Austin is NOT vegan friendly... (Dallas, Portland: restaurants, food, trailer)

[alexiana]

PETA recently named Austin the nations most "vegan friendly" city and this really has me scratching my head because as a vegan, I do not feel Austin is a great city for vegans at all.

Sure there's a raw vegan restaurant, a couple of vegetarian places, and a handful of high-sodium, high cholesterol vegan trailers, but other than that, there's really not much else. The vast majority of restaurants serve dishes laden with animal products, and most make a big deal about modifying dishes to accommodate vegans.

Again, I think Austin's PR campaign has simply gotten out of control.

[Zzyzx]

Certainly over rated and very surprised considering the amount of health conscience, vegan, vegetarian people in this city.

It would be nice if Austin was sprinkled with a few of these:
Native Foods
Spiral Diner
Herbivore
Veggie Grill

[355spider]

Its kind of sad really. Dallas has a much better vegan raw restaurant, than anything in Austin.

[ImOnFiya]

I am sorry you are not pleased with Austin. But, considering this is America, food-wise being vegan and not pleased is normal right?

We have a raw vegan food restaurant on West 5th St. in Clarksville, Beets Café. I hear many hard-core vegans like the place..tasty, food is served at room temperature. I hope this helps!

[ScoPro]

My vegan son and his family haven't had any problems.

[TexasHorseLady]

Given that vegans constitute 2% of the population, do you think the percentage of restaurants in Austin offering vegan options is about that, less, or more, as a percentage of the available options for non-vegans (which includes vegetarians, who constitute 7% of the population)? Thinking of this from the standpoint of a business that has to have a large enough pool of customers to draw from, and a restaurant that offers vegan options along with food for a wider range of customers being more likely to stay in business long-term than one that offers only vegan food for that reason.

[Pretzelogik]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tiu0McvWSQ

[atxcio]

I'm not vegan, but I do like eating at the the Bouldin Creek Cafe Bouldin Creek Cafe and sometimes Casa de Luz http://www.casadeluz.org/austin/

[noellestar]

I have several friends who are strict vegans, and they have no issues finding restaurants to go to in Austin.

[AMJ27]

I've been a vegetarian for almost 20 years and I eat mostly vegan. I think Austin is very vegan friendly, but I was surprised when PETA named it the most vegan friendly city. From everything I've heard, Portland should have won that title. For a city the size of Austin, though, I think it has great options.