Award-winning writer and blogger Laura Beck's latest installment of vegan dishes worth creaming your culinary pants over is back! And we couldn't be happier. On this episode of Three Vegan Dishes, Beck talks about the all-vegetable menu at Atelier Crenn, the dessert selection at Source, and--get this!--the jars of vegan nacho cheese available at Rainbow Grocery. more ›

Known for controversial and shocking methods of getting their word across, PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) plans on erecting a billboard in Sacramento featuring the image of a person about to put a pork chop into the microwave next to a picture of a loving mother pig and reads, "Everybody's Somebody's Baby. Go Vegan." WIth an obvious nod to a particularly gruesome story, PETA came up with the tasteless plan after a Sacramento woman was arrested this week for allegedly microwaving her 6-week-old baby to death. more ›

This fairly new coffeeshop in the tenderloin opened to a bit of controversy but is now off on smooth sailing toward deliciousness. I don't know, it's Friday Thursday, cut me some slack. The Soyrizo Breakfast Sandwich is filled with tofu scramble, melty vegan cheese, and delicious spicy soyrizo on an english muffin and all that's fine and dandy but then they throw that mother in a panini grill and what comes out is a beast. That panini grill must be a cousin of that toaster oven who can talk because there is certainly magic afoot. more ›

Housemade bread or pizza dough at Source, 11 Division (at King), SF First, let us get this party started by saying that we realize almost everything about recently-opened Source might be or definitely is crazy. Let us also say, we're starting to like it. Normally, when restaurant websites throw around terms like "ancient principals of feng shui" and "ionized air", our brains explode, but at Source, we can dig it. Plus, their housemade buns, pita, and pizza dough are pretty much unbelievable.... more ›

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The Buddha Boy at Sushirito (59 New Montgomery), SF What's up party vegans! And veg curious! This week's write-up might be even more insane than usual but it's only because I am doing this cleanse and I might be dying from lack of fried food. Okay, let's go! Have you been to Sushirito yet? The whole town is crapping its pants for these "sushi burritos," which are really nothing more than giant, mediocre nori rolls. That said, you should try one! more ›

The No Cheese Pizza at Atlas Cafe (3049 20th Street) What could sound more unappetizing than a No Cheese Pizza? Perhaps a Shit Sundae? Or a, Colostomy-Bag Omelet? Anyway, it sounds terrible but it’s extremely tasty. Delicious doughy dough topped with sweet yams, blackened tofu, baked beets, and portobello mushrooms; it’s a winner. It’s so good that we’ll even endure Blue Grass night* to get it. If you’re unemployed and depressed because nobody loves you, head here to get the No Cheese Pizza and read one of their free fashion magazines so you can also be depressed about your disgusting fat body. We’re really selling it, right? more ›

Weekend Ruiners from A Fire Inside Weekend Ruiners are cinnamon rolls that are roughly the size of an obese baby. Think of a miniaturized Bruce Vilanch (SO CUTE) and you're starting to get the idea. These puppies are unsane, eat one and you'll be full for a week. You'll also have an intense case of the sugar shakes but that shit is worth it. Unfortunately, they're only available via special order so get to ordering or else, stop by the SF Vegan Bakesale this weekend to get in on the deliciousness AND help charity at the same time. You're such a good person. more ›

Mock Meatball Hero at The Slice of Life in Sebastapol Sebastapol is northern California small town picturesque. That means: country with a side of hippie. If you're in the mood to shop for beads, consult a psychic, and shop for plus size ponchos, Sebastapol is your jam. When you're done with all that, head to Slice of Life and get yourself the Mock Meatball Hero. You'll be thoroughly seduced by the sexy Italian party in your mouth. Served up with a side of Aromatic Airs (Hippie to English translation: baked french fries) and an "all natural" soda and you'll contemplate giving up city life and opening up your own punny-named bead shop in this cute town. You and Sebastapol bead-long together! more ›

Vegansaurus has word that, starting this Saturday, you will be able to get more of that delicious (and, quite possibly, mind-controlling) vegan/vegetarian fare that pleases both carnivores and leaf munchers alike. more ›

Pecan Bourbon Sorbet at Scream Sorbet Scream Sorbet recently opened a store front in Oakland’s Temescal district and we’re very happy campers as they are complete magicians with dairy-free treats. The Pecan Bourbon is made with just pecans, sugar, Bulleit bourbon, and some sea salt, so the complexity they achieve is kinda insane. It tastes like the boozy holidays, a nice alternative to getting shit-faced at a holiday dinner and setting your entire family on fire. Happy Holidays! more ›

Biscuits and Gravy at Souley Vegan We're not religious people, but we've been praying on this day for years. There was not one place to get vegan biscuits and gravy in the entire bay area until Souley Vegan started serving Sunday brunch two weekends ago. God bless their deep-fried hearts. Not only do they have life changing biscuits and gravy, but they're also serving vegan breakfast sandwiches, scrambles, pancakes, sausages, and free squeezed orange juice. The only thing this brunch is missing is coffee. Seriously, if we don't have our morning coffee: hide your kids, hide your wife, hide your husband, hide your valuables, hide your Sugar Free Red Bull, hide your social security number, and finally, lock us in a cage and check back in three days. Please to note: brunch is only available on Sundays from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. more ›

OH HELL YES. Silk Nog is gracing the fridges of your favorite market/supermarket/corner bodega and you've got to get it while the getting is good. It's all the deliciousness of nog, without any of the gross cholesterol and raw eggs. Yes! For the perfect beverage, mix in copious amounts of rum and pour it all into your Sigg water bottle. This makes everything from work to unemployment to running a holiday10K that much more fun. 'Tis the season, bitches! more ›

Chocolate Mint Cookie at Arizmendi (1268 Valencia, S.F.) We know all you want to read about today is The Giants and how much we all want to stick it in cheer for Buster Posey so let's make this quick. The Mint Chocolate cookie from the brand-new Arizmendi Bakery on Valencia is basically a squished brownie with chunks of chocolate melting out of it. Like, imagine if someone took an entire bar of high-quality dark chocolate and placed it on top of a cookie before they baked it. Can we get a what-what for adult onset diabetes!? It’s the size of your face and worth every penny of its $2 price tag because it has the calories of 12 regular meals. Get it! more ›

It's VEGAN FILIPINO FOOD. Veganism and Filipino food go together like Sonny and Cher and Cher divorced Sonny and then he skied into a tree (RIP), you feel us? Which is to say, the last time we had Filipino food, the green beans were made of pork. Well, hold the phone because we've got some news for you. A new Filipino restaurant, No Worries, just opened in Oakland. They've veganized so many classics that we started eating when the doors opened last Friday and haven't stopped yet. Our favorite so far? The Kare-Kare, which is vegan meat, eggplant, string beans, and cabbage in this delicious savory peanut sauce. Get a huge bowl of it for 9 bucks and an extra buck for rice. Cheap 'n' tasty, just like how we like everything except some things. Read on... more ›

by Laura Beck Fried Idly at Udupi Palace Fried Idly are little pucks of lentil and rice mashed up and then deep fried and covered in chopped veggies and spicy tastiness. They taste like the magical moment when a caterpillar becomes a butterfly. God, do we sound like we just got back from Burning Man, or what? We swear, we didn't, this stuff just brings out the hippie in us.. more ›

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If a garden burger mated with a fraggle, it would be The Plant Burger. It's insanely delicious and completely insane. Made in house from lentils, mushrooms, beets, cashews, and bulgur wheat, The Plant Burger is just so crazy it works! Served with a few roasted potatoes and your choice of topping... more ›

Three vegan dishes you need to know about right this very second. more ›

Please welcome SFist's newest contributor, Laura Beck. Founder of the award-winning Vegansaurus -- a great read for both vegans and rabid carnivores -- Beck is here to add tasty variations to the food voice on SFist. That, and she's an amazing writer. Oh, and if you'd like Beck to check out your vegetarian/vegan creations, Bay Area chefs, do let us know. more ›

Humboldt County hippie and author, Lierre Keith, was spattered with delicious cream pies Saturday afternoon as she was speaking at the 15th Annual Bay Area Anarchist Book Fair down at the Cow Palace (or someplace). Apparently, the recovering vegan and author of The Vegetarian Myth, a book that supposedly suggests that all agriculture should be eliminated and every human on this planet should take up hunting and gathering (because, you know, that's practical), was giving a talk and had only managed to utter a denouncement of factory farmed meat before being attacked by black clad, pro-life hippies screaming, "Go Vegan." The attack reportedly prompted some cheers from the audience as well as a flurry of anti-war/no war for oil/pro-DC statehood/liberate Palestine/stop animal testing leafleting. Apparently, as if smacking someone in the face with a pie weren't bad enough, the cream filling was laced with chili peppers to prompt maximum discomfort. Mean! more ›

Wow. OK. At an appearance onstage at South San Francisco Day in Orange Memorial Park on Saturday, a PETA member got up on stage and smacked a guy dressed as Ronald McDonald in the face with a vegan custard pie. more ›

Speaking of baked goods, the Wordwide Vegan Bake Sale dishes out sweet love all weekend long. Can vegan cookies, cakes, brownies, whoopie pies and other assorted baked treats be just as tasty butter or milk? Yes. (See: olive oil cakes) Without eggs? Of course. Take, for example, those donuts are right; they're hyperdelcious. Made by Pepple’s Donuts, they taste like they were created by the Virgin Mary and the Baby Jesus, using only sunshine, cocaine divine intervention and sprinkles of sugar to concoct vegan donut perfection. Be sure to sample them, as well as a slew of other baked goods, on Saturday (from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at 3506 - 16th Street at Sanchez, [in front of Ike's Place]) and on Sunday (from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on the 800 block of Capp Street [near 24th Street. 1/2 block from BART]). more ›

Oh look! Another ad from Supreme Master TV, one that will, hopefully, bring you nobility and spirituality. And this one is in massive billboard form, found above Harrison between Fourth and Third streets. more ›