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There’s one easy way to support restaurants when they need it most: When you need a quick and healthy meal, show some love: Order in from your favorite plant-based restaurant. When it comes to the plant-based landscape, there’s no shortage of spectacular places in every state and now Yelp is prepared to help you find them. Just in time for Veganuary, Yelp has released a list of the top vegan restaurants in every state, and once travel restrictions and eating inside allows, you can plan your next visit to friends and family around the chance to eat at these restaurants in-person.
I’ve had my problems with Impossible Foods’ artificial beef. I first tasted it in a burger in 2017, when it appeared temporarily at select bistros around town. The texture was good, but the bright pink center the result of synthetic hemoglobin struck me as creepy, and the flavor was almost like beef, but not quite, which proved equally as distressing. In subsequent years, beef substitutes seem to have improved, or maybe cooks learned to put them into more suitable contexts.
When the White Castle Impossible slider came along, it was just as tasty as the chain’s regular burger; in fact, the fake meat was indistinguishable in its oniony grayness from the original. And more recently, the gloppy vegetarian burger at Pop’s Eat-Rite proved that the greasier and more lush the setting, the easier it is to camouflage the patty’s negative aspects. Pop’s cloaked it in sauteed onions and bright yellow American cheese, something like a Shake Shack burger. And now Impossible and i
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New York City is dotted with delis on nearly every corner, but Galioto’s in Little Italy sets itself apart as one of just a handful selling only plant-based goods. Located at 131 Mulberry Street, near Hester Street, the deli and Italian pantry staples store is the latest venture from the team behind popular NYC restaurants Jajaja Plantas Mexicana, Gelso & Grand, and Manero’s Pizza.
“This whole concept came together because of the pandemic,” says Nima Garos, who co-owns the restaurant alongside Koorosh Bakhtiar, his sister Nicole Galioto and Manny Del Castillo. “It’s based around grab and go and it’s pretty on track for what we wanted it to be.”