Tea & Cupcakes: Upcoming Vegan Events

Posted by Amber McDonald on Feb 21, 2012 in Events, Food, Restaurants | 0 comments

Meat-Free Week: Continuing Specials at Casa Oaxaca and Photo Contest Winner

Posted by Amber McDonald on Feb 21, 2012 in Events, Food, Meat-Free Week, Restaurants | 0 comments

Thank you to everyone who helped make Meat-Free Week such a success this year!  We’ve heard great things, especially from our participating restaurants.  In fact, the folks at Guajillo Grill and Casa Oaxaca had such a great Meat-Free Week, they’ve decided to extend their vegan prix fixe menu until the end of the month!

Beginning in March, the sister restaurants will have a rotating selection of seasonal vegan options.  Let your servers know your favorite items from the prix fixe menu and they just may find a permanent spot on the menu!

Please support our new friends at Casa Oaxaca and Guajillo Grill as they make their restaurants more delicious spots.

Finally…drum roll please…congrats to Mike F., who won our photo contest with his submission below.  Mike definitely made the most of it went H Street went veg!

Meat-Free Week: Dine Out for Kindness, Compassion

Posted by Amber McDonald on Feb 13, 2012 in Events, Food, Meat-Free Week, Restaurants | 0 comments

Today is the final day of Meat-Free Week!  Join us at Nage as we celebrate with a 5-course vegan dinner.  Half of the proceeds will benefit The Kindness Collective and Compassion Over Killing.

This is also our last call for submissions to the photo contest.  Get those pics to amber@dcvegan.org by noon tomorrow for your chance to win a $25 gift card to Founding Farmers to sample their vegan menu, two quarts of soup from SouperGirl, books Appetite for Reduction by Isa Chandra Moskowitz and The Conscious Cook by Tal Ronnen, Volumes 5, 6, and 7 of Dr. Michael Greger’s Nutrition Series on DVD, and a t-shirt in your size.

Your Meat-Free Weekend

Posted by Amber McDonald on Feb 10, 2012 in Events, Food, Meat-Free Week, Restaurants | 0 comments

It was great seeing so many of you out for last night’s Vegan Drinks!   Huge thanks to John Schlimm who came from Pennsylvania to participate in Meat-Free Week!  John, you’re amazing!

A quick (p)review of the weekend ahead – 

Friday: Raw-k Out at Elizabeth’s Gone Raw.  Mention “Meat-Free Week” for a free cocktail.

Saturday:  The Vegan Craft Beer Dinner at Bread & Brew is sold out.  If you’re going, I’ll see you there.  If not, it’s a great time to try out one of the amazing week-long restaurant specials listed at the bottom of this post.

Sunday:  Sunday Funday!  From 2 to 5, we take over Boundary Stone for their famous seitan wings, DC Brau, and more.  R.S.V.P. here.

Meat-Free Mid-Week

Posted by Amber McDonald on Feb 9, 2012 in DC Vegan Drinks, Events, Food, Meat-Free Week, Restaurants | 0 comments

It’s Day 4 of our 8-day Meat-Free Week! Check out the fun we’ve had in our event photos section, and don’t forget to submit your pics to amber@dcvegan.org for a chance to win an awesome prize pack!

Tonight, we head to Meridian Pint for Vegan Drinks with John Schlimm, author of The Tipsy Vegan.  Books can be purchased for $15 ($2 off the cover price!), and sales will benefit The Kindness Collective.

To help us celebrate, Meridian Pint will feature food and drink specials from the book, in addition to their regular menu.  Sip on Midori Sour Patch and Rum Tum Tum cocktails, and nosh on The Sluper’s Kale and Potato Soup, Corn & Poblano Shindig Salad, and Buxom Broccoli Sesame.

R.S.V.P. here.

One last tip: Today is the last day to take advantage of SouperGirl‘s online discount — use code “meatfree” for 10% off your order — so get your orders in!  You can still get 10% off in-store through Monday.

For your ease, our week’s calendar again:

If you want to print out the calendar here is the PDF version.

Meat-Free Week: 2nd Report from the Front Lines

Posted by Amber McDonald on Feb 8, 2012 in DC Vegan Drinks, Events, Food, Meat-Free Week, Restaurants | 0 comments

This morning, we’re humming “Oh What A Night” and trying to change the lyrics to fit H Street.  (It’s harder than it sounds.)  But, really, what a night!  We’re so excited to hear how many of you hit up multiple H Street spots to indulge in as much veggie goodness as possible.  We indulged in the spicy, doughy Fat Tire Beer Brat Pie at Dangerously Delicious.  And this tweet from @djbays made our day: “Tasty vegan sausage & pepper sandwich at @GranvilleMoores last night. Pls keep it on the menu past meat-free week!” 

Thank you, Meat-Free Week-ers; thank you, H Street; and thank you, Margaret Holwill, without whom we couldn’t have pulled it off!

Yesterday you went to H Street, but today the food comes to you.  It’s Food Truck Day!  Check out the full list of participating food trucks here.   Find the location of your fav on twitter, or use the Washingtonian’s handy dandy guide.  We’re excited to share that the Foljol Bros. new vegan item will be mushroom drunken noodles.  You can get it on their Volathai truck, which will be at 12th & G for lunch, 11:48-1:52 (their hours, not ours).

Eat up, DC!  And we’ll see you tomorrow at Vegan Drinks with The Tipsy Vegan!

P.S.  Soyummi is celebrating Meat-Free Week with deals on its pudding 4-packs at DC area Harris Teeter and Giant locations.  Get all the details on their website.