South Park's black-metal-themed vegan cocktail bar — gothic Art Nouveau interior, an all-vegan chef-driven menu that surprises meat eaters, and a cocktail program that puts Kindred in SD's national co...
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Donna Jean
Vegan / Plant-Based / Cocktails · Bankers Hill
Bankers Hill's plant-based chef-driven dining room — a fully-vegan menu that surprises omnivores, a craft cocktail program that holds up beside the city's best bars, and one of the most-specific new d...
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The Plot
Plant-Based / Vegan · Oceanside
Jessica and Davin Waite's Oceanside plant-based flagship — a zero-waste operating model, a kitchen that treats vegetables with the same rigor Davin brings to sushi next door, and a menu even committed...
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Surati Farsan Mart
Indian / Gujarati / Sweets · Kearny Mesa
Convoy Street's Gujarati farsan and sweets counter, half retail and half eat-in. Cases of barfi, ladoos, and savory Indian snacks up front; a cafeteria-format dining room in the back for chaat and ful...
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Plumeria Vegetarian Restaurant
Thai / Vegetarian / Vegan · University Heights
University Heights' all-vegetarian Thai kitchen — a vegan pad thai, mock-duck applications across the menu, and a Park Blvd dining room that SD's plant-based Thai eaters have treated as the default fo...
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Ki's Restaurant
American / Californian / Vegetarian · Cardiff-by-the-Sea
Cardiff-by-the-Sea's surf-culture café on the 101 — ocean-view patio across from the break, a vegetarian-friendly breakfast menu, and the kind of Cardiff morning constant that made Ki's part of the No...
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Ranchos Cocina
Mexican / Vegetarian · North Park
North Park's Ranchos Cocina — a vegetarian/vegan-leaning Mexican kitchen on 30th Street, a seitan chimichanga signature, and a neighborhood dining room that has fed SD's plant-based Mexican-food eater...
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Lotus Cafe & Juice Bar
American / Vegetarian / Healthy · Encinitas
Encinitas's Lotus Cafe on the 101 — a vegetarian-focused menu with a juice bar, a sidewalk patio that's been part of the Encinitas surf-culture-plus-wellness routine for two decades. A North County he...
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True Food Kitchen — Fashion Valley
Californian / Healthy · Mission Valley
Dr. Andrew Weil and Fox Restaurant Concepts' health-first concept at Fashion Valley — anti-inflammatory seasonal menu, bowls, and one of the defining mall-restaurant rooms that pulls a wellness crowd ...
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Flower Child — Fashion Valley
Californian / Healthy / Vegetarian · Mission Valley
Fox Restaurant Concepts' Flower Child at Fashion Valley — a wellness-focused fast-casual format from the North Italia / True Food Kitchen parent, bowls and wraps with a from-scratch kitchen, and a mal...