I find that a lot of Vegetarian/Vegan restaurants fall into two categories. One is the restaurants that serve mainly vegetable dishes. These may include rich soups, vegetable sandwiches, whole grain breads, pastas and fresh salads. The other is one that models itself after meat restaurants but replaces all the meat with vegetarian/vegan alternatives. Sometimes I dig the first style. Sometimes the second. I really have [...]
Are you really here looking for vegan calf testicles? If so, sorry, I can’t help you. There will be no vegan bull balls in this post. So why the title? Well, it is an entry about the best vegan food I enjoyed in the Rocky Mountains presented in little snip(pets) thus the oyster part. I know that since I have returned from Denver I have [...]
Before last night when someone mentioned the word Hollywood only three things came to mind. These were, in no particular order, Elizabeth Short, Glam metal and the Walk of Fame. Oh, and the Dwarves. It should shock no one that my desire to visit this district in Los Angeles was tepid at best. But everything about this ho-hum place changed with one simple message in [...]
Cafe Fresco & Bakery is located at the corner of an unassuming strip mall on State Road 56 near Wesley Chapel. I drove by it hundreds of times without even giving it a second glance. One of my co-workers lives near it so after a meeting this summer we stopped by for lunch. Since then I have been there three more times. The place is [...]
Last weekend my mother-in-law and sister-in-law came to town for a visit…well sort of. They actually came to St. Pete Beach which is about 45 minutes away as long as traffic is moving. If someone has driven off the bridge or decided to erect a new roadside marker then the trip is much longer. This meant that J-Fur did a lot of back and forth [...]
On one of my last weekdays off of the summer I set out to conquer a twenty mile bike ride. This ride was unlike the others I took this summer because it would be along main roads and through trailer parks rather than winding in the woods. I had gone about seven miles when I blew out my tire. I flipped the bike and tried [...]
Capdevila at La Teresita (commonly referred to as just La Teresita) is a Cuban restaurant in West Tampa that is probably no place for a vegetarian to wind up. The list of foods that are vegetarian friendly could be ticked off using the fingers of just one hand. Let’s see, there was fried yucca, arroz amarillo, papas fritas, platanos fritos and tostones. There are a [...]
As the name implies, Ella’s Americana Folk Art Cafe, is more than just a restaurant. It is also an art gallery, concert venue, hipster hangout and drinker’s paradise. From the moment you squeeze into the way too tight parking spaces and see the metal horse lying upside down in the grass surrounded by half buried bowling balls acting as a black rubber road that ends [...]
A few weeks back I had a day off of school so I decided to try and see how the “other half” lives. By that I mean the people who don’t have to leave their warm soup because one of their kids stole an ice cream sandwich or a parent needs to have a conference. The ones who don’t have to have a working lunch [...]
