My Fruitive Challenge: Day 96 — Restaurant Choices

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 I had a pleasant conversation with a restaurant owner/manager and his wife about my diet and how they used to be dedicated vegans for many years but have become more flexible these days mainly because of the foodie business they’re in and because their kids are not fully cooperative. 

I’ve visited a few restaurants, including theirs, The Sovengard (https://www.sovengard.com), and have begun to rate them by how accommodating they are with WFPB options.

 Minimally, I hope to see a small house salad served without cheese, croutons, or dressing. I was most impressed with Pepinos Sports Bar chain for their generous serving of a good looking salad. 

A couple restaurants impressed me with at least a couple of quality vegan or “vegan option available” selections: The Sovengard (https://www.sovengard.com) offered a charcuterie board called Mother Earth, and Blue Water enticed me with their vegan GF make-your-pizza choices with a large variety of toppings—I went with caramelized onions and sundried tomatoes on vegan-mozzarella (cashew) cheese GF pan pizza. like how the servers seem eager to speak to the chef to accommodate my needs as much as possible. 

Rich Roll recommends Happy Cow because he uses it all the time. I paid the $5. I like it. I eat out about once a month. So I plan to use it. I’ll compare it to the Vegan Maps app that I downloaded for free.

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