kugel, and egg salad. Had I misread the sign out front? No, the sign was correct. Ben &amp; Esther\u2019s is 100% vegan despite serving deli classics like Reuben sandwiches and matzo ball soup. They also have desserts including black and white cookies, hamentashen, and babka. Additionally, they sell challah and a variety of bagels. My veggie bagel sandwich was stuffed with avocado, lettuce, tomato, red onion, cucumbers, and vegan cream cheese. The \u201cbacon\u201d on my husband\u2019s BLT was smoky and crisp and even looked like bacon. My only regret is that I didn\u2019t get a few bagels for the road.<\/p>\n<p>You can find Ben &amp; Esther\u2019s in two locations in Portland (6912 NE Sandy Blvd. and 1800 NE Alberta St.) and one in San Diego (6663 El Cajon Blvd.) with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.capitolhillseattle.com\/2022\/06\/capitol-hill-is-getting-a-ben-and-esthers-vegan-jewish-deli\/\">promises of the next location being Seattle<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Visit their website at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benandesthers.com\/\">https:\/\/www.benandesthers.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>To find a list of veggie restaurants in the USA and Canada visit: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/restaurant\/index.php\">https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/restaurant\/index.php<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Reed Mangels, PhD, RD I walked into Ben &amp; Esther\u2019s Vegan Jewish Deli in Portland, Oregon and thought, \u201cWait, is this place really vegan?\u201d The glass-fronted deli case had labels for whitefish salad, lox, noodle kugel, and egg salad. Had I misread the sign out front? No, the sign was correct. Ben &amp; Esther\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19547"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19551,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19547\/revisions\/19551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}