After our recent burger-o-rama, I want to give a little love to vegetarian readers of this blog and those who aren't into meat in a big way.
I've been a little hesitant about doing a Top Ten Best Vegetarian Restaurants because I'm not sure we have ten of them in this area, best or not. I did do a Top Ten Places to Eat Healthier earlier, which included my favorite vegetarian restaurants.
But if you frequent vegetarian places you might be interested in this contest:
Well, this crew is certainly planning to eat healthier in the new year. I asked for suggestions and got exactly one response. I've gotten more recommendations asking for Turkish-Irish restaurants that serve sushi.
Thank you, MD Canon. Not only does he/she have a suggestion, he/she explains exactly how to eat healthily there. I couldn't do any better, so I refer you directly to the post.
I didn't want to make this just a list of vegetarian restaurants. (That's another Top Ten.) Instead these are places that are promoting the idea of healthy eating in various ways. Because of that, I think they will be sympathetic to whatever your special dietary requests are.
I also didn't want to fill up the list with ethnic restaurants, but you should always consider them when you're trying to improve your eating habits. They tend to go easy on the meat, heavier on the vegetables and whole grains; and if you stay away from the deep-fried offerings, they can be lower fat.
But keep in mind that with Asian restaurants you may very well be getting more sodium than you should be eating.
I wanted to put Liquid Earth in Fells Point on my list, but I haven't heard anything about it lately, and when I called the phone rang and rang and there was no voicemail message. I know it's closed Mondays, but even so I wasn't comfortable including it.
Faithful Reader Frank Gomez passed along this link to VegBaltimore, a vegan and vegetarian guide to Baltimore. As he says, nice to see so many vegetarian listings.
In case I haven't said it enough times, I love tips. Tips are great. Thanks!
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I got this e-mail from Helen:
A group of co-workers at union memorial hospital want to give a doctor a gift certificate to a vegetarian restaurant. he lives in phoenix, so a place in the I-83 corridor would be perfect.
Here was my not completely satisfactory answer, so other suggestions are welcome: ...
