Many people are acknowledging surfacing diets that have been rising in popularity over the past couple of years. Some of these diets include foods that are gluten-free, non-genetically modified, and – the main focus of this article – vegetarian/vegan foods.
Nowadays there are more and more restaurants that offer vegetarian and vegan options. Restaurants like Red Robin, for example, will substitute the chicken or beef patty for a garden patty, which consists of various kinds of grains and vegetables.
Spokane, in particular, has a handful of restaurants as well as grocery stores that offer meatless, non dairy delicacies.
On the South Hill:
• Allie’s Vegan Pizzeria and Cafe
Offering many more types of vegan food besides pizza.
• Wellness Tree
A juice bar, which also doubles as a clinic providing holistic medical care, where you can find vegan juices, smoothies, as well as treats such as açaí bowls.
• MOD Pizza (one of three locations in town)
This pizza place lets you chose every topping and ingredient that you want on your pizza and they have tons of veggies to choose from and dairy-free cheese.
• Trader Joe’s (one of two locations in town)
This is not a restaurant, it’s a grocery store but happen to sell a lot of healthy options for vegans and vegetarians.
On the Northside:
•MOD Pizza
Second location.
•Method Juice Cafe (one of two locations in town)
All organic juices, smoothies and food.
•Trader Joe’s
Downtown/ Kendall Yards:
• MOD Pizza
• Method Juice Cafe
Second location.
•Boot’s Bakery and Lounge All vegan restaurant with dairy
options that serve everything from coffees to dinner meals to desserts.
• My Fresh Basket
A grocery store that sells a
lot of vegan and vegetarian foods and has a small juice and food bar inside.
• Main Market
Grocery store filled with vegan/ vegetarian options.
Jessica DeVore, of Boot’s Bakery, has been working at this restaurant for about three years. She’s been vegan for a decade now; the environmental benefits as well as physical and mental improvements were the incentives for this lifestyle.
“If you cut out dairy, you get
a nice and clean colon,” she said. “It’s a good place to study, we have free Wi-Fi, and you get free coffee refills.”
Those refills are often for drip coffee and dairy free lattes. These drinks as well as pumpkin waffles are the most popular items ordered.
There are also other restaurants in the area worth giving a try if you have not yet – they may not have tons of vegan or vegetarian options, but they’re dairy-free and meatless selection is impressive.
Some of these restaurants include:
Mizuna (Downtown Spokane), Wildsage (Downtown Spokane), Saranac (Downtown Spokane), Central Food (Kendall Yards), The Yards (Kendall Yards), Cascadia (North Side)
Below is a photo of Boot’s Bakery and Lounge located in downtown Spokane.
