Foo Dog Curry Traders
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.
Vegan Jax: Riverside
Historic homes, the Cummer gardens, and the Riverside Arts Market under the Fuller Warren Bridge. Dense with independent kitchens and the city's oldest bar rooms.
Grassroots Natural Market
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.
Homespun Kitchen
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.
Pattaya Thai
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.
Sweet Theory Baking Co.
Entirely vegan since 2012, on King Street in Riverside. The distinction that matters here is fully vegan kitchen rather than vegan option, and this is the former.