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!

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.

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.

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.

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.

The Meat-Free Week fun will continue all through the weekend.  Sunday from 2pm – 5pm we’re taking over Boundary Stone.

What’s more, the awesome folks at DC Brau are bringing a keg of their Corruption Ale!  DC Brau is a great way to wash down Boundary Stone’s legendary seitan wings.

In addition to those vegan wings, Boundary Stone’s Chef Vince is also whipping up a selection of seasonal salads, a hummus appetizer, butternut squash bisque, Vietnamese-style fresh summer rolls, and an entree of  slow roasted portobella mushroom served over chimichurri quinoa with a winter root vegetable ragout and red wine-blood orange gastrique.

Update: With every vegan option purchased, you’ll receive a mug of DC Brau Corruption Ale — compliments of  DC Brau and Boundary Stone.  (Limit of one per person.)  Any sales of Corruption Ale will  be donated to charity!

R.S.V.P. here.

Huge thanks to Chef Michael Giacomello, and Kimberly Bryden of Whole Foods, for rocking last night’s vegan cooking class.  Chef Mike showed a very full room how to prepare seitan piccata al minute.  Enormous thanks also go to Doron Petersan and the staff of Sticky Fingers for whipping up more than 40 delicious BBQ dinners at our kick-off party!

Tonight, the fun heads east as H Street Goes Veg!  Check out offerings like Granville Moore’s vegan sausage, pepper and onion subs, or Smith Commons’ chickpea ravioli with curry coconut sauce.  Save room for pie at Dangerously Delicious, where you’ll save 10% off your slice — and another 10% of your check will benefit Compassion Over Killing!

And don’t forget to take lots of pics for our photo contest!  You can submit as many entries as you like to win our prize pack, which includes 2 quarts of soup from Souper Girl and $25 to try the vegan menu at Founding Farmers.  Our only rule: be creative!

We’re excited to announce that we’ve added Heritage India Dupont Circle and Heritage India Georgetown to Meat-Free Week‘s week-long specials!  Check out the revised line-up here.

Also, tune-in Sunday, February 4, to hear Foodie and the Beast chat Meat-Free Week.  The show starts at 11am.  Expect to hear Meat-Free Week news around 11:50.

After that, head to Bread & Brew for the Super Bowl Party to benefit Compassion Over Killing.  Consider it a warm-up to our Monday kick-off party!

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