Good Food, Innovative Menu, Lousy Service

Is there a better way to review vegan restaurants?

I published this article over a year ago in Medium. Just some conversation, now that we all have been re-entering restaurants.

I am done with black bean burgers. Over. Finished. Kaput.

Sure, early on in my vegetarian life, finding a black bean burger in a standard Americana restaurant was a coup. It was an actual vegetarian meal, not simply a weak combination of salads or sides. Black beans were almost exotic in the pinto-standard Midwest. But that was many decades ago. Now, every black bean burger I see, even a good one, reeks of tokenism. It tells me this is the best you’re going to find in our carnivore establishment…

The rest of the article can be found on Medium.