{"id":25418,"date":"2025-09-12T10:00:15","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T14:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/?p=25418"},"modified":"2025-08-27T14:30:45","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T18:30:45","slug":"vegan-restaurants-added-to-the-vegetarian-resource-groups-guide-to-veggie-restaurants-in-the-usa-and-canada-217","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/2025\/09\/12\/vegan-restaurants-added-to-the-vegetarian-resource-groups-guide-to-veggie-restaurants-in-the-usa-and-canada-217\/","title":{"rendered":"Vegan Restaurants Added to The Vegetarian Resource Group\u2019s Guide to Veggie Restaurants in the USA and Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_25419\" style=\"width: 298px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/photo-from-La-Combi-gotes.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-25419\" class=\"size-full wp-image-25419\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/photo-from-La-Combi-gotes.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"288\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-25419\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">photo from La Combi-gotes<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The Vegetarian Resource Group maintains an online Guide to Vegan\/Vegetarian Restaurants in the USA and Canada. Here are some recent vegan restaurant additions. The entire guide can be found here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vrg.org\/restaurant\">www.vrg.org\/restaurant<\/a><\/p>\n<p>To support the updating of this online restaurant guide, please donate at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vrg.org\/donate\">www.vrg.org\/donate<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here are some new additions to VRG\u2019s guide:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Aliado Bar &amp; Aperitivo, 68 Calle de San Francisco, San Juan, PR 00901<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Aliado\u2019s small plates<strong> (<\/strong>Aperitivos) are intended for sharing and include Sopa de Frijoles Negros with organic black turtle beans, local pumpkin, breadfruit, ginger, and herbs; Olivia featuring Italian Castelvetrano olives, emulsified cashew cream, EVOO, and dehydrated seed crackers; Pickled Beet and Ricotta Toast showcasing Chioggia and Detroit red beets from Aibonito, pepita ricotta, tomato marmalade, microgreens, and sourdough from Panoteca San Miguel. In addition, they offer a daily special which serves as a main course such as Pasta Fresca fresh made Tagliatelle, with cultured creamy pesto, local mushrooms, zucchini, broccoli, and dried parmesan. Their vegan cheese is tree nut based. They thank you for your patience, noting their dishes are made from scratch.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Aiso, 4068 18th St., San Francisco, CA 94114<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Aiso offers diverse, tropically-inspired Tapas such as Oyster Mushroom Skewers with Tamari and coriander, Yuca Sticks with Passionfruit Mustard, Heart of Palm Fritto with Watercress Aioli, Garlic butter Udon with Macadamia Nut, Beet Tartare with Wasabi Cr\u00e8me Fraiche, cucumber, and sesame, Mango Gazpacho with fresh brunoise, spicy Roasted Cauliflower with Sikil pak (a Mayan pumpkin seed based dip), and sour orange onion to name a few dishes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>El Veganito, 5500 Grossmont Center Dr., La Mesa, CA 91942<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>El Veganito strives to craft creative dishes with locally sourced ingredients and to offer a \u201c\u2026celebration of food, health, and sustainability\u2026\u201d To name a few, Tacos include Carnitas showcasing Jackfruit, or Adobada with soy protein\u2014both with cilantro, onion, and lime; Phish featuring Baja style fishless fillets, cabbage, tomato, cilantro, chipotle cream, and avocado; as well as Tacos de Papa offering crunchy rolled potato taquitos, topped with onion, tomato, lettuce, cilantro, cheese, avocado, and sour cream. Burritos\/Bowls offer many similar fillings, some with rice and beans and some where they may be added. Poncho\u2019s Burrito includes freshly marinated, grilled vegetables, rice beans, Pico de Gallo, and avocado. Machaca Burrito features scrambled Jackfruit, tofu, bell pepper, onions, and tomato. El Reuben showcases thin sliced Tempeh, 1000 Island, cheese, and sauerkraut on grilled rye bread. Sopes serves up Veracruz style corn Masa, black beans, onion, sour cream, cilantro, avocado, and their Cashew Cotija cheese. They offer lots of sides too.<\/p>\n<p><strong>La Combi-gotes, 111 N. Bishop Ave., Dallas, TX 75208<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The vegan food trailer serves up vegan Mexican dishes such as Beefless Fajitas, Chickenless Flautas, Veggie Burritos, quesadillas, Mexican bowl, and burgers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Missionary Chocolates, 2712 NE Glisan St., Portland, OR 97232<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Missionary Chocolates are crafted in small batches by a naturopathic physician and are dairy-free and gluten-free. Besides their first truffle flavor, 8 time award winning Meyer Lemon Explosion, they offer a myriad of Truffle choices like Sweet Raspberry, Simply Espresso, Local Lavender, Smoked Cherrywood Salted Caramel, inot Noir Salted Caramel, Whiskey, Peach Habanero, and more! A few are seasonal. They\u2019re even open to custom crafting flavors. Chocolate Bars include GF Pretzel Bits Bar and more, as well as Sugar-Free Ginger, Peppermint, Vanilla or Cacao Nibs Chocolate Bars sweetened with monk fruit and stevia. Other confections are Chocolate Covered Snacks like Cherries, Marshmallow Barrels, Figs, Cinnamon Bears, Coffee Beans, and so many more\u2014some organic, all chocolate covered! Talk about community support\u2014on their website you can see the generous list of charities to which Missionary Chocolates has donated chocolate. And yes, they offer samples to visitors!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mr. Charlie\u2019s, 262 26<sup>th<\/sup> St., Santa Monica, CA 90402<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Here, you will find timeless American classics with a plant-based twist, such as \u201cfrowny meals,\u201d \u201cnot a double double,\u201d \u201cnot a cheeseburger,\u201d not a chicken sandwich,\u201d \u201cnot chicken nuggets,\u201d and everyone\u2019s favorite, french fries!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sensible Edibles, 30-30 47th Ave., Long Island City, NY 11101<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sensible Edibles is a gluten-free and vegan bakery and caf\u00e9 focused on bringing wholesome, organic, and sustainable baked goods. They also have online ordering available across the US, and provide custom gluten-free and vegan cakes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Vegetarian Resource Group maintains an online Guide to Vegan\/Vegetarian Restaurants in the USA and Canada. Here are some recent vegan restaurant additions. The entire guide can be found here: www.vrg.org\/restaurant To support the updating of this online restaurant guide, please donate at: www.vrg.org\/donate Here are some new additions to VRG\u2019s guide: Aliado Bar &amp; [&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-25418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25418","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=25418"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25420,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25418\/revisions\/25420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}