A Mexican kitchen and bar at Jacksonville Beach with its own vegan menu. Enchiladas, quesadillas, jackfruit birria, cauliflower tacos, and a full vegan entree give a mixed table more than one safe fallback.
Folio Weekly described a small strip-mall spot at the Gate Parkway exit, with an Ikea across the street, when it reviewed the place in 2023 under the earlier owners. Its own site says it has been under new ownership since August 2024, and it offers vegan, vegetarian and gluten-free starters.
A Jacksonville Beach Thai restaurant that says it has served Thai food since 2010 and was once called Buddha's Belly. Its own About page says the dishes were made to share, and the menu has khao soi, crispy honey duck and vegan wings.
A Riverside curry counter where the dishes begin vegan and the protein is the add-on. That reverses the usual mixed-table problem: plant-based diners get the base menu, while everyone else decides what to add.
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Fully vegan kitchens and the places that treat a vegan order like a real order, plus what each room is actually like once you sit down.
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A Mexican kitchen and bar at Jacksonville Beach with its own vegan menu. Enchiladas, quesadillas, jackfruit birria, cauliflower tacos, and a full vegan entree give a mixed table more than one safe fallback.
Folio Weekly described a small strip-mall spot at the Gate Parkway exit, with an Ikea across the street, when it reviewed the place in 2023 under the earlier owners. Its own site says it has been under new ownership since August 2024, and it offers vegan, vegetarian and gluten-free starters.
A Jacksonville Beach Thai restaurant that says it has served Thai food since 2010 and was once called Buddha's Belly. Its own About page says the dishes were made to share, and the menu has khao soi, crispy honey duck and vegan wings.
A Riverside curry counter where the dishes begin vegan and the protein is the add-on. That reverses the usual mixed-table problem: plant-based diners get the base menu, while everyone else decides what to add.
A natural foods market in Five Points with vegan options at the deli counter and fresh juice. A grocery with a vegan lunch rather than a vegan restaurant, and listed as exactly that.
Scratch cooking on Oak Street with vegan and gluten-free built into the menu rather than bolted onto it. A vegan order here is a normal order, which is a different thing from a substitution.
A full brunch room near the beach with a real vegan section, not one modified plate. Vegan pancakes, French toast, tofu scrambles, breakfast tacos, sausage, chorizo, and JUST Egg make this the useful answer when breakfast is the point of the trip.
The Jacksonville Beach location of a local Indian and Nepali group whose own menu currently labels 19 vegan dishes. It is useful for a mixed group because vegan choices sit beside the full curry, momo, tandoori, and bar menu.
A Westside Thai restaurant just south of I-295 on Argyle Forest Boulevard. Its own home page names pad thai, roast duck, massaman curry and papaya salad.
The owner's parents opened a small Asian food store with a cafe on University Boulevard in 1989, and by 1990 it had grown into a full restaurant called Pattaya Thai, the restaurant's own story says. Its menu says every curry is made with 100 percent coconut milk.
An Avondale sushi room with a separate vegan menu and far more than cucumber rolls. This is the mixed-table choice when one person wants traditional sushi and another wants rolls, appetizers, and entrees built as vegan food from the start.
A Thai restaurant on Faye Road on the Northside. Its own site lists panang curry, Bangkok pad thai, pineapple fried rice and crispy duck.
A Beach Boulevard Thai restaurant whose own site says it has been family owned since 2018. The menu lists pad thai, drunken noodle, panang curry and pineapple fried rice.
Underbelly did not disappear. Longtime local music bookers Mike Ciero and Steve Blaisdell took over, renamed the Bay Street room The Albatross, and gave its menu the names of Jacksonville music venues that actually did close.
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