Whole Foods Foggy Bottom Offers Slew of Veg Events
Since its opening, Whole Foods Foggy Bottom has been my vegan port in the storm that is the West End. And they keep finding new ways to impress me. The latest? A nearly constant stream of awesome in-store veg happenings.
This Saturday from 3-5pm, Whole Foods Foggy Bottom will host a kale-themed “Brews and Bites.” Attendees will enjoy 5 beers and 5 food pairings for just $5. The menu includes vegan items like garlicky kale salad, kale soup, and kale pesto pasta. Also on offer will be a vegetarian kale and artichoke dip, and a vegetarian strudel.
During US VegWeek, Whole Foods Foggy Bottom will host even more veg-friendly events, including a vegan cooking class and another all-vegan edition of “Wine Down Wednesday.” Don’t miss out!
Saturday, April 13 — 3-5pm, $5, kale-themed Brew & Bites
Monday, April 22 — 6-7pm, Free, Vegan cooking class (R.S.V.P. to rachel.morris@wholefoods.com)
Wednesday, April 24 — 5-7pm, $5, all-vegan Wine Down Wednesday (5 wines and 5 vegan bites!)
Friday, April 26 — 6-8pm, $5, coconut-themed Brew and Bites with vegan coconut rice, vegan coconut chicken, vegan coconut fruit salad, and vegetarian macaroons
Saturday, April 27 — 3-5pm, Free, Store-wide sampling of favorite vegan products
Meat-Free Weekend
Thursday night, over 100 Meat-Free Week‘ers raw’ked 
out with DC Vegan Drinks at Elizabeth’s Gone Raw. Our raffle items raised nearly $200 to benefit The Kindness Collective‘s work with domestic violence victims and their pets. Thanks again to Elizabeth’s and Eco-Artware.com.
Unfortunately, our vegan pop-up dinner and Saturday Muse brunch are both sold out. If you missed your chance to sign up for these events, you can still enjoy a Meat-Free Weekend with a cooking class with Mimi Clark or the first annual Love Your Body! Vegan Cooking Class & Dinner. During Love Your Body!, Dr. Ruby Lathon will demonstrate how to prepare a delectable Valentine’s-themed dinner of savory vegan meatballs in BBQ sauce, a chocolate cherry smoothie, raw chocolate fudge brownies, and more! You’ll enjoy a delicious dinner at the end of the class and leave with recipes to recreate your experience.
Dr. Ruby is offering $5 off her class for all Meat-Free Week’ers. To take advantage of this deal, enter promotional code “MFW” on the ticket page.
And don’t forget about our amazing week-long specials! Why not swing by SouperGirl for 10% a big bowl of hot soup, or enjoy $2 off all vegetarian and vegan entrees at Meridian Pint? Yum!
One more delicious tip: Goûter, the awesome folks behind the food at our weekend pop-up, are teaching a hands-on cooking class at Living Social on Saturday mornings throughout February and March. Learn how to prepare three brunch dishes and one brunch cocktail: a goldenberry and basil bellini, banana yogurt with seasonal fruit, raw cinnamon roll with maple and apple, and seasonal vegetable quiche with a sprouted buckwheat crust and sundried tomato bacon. You can sign up here.
Discounted Cooking Classes for Meat-Free Week Supporters
Mimi’s Sunday, February 10th class offers you a chance to put a healthy slant on foods that satisfy and de-stress. Her demonstration classes include recipes, organic food samples, manufacturers’ samples and coupons.
To participate, make checks payable to Mimi Clark, 9302 Hallston Ct., Fairfax Station, VA 22039. Sorry, no phone or email reservations. Seventy-two hour cancellation policy for refund or credit. Email veggourmet@aol.com, or call 703.643.2713 for space availability.
And stay tuned as both Rachel and Mimi will have more cooking classes next month!
DC’s Fourth Annual Meat-Free Week
“Just as Lex Luthor has Superman, Wolverine has Sabretooth and Dudley Do-Right has Snidely Whiplash, ‘Meat Week’ now has an arch-nemesis, enter ‘DC Meat-Free Week.’” –This Dish Is Veg
Monday, February 4th to Monday, February 11th, DCVegan, The Kindness Collective and Compassion Over Killing present the fourth annual Meat-Free Week! We’re extremely excited to feature the return of some past Meat-Free Week favorites, like the incredibly popular BBQ Kick-Off Party at Sticky Fingers and more “raw”king options from Elizabeth’s Gone Raw. This year promises to be a feast for the stomach as well as the eyes with a vegan pop-up dinner at gallery 410 GooDBuddY and a brunch at Todd Gray’s Muse at The Corcoran.
Check out a comedy show or a cooking class, make new friends at DC Vegan Drinks – we’ve got something for everyone! Meat, meet your match.
Drum roll please…
DAILY SCHEDULE
Monday, February 4
Sticky Fingers Sweets & Eats
1370 Park Road, NW
6:30 pm – 9 pm
Our 2nd annual BBQ Kick-Off Party! Enjoy a full meal of BBQ, purple slaw, collard greens, cheezy jalapeno corn bread, and a special cupcake for only $17.99! Dine-in with your Meat-Free Week organizers. Carry out also available.
R.S.V.P. here. Guarantee your seat by calling Sticky Fingers at (202) 299-9700 on Feb. 4, after 7 a.m.
[The Whole Foods cooking class originally listed as Feb. 4 will occur on Feb. 11. Thanks for your understanding!]
Tuesday, February 5
Casa Oaxaca
2106 18th Street, NW
It’s Tequila Tuesday! Head over to Casa Oaxaca for a delicious 3-course meal of traditional Mexican favorites, veganized.
To dine with your Meat-Free Week organizers at 6:30 p.m., R.S.V.P. on facebook.
Wednesday, February 6
Whole Foods Market Foggy Bottom
2201 I Street, NW
5 pm – 7 pm
Whole Foods’ weekly Wine-Down Wednesday goes vegan! For only $5 enjoy five different samples of wine and gourmet dishes. The glass is yours to keep!
Thursday, February 7
Elizabeth’s Gone Raw
1341 L Street, NW
5:30 pm – 8 pm
Join DC Vegan Drinks as Elizabeth’s launches its new small-plates menu at this happy hour celebration! Don’t miss your chance to enter a raffle for a full dinner for two at Elizabeth’s Gone Raw! All raffle proceeds benefit The Kindness Collective.
R.S.V.P. here.
Friday, February 8
410 GooDBuddY
410 Florida Avenue, NW
8 pm – 10 pm
Enjoy a 4-course vegan meal by the folks of Goûter (plus welcome cocktail + $15 Uber credit toward your ride home), all while surrounded by the art of Dana Ellyn, in this unique, 3-night-only pop-up restaurant. All proceeds benefit The Kindness Collective and Compassion Over Killing.
Seats are very limited; advance donation ticket, available here, required. Sorry, this event is sold out!
Saturday, February 9
Todd Gray’s Muse at The Corcoran
500 17th Street, NW
11 am – 1 pm
Savor an all-you-can-eat vegan brunch and the chance to chat with vegan comedian and fellow bruncher Myq Kaplan. Myq, who will be performing Friday and Saturday at Arlington Draft House, will join Meat-Free Week brunchers for a bite at Todd Gray’s Muse. Be sure to say hi to Myq! Todd Gray’s Muse will donate 20% of ticket sales to Compassion Over Killing.
Limited seating available; R.S.V.P. here. Sorry, this event is full. To join the waitlist, please call 202-639-1786.
410 GooDBuddY
410 Florida Avenue, NW
8 pm – 10 pm
Enjoy a 4-course vegan meal by the folks of Goûter (plus welcome cocktail + $15 Uber credit toward your ride home), all while surrounded by the art of Dana Ellyn, in this unique, 3-night-only pop-up restaurant. All proceeds benefit The Kindness Collective and Compassion Over Killing.
Seats are very limited; advance donation ticket, available here, required. Sorry, this event is sold out!
Sunday, February 10
Cooking Class with Mimi Clark
Fairfax Station, VA
$5 off for Meat-Free Week’ers
More details here.
Email veggourmet@aol.com,
or call 703.643.2713 for space availability.
410 GooDBuddY
410 Florida Avenue, NW
6 pm – 8 pm
Enjoy a 4-course vegan meal by the folks of Goûter (plus welcome cocktail + $15 Uber credit toward your ride home), all while surrounded by the art of local vegetarian and painter Dana Ellyn as she riffs on what it means to eat animals, in this unique, 3-night-only pop-up restaurant. All proceeds benefit The Kindness Collective and Compassion Over Killing.
Seats are very limited; advance donation ticket, available here, required. Sorry, this event is sold out!
Monday, February 11
Learn how to cook a vegan favorite…then head over to The Wonderland Ballroom for our closing celebration!
Whole Foods Market Foggy Bottom
2201 I Street, NW
6 pm – 7 pm
Join Rachel’s free monthly vegetarian cooking class to learn how to make new vegan favorites.
Class size is limited; R.S.V.P. to rachel.morris@wholefoods.com Sorry! This class is full!
The Wonderland Ballroom
1101 Kenyon Street, NW
6:30 pm – ??
It’s our Meat-Free Week closing celebration! Enjoy specials like vegan sloppy joes, meatless-meatball sandwiches, spicy sweet potato bean burritos, and peanut butter cookies.
Join your Meat-Free Week organizers at 6:30 pm. $2 off vegan entrees during happy hour. Want to get a head start? Happy hour starts at 5!
STAY TUNED TO DCVEGAN.ORG FOR WEEK-LONG SPECIALS!
Thank you to 410 GooDBuddY, Elizabeth’s Gone Raw, Gouter, Myq Kaplan, Sticky Fingers Sweets & Eats, Todd Gray’s Muse, Uber, the Vegan Sommelier, and Wiebenson & Dorman Architects PC. Without their generous donations of time, space, and more, we couldn’t have pulled this week together!
January Cooking Class with Mimi Clark
Soups & Stews, Sunday, January 13 (waiting list only), or January 20, 2013, 10 a.m. – 1 p.m. Fairfax Station, VA
Start the new year with hearty, winter-warming one pot meals. Learn to make vegan soup stock and from there, build heart-healthy one-pot meals such as Chicken Noodle Soup, Minestrone Soup, Lentil Barley Soup, Creamy White Bean Soup with Wasabi Pesto, Black Bean Chili, Potato Leek Soup, Herbed White Bean Cassoulet, North African Stew, Paella, Black Bean Fejoda, Beef-style Stew, Vegetable Melange, Goulash, Seitan Bourgiugnonne, Hoppin’ John, Moong Dal, Pasta Fagioli, and Skillet Cornbread. Beyond Meat will be sampled.
Make checks payable to Mimi Clark, 9302 Hallston Ct., Fairfax Station, VA 22039. Sorry, no phone or email reservations. Seventy-two hour cancellation policy for refund or credit. Class subject to cancellation if minimum enrollment is not met.
Email veggourmet@aol.com, or call 703.643.2713 for space availability.
More December Cooking Classes — With Mimi Clark
Move Over Martha! Learn to make heartfelt, vegan gifts and party fare with Mimi Clark. Past classes have included some of the following holiday cookies, rugelach, cranberry cheesecake, chocolate peanut butter cups, and more. 
When: Sunday, December 9, 10 a.m
Where: Fairfax Station, VA
Cost: $55/person; $100/two people; $50/VSDC, VRG, COK members
To Register: Make checks payable to Mimi Clark, 9302 Hallston Ct., Fairfax Station, VA 22039. No phone or email reservations
Please note: 72-hour cancellation policy for refund or credit. Class subject to cancellation if minimum enrollment is not met. Gift certificates available.About DC Vegan
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