Cool Beans

Local Tofu and Miso Offer Fresh Takes on Traditional Techniques

Three products we think are just soy good.

02/11/2026 By Naomi Tomky

Plant Rant

Seattle Deserves Better Vegan Restaurants

Flavor is not an animal product.

09/27/2024 By Naomi Tomky

Seattle Dining Guide

Seattle’s Best Vegan and Plant-Based Restaurants

Whatever term you use, these spots embrace flavor and avoid animal products entirely.

09/25/2024 By Naomi Tomky and Allecia Vermillion

Chef's Day Off

Recipe: Holly Smith's Deceptively Simple Salad

The chef and owner of Cafe Juanita keeps this recipe on standby for vegan diners—or parties full of omnivores.

11/14/2022 By Allecia Vermillion

Field Notes

Bloom Plants a Vegan-Friendly, No-Dairy, Gluten-Free Flag in Denny Triangle

The new lunch counter lets you assemble your own bento box.

05/09/2022 By Allecia Vermillion

Opening Dispatch

Ba Bar Opens Vegan Walk-Up, Ba Bar Green, in South Lake Union

The takeout window goes beyond Vietnamese fare with plant-based dishes from across Southeast Asia.

11/12/2021 By Allecia Vermillion

Plant-Based Plans

An Omnivore’s Guide to Eating Less Meat

Chefs and climate advocates dish on why you might and how you can reduce.

07/14/2020 By Stefan Milne Illustrations by Jordan Kay

Croissant Dispatch

Cafe Flora Plans a Spin-Off Bakehouse on Beacon Hill

The Flora Bakehouse will bring coffee and pastries aplenty to the area near Grover Cleveland High School.

11/05/2019 By Allecia Vermillion

Taste Trend

Plant-Based Proteins Are Getting Real and Seattle Is Here for It

From the Impossible Burger to a local startup’s “chicken” nuggets, vegan meat substitutes are serious business.

09/24/2019 By Jessica Voelker

Red, White, and Barbecued

What to Do in Seattle This July Fourth

A party cruise on Lake Union, a canine 4k in Bellevue, and a vegan barbecue to boot.

07/01/2019 By Courtney Cummings

CRITIC’S PICKS

What We're Eating Now May 2019

This month's favorites: smash burgers, loaded potatoes, and one impressive lamb Bolognese.

04/23/2019 By Seattle Met Staff

Food & Drink

Nosh Pit Weekly Planner July 4–10

The week in which: you should get yourself to a crawfish boil, learn to samba at the Wine Station, and go to Plum Bistro's vegan barbecue.

07/04/2018 By Grace Madigan

4x4

What to Do July Fourth

From the traditional to the fittingly progressive.

06/28/2018 By Seattle Met Staff

Meatless Matters

The Impossible Burger Makes Its Meatless Debut in Seattle

David Chang and Bill Gates like it. So does Tom Douglas, apparently.

11/03/2017 By Nosh Pit Staff

Treat Beat

Hey, Ballard: Frankie and Jo's Is Bringing Plant-Based Ice Cream Your Way

Come 2018, Autumn Martin and Kari Brunson will open a second location housing their frozen creations.

08/15/2017 By Rosin Saez

Dessert Dispatch

Vegan Ice Creamery Frankie and Jo's Opens This Week

With flavors like chocolate date and pumpkin butter, all from the minds behind Juicebox and Hot Cakes.

11/22/2016 By Allecia Vermillion

Plant-Based Excitement

Vegans Rejoice—The Cookie Counter Opens in Phinney Ridge Today

A lemon-hued storefront houses the ice cream and bakeshop on Greenwood Avenue.

07/19/2016 By Rosin Saez

Critic's Notebook

How Does Harvest Beat Compare to the Incomparable Sutra?

Let’s just say Seattle vegans aren’t being quiet about it.

05/02/2016 By Kathryn Robinson

Review

Harvest Beat Is Seattle’s New Vegan Standard-Bearer

The stunning talents of the team from Sutra are in evidence in its larger reincarnation up the street.

04/22/2016 By Kathryn Robinson

Critic's Notebook

Healthy Restaurant App Tasteful Comes to a Phone Near You

Craving paleo tonight? They got you.

02/18/2016 By Kathryn Robinson