Vegetarian Fun Foods in Chicago
The streets of Chicago are filled with endless things to do, eat and see. Amidst the blues music, world class art and exquisite cuisine Chicago has to offer, are some green gems. Vegetarians, vegans and raw food dieters will be interested in the city's hidden hot spots for fun vegetarian dining. Whether you're after a fancy night on the town with colorful platters of food, or a casual vegan lunch for two, you can find it in Chicago. Does this Spark an idea?
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Alice and Friends
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Alice and Friends is a whimsical vegetarian café located on North Broadway Street in Chicago. Alice and Friends is not your typical green café. Its bright pink exterior, plum walls, mismatched furniture and collection of bizarre decorations transforms your dining experience into something out of Alice in Wonderland. The menu is Korean-inspired, featuring meat substitutes, noodles, veggies, rice, skewers, soups, salads and desserts.
Karyns
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Karyns is a vegan raw food restaurant with vegetarian and meat options, as well. Though not much actual cooking is done there, the plates are arranged in colorful and flavor-filled ways. Daytime raw food meals include items like vegetable salad with red cabbage and curry sauce. The nighttime entrees include wild rice with shitake mushrooms, portabella neopolitan, Swedish crepes and basil ravioli. Evening dining at Karyns is formal. This is a good place to take a vegan date.
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Handlebar
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Handlebar offers a fun, casual café-like dining experience with an emphasis on cycling. As if the large bicycle wheel painted on the buildings sign isn't enough of a clue, the café's name should elude to the fact that it's a bicycler pit-stop. Open for breakfast, brunch and dinner, handlebar serves up all-American food Vegan-style. In addition to vegan breakfast burritos, Chicago tofu and buffalo faux chicken wings, the restaurant's beer garden serves alcoholic beverages to guests over 21.
Blind Faith Cafe
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Blind Faith is a Chicago café serving all vegetarian cuisine. It is open for breakfast, lunch, brunch, dinner, dessert and cocktails. From fresh fruit, pancakes and tofu chilaquiles in the morning, to spinach lasagna and Mongolian stir fry at night, the menu at blind faith adapts throughout the day. Additionally, the restaurant is home to its own bakery that sells fresh baked breads, pastries and cakes. Gluten-free, sugar-free and vegan options are available through Blind Faith bakery as well.
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