South Florida Vegan Restaurants by Christine Najac
Beehive Juice Bar Cafe is a long standing icon in the vegan community and a favorite among vegans and vegetarians. The menu's foundation is Soups & Salads, Shake & Smoothies, Sandwiches & [daily] Specials; while seemingly typical make no mistake, Beehive is anything but typical and worthy of a visit. 6490 Bird Road Miami
Veganaroma is a vegan/raw restaurant with Italian flair and influence. House specialties are the zucchini lasagna, zucchini noodles with marinara sauce and walnut-mushrooms balls, and sweet potato ravioli with nut cheese, homemade pesto and marinara. 3808 SW 8th Street Coral Gables.
Sweat Records is Miami's only fully vegan coffee house. Each coffee/beverage is made to order. Open daily from 12 noon. 5505 NE 2nd Ave. Miami
Mi Vida Cafe is a vegan restaurant that supports local farmers and uses select organic ingredients when possible. With indoor and outdoor seating, in busy, bustling Miami this healthy haven serves up more than the common salad, making it the quiet little gem where the local vegans go. Popular menu items are the Quinoa Bowls, Vegan Living Pizzas, Seitan Marsala, and Lemon-Herbed Baked Tofu. 7244 Biscayne Blvd. Miami
The Honey Tree store/lunch shop. Menu changes daily offering hearty entrees to cool salads. Quiet and understated, very local. Timing is eveything in regards to waiting and getting your food. The Honey Tree is where the locals go for homemade vegan cooking. 5138 Biscayne Boulevard Miami.
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Living a vegan, organic, and raw lifestyle, is just that, a lifestyle; a choice, a way of life. While foreign to many, inconceivable to some, and completely out of the question to most, the choices, and options for food are diverse and varied, not to mention tasty and yes, palatable. There are extremists in all genres of life, but being a vegan and eating organic and raw is more than salad and tofu. A vegan diet excludes meat, eggs, dairy products and all other animal-derived ingredients. A vegan diet includes grains, beans, legumes, vegetables, and fruits. We set out on a road trip from Palm Beach Gardens to Coral Gables (Miami) and visited fourteen vegan restaurants, and one vegan coffee shop. We ate at all of them and was pleasantly surprised at the offerings, the quality, the care and the sheer creativity put forth into the menus. We are equal opportunity eaters and drinkers over here at SFFW and SFFG* so with an open mind, we ate zucchini bacon, walnut pate, tempeh bacon, tofu, and cashew cheese, and a lot of other health-centric foods. Yes it's different. Yes some of it is an aquired taste. I personally am all about texture, and actually love many foods, that those living a raw lifestyle would not necessarily embrace the way I do; so keeping in mind my mother's words, "you'll never know unless you try it". I will tell you that, black rice, quinoa vegetable bowls, and vegetable tacos have a place in my regular diet. The live food pizzas with a gluten free crust and vegan cheese...uh...I'm still
working on it........Rome wasn't built in a day.