Bar Verde is a vegan and gluten-free restaurant with Mexican influence in New York. The menu includes sustainable tacos, ceviches, burritos, quesadillas, tequila and mezcal, and more. Not only are the burgers excellent here, several side dishes, such as the burnt broccoli salad, are fantastic. Easily one of the best vegan restaurants in New York.
From veggie burgers to dim sum, from the Upper West Side to Crown Heights, the amount and diversity of vegan food is endless in New York City. While the restaurant has some meat dishes, they also serve some of the tastiest vegan and vegetarian sandwiches in the city. The vegan cause fainted when Swiss-born superchef Daniel Humm announced that his acclaimed haute cuisine restaurant Eleven Madison Park would become fully vegan. Vegan restaurants in New York are so spacious that it's almost impossible to eat them all on one trip or even on several trips.
Increasingly, New York restaurant owners are focusing their attention on vegan and vegetarian food, regardless of whether they themselves follow a meatless diet. Amanda Cohen has been at the forefront of fun, experimental vegan dining here in New York for more than a decade (long before the Eleven Madison Park team tried it). They also have a second business, a vegan bakery, called Bunny Treats Vegan Bakery, located in the same place. And since then, many other plant-based restaurants have opened, giving New York City's dining scene a legion of sophisticated vegan and vegetarian restaurant options.
This vegan Chinese restaurant has a short menu, so bring some friends and order just about anything. David Farley is a food and travel writer based in the West Village whose work appears regularly in the New York Times, National Geographic, the BBC and Food %26 Wine, among other publications. Chef Amanda Cohen's Lower East Side restaurant seems to be the root that helped New York City's dynamic vegan and vegetarian dining scene flourish.
