Crossroads Kitchen in Los Angeles
Crossroads Kitchen is located in Los Angeles and is LA’s favorite for plant-based fine dining. Tal Ronnen, owner and chef, is a well-known plant-based culinary innovator. Crossroads Kitchen has multiple decades of experience serving plant-based innovative creations with top-quality ingredients. Crossroads Kitchen serves a brunch menu with natural ingredients that provide an experience of well-known dishes, all without any animal ingredients. Tal Ronnen and Crossroads Kitchen have crafted lunch and dinner menus that offer recognizable classic fares, not ordinarily expected at plant-based restaurants. Ask any long-term vegan where they would like to have a special occasion dinner; it’s going to be Crossroads Kitchen. Crossroads Kitchen has earned an official ‘TVD Recommendation’ status.
PLANTA Cocina in Los Angeles
PLANTA, PLANTA Queen, and its many varied concepts have long been a favorite of The Vegan Digest. The restaurant offers chef-crafted, balanced, and delicious signature dishes as well as many traditional classics from varied cuisines. Review the restaurant group’s various locations at their website, linked below for your perusal. The restaurant group was named TVD’s #1 Market Presence Favorite in 2023.
Monty’s in Los Angeles
Monty’s Good Burger is a popular LA quick-service restaurant group that offers burgers, fries, shakes, and more. This modern-diner menu is easily better than most non-vegan restaurant chains that serve American classic entrees and desserts. Monty’s often offers their delicious menu via mobile food truck(s). They also operate at music festival events on the west coast of the United States, from time to time. Expect Monty’s to continue to provide customer-satisfying menu items in Los Angeles for the foreseeable future. Monty’s Good Burger is rated as ‘Authentic’ within the ‘TVD Culinary Innovators’ watchlist.
Plant Power Fast Food in Los Angeles
Plant Power Fast Food is a fun and retro-branded burger chain of fast-casual restaurants that offer plant-based burgers, fries, and milkshakes. This plant-based, quick-service restaurant serves breakfast with options for hashbrowns, breakfast burritos, breakfast bagels, bacon-egg-and-cheese croissants or muffins, sausage-egg-and-cheese croissants or muffins, and even more fully plant-based menu items. Plant Power Fast Food develops highly creative and fun dessert menu items such as cheesecakes, pies, cookies, blizzards, milkshakes, soft-serve ice cream, ice cream sundaes, floats, and more. They have locations in San Diego, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Sacramento, and more. Plant Power Fast Food restaurant build-outs compete with traditional fast-casual restaurant venues and are either standalone venues or storefronts within shopping plazas. TVD has yet to visit Plant Power Fast Food, and so, if you do visit, let us know how you enjoyed the experience!
Veggie Grill & Next Level in Los Angeles
Next Level Burger and Veggie Grill are two legacy brands that have since merged, while maintaining distinct operating brands. Their respective menus offer a variety of comfort foods such as burgers, wraps, mac n’ cheese, vegetable dishes, desserts, tailored seasonal menu items, and more. They have locations in Boston, Los Angeles, NYC, Seattle, Portland, San Diego, San Francisco, San Jose, Denver, Austin, and more. Their restaurant build-outs compete with traditional fast-casual venues and are either standalone venues, storefronts within shopping plazas, or nestled within markets such as Whole Foods Market. TVD is yet to visit, and so, if you do visit, let us know how you enjoyed the experience!
Tane Vegan Izakaya in Los Angeles
Tane Vegan Izakaya provides a high-end full-service experience. They open early in the evening for dinner service across several locations in several cities such as Honolulu, Los Angeles, Palo Alto in Santa Clara, and Berkeley in the San Francisco Bay Area. Chefs at Tane, such as founder Chef Lui, “blend fresh locally sourced ingredients with authentic Japanese techniques” to develop visually appealing and delectable menu items. Tane highlights its “sushi rolls, tempura, ramen, and small plates” among other menu items. Tane translates to ‘seed’ in Japanese, ‘serving as a commitment to newer ideas of sustainable and innovative dining.’ TVD is yet to visit Tane and so, if you do visit, let us know how you enjoyed Tane Vegan Izakaya!
Mr. Charlie’s in Los Angeles
Mr. Charlie’s is self-described as able to prove that “fast food can be ethical, joyful, and full of purpose.” They expect, “through sustainability, community impact, and commitment to fun, that their restaurant brand challenges norms, creates demand, and aspires to impact the conversation on what fast food can and should be.” Mr. Charlie’s offers breakfast muffins, tater tots, burgers, chick’n nuggets, fries, desserts, and more. They have locations in Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco, and more. TVD has yet to visit Mr. Charlie’s, and so, if you do visit, let us know how you enjoyed Mr. Charlie’s!
