Stuff I Eat 114 N Market St (at S La Brea) Inglewood, California 90301 310-671-0115 Owner: Babette Is this your first restaurant? Yes What has been your greatest professional success and your biggest setback? Greatest success was getting the doors open after 4 years of remodeling! Biggest setback? hmm not being able to hire more employees. (photo by My Vegan Girlfriend) What is your favorite dish on the menu? It was the…
Restaurateur Interview Series: Sue from Counter Culture
Counter Culture 2337 East Cesar Chavez Austin Texas 78702 512-524-1540 Owner: Sue Davis Is this your first restaurant? Yes, but I had a food trailer first for almost 3 years. What made you decide to open a vegan restaurant? To offer vegan food that you couldn’t find anywhere else close by and to promote veganism in a positive way. It’s my form of animal and environmental activism. We have something…
Restaurateur Interview Series: Heather & Alli from Sweet Freedom Bakery
Sweet Freedom Bakery 1424 South St Philadelphia Pennsylvania 19146 215-545-1899 Co-owners: Heather Esposito and Allison Lubert Is this your first restaurant? Yes What made you decide to open a vegetarian/vegan restaurant? Suffering from food allergies & sensitivities ourselves, we wanted to create a bakery that is free of the major allergens (gluten-dairy-eggs-soy-corn) so that people can be “free” to enjoy baked goods that taste the same, if not better than traditional…
Restaurateur Interview Series: Joy from Candle Cafe
Candle Cafe 1307 3rd Ave (at 75th St, Upper East Side) New York City, New York 10021 212-472-0970 Candle 79 154 East 79th St (at Lexington, Upper East Side) New York City, New York 10021 212-537-7179 Owner: Joy Pierson Is this your first restaurant? Candle Cafe is our first restaurant and Candle 79 is our second. What made you decide to open a vegetarian/vegan restaurant? My passion to heal people with food. I was…