Posts tagged VEGAN
OPHELÍA
OPHELÍA

Ophelia is authentically Mexican—something Higareda wanted to return to. The Veracruz-born chef has worked all over the globe: He honed avant-garde techniques as a sous chef at Michelin-stared restaurants in Spain and France, saw the explosion of TexMex while working as a chef in Al Paso, and grew a distaste for monoculture agriculture systems in Peru and Argentina—a time when chemical-company Monsanto (now Bayer) expanded its monopoly on the growth of corn. “I hate Monsanto,” he says with a grin. Higareda even took a three-year hiatus from cooking to play professional basketball in Mexico. (When the team sold him to a city he didn’t like, he returned to the kitchen to further explore his love for food.)

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OLYMPIC VILLAGETracy GieszCASUAL, PATIO, FARM-TO-TABLE, VANCOUVER, VEGAN, VEGETARIAN, OPEN-LATE, WIFI, COMFORT-FOOD, GLUTEN-FREEComment
KOKOMO
KOKOMO

Kokomo is a winsome new addition to the Chinatown/Strathcona neighbourhood. The area has had a significant influx of new cafés and eateries sprouting up over the past couple of years, but none quite as vibrant and refreshing as Kokomo. We’d like to get you excited about Kokomo for two reasons: their robust vegan food (the whole menu is “gluten-free, refined sugar-free, vegan, and largely nut-free”) and that they are open for lunch. Serving up bowls and smoothies from 7:00 am to 3:00 pm Kokomo offers early birds the opportunity of a nourishing breakfast on their dash to work.

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CHINATOWNTracy GieszVANCOUVER, VEGAN, VEGETARIAN, CASUAL, LUNCHComment