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Vegetarian Restaurants and Other Resources

 

 

Restaurants:

Many restaurants offer a discount to Vegetarian Society of the District of Columbia members. This membership can save you a ton of money on all sorts of discounts, including travel, smoothies, yoga classes, skin care products and cooking classes.

 

District of Columbia

Amma Vegetarian Kitchen
3291 M Street, NW, 2nd floor
202-625-6625

Everlasting Life Coop/Eternity Juice Bar
2928 Georgia Avenue, NW
202-232-1700

Harmony Cafe
3287 M Street, NW
202-338-3881

Indian Delight
50 Massachusetts Avenue, NW
202-842-1040

Indian Delight
1100 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
202-371-2295

Java Green
1020 19th Street, NW
202-775-8899

Nirvana
1850 K Street, N.W.
202-223-5043

Pedro and Vinnys
vendor cart on K Street, NW

please check website for hours


Soul Vegetarian
2606 Georgia Avenue, NW
202-328-7685

Vegetate (serves dinner menu; check website for hours)
1414 9th Street NW
202-232-4585



Maryland

College Park
Berwyn Cafe
5010 Berwyn Road
301-345-9898

Clarksville
Great Sage (closed on Mondays as of Dec. 2005)
5809 Clarksville Station Drive
443-535-9400

Columbia
Mango Grove
6365 B Dobbin Road
410-844-3426

Gaithersburg
Madras Vegetarian Indian Cuisine
74 Bureau Drive
301-977-1600

Woodlands Indian Vegetarian
18216 Contour Road
301-963-4466

Langley Park
Udupi Palace
1329 University Boulevard, East
301-434-1531

Woodlands Indian Vegetarian
8046 New Hampshire Avenue
301-434-4202

Rockville
The Vegetable Garden

11618 Rockville Pike 
301-468-9301

Yuan Fu Vegetarian
798 Rockville Pike
301-762-5937

 

Virginia

Arlington

Saran Foods
5151 N. Lee Highway
703-533-3600

Chantilly
  Lotus Vegetarian
(in Sully Place near Lowes)

13872 Metrotech Drive
703-378-6888

Fairfax
Saravana Palace
11725 Lee Highway, #A15t
703-218-4182

Woodlands Pure Vegetarian Indian Restaurant
4078 Jermantown Road
703-385-1996

Falls Church
NEW! Sunflower Vegetarian Restaurant
6304 Leesburg Pike
703-237-3888

Vienna
Amma Vegetarian Kitchen
344 Maple Avenue East
703-938-5328

Sunflower Vegetarian Restaurant
2531 Chain Bridge Road
703-319-3888
 

Bakery:

Sticky Fingers Bakery
1904 18th Street, NW
202-299-9700
 

Other DC Area Vegetarian Resources:

Veggilicious DC area vegetarian site

Vegetarian Society of the District of Columbia

VegDC.com

VEG SOUL

Gails Vegetarian Catering

Mimi Clark's Vegetarian Cooking Classes

Pangea Vegan Products has a great selection of products, especially alternatives to leather clothing. Please note that their retail store is just open on weekends, but you can order online anytime.

Potomac Adventist Book and Health Food Store is a good place to shop for food if you prefer to shop in a store where all the food is vegetarian. It's pretty big, so they have some food items you normally don't see elsewhere.

Similarly, Takoma Park Silver Spring Food Co-op carries just vegetarian foods.

If you're interested in learning about raw food vegetarian diets, check out the workshops at Alive and Raw in the Richmond, VA area.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


   
Alexandra Paul on a vegetarian diet:

photo courtesy www.alexandrapaul.com

"I have been a vegetarian for 26 years, since I was 14 years old. I read Frances Moore Lappe’s “Diet for a Small Planet” and the book educated me on how important it was for the environment to eat lower on the food chain: raising cows, pigs and chickens to eat is a wasteful way to use resources, and in a world where the human population is doubling every 42 years, it is essential that we use land efficiently so that everyone can be fed. For example: if you had an acre of land and you grew potatoes on it, that acre would yield 20,000 pounds of potatoes. But if you used that same acre to grow grain to feed cattle, the cattle fed by that acre would only yield 165 pounds of beef! For every American that switches to a vegetarian diet, an acre of trees is spared every year. (Diet for a New America by John Robbins, page 363)

Another concern is that the livestock for American dinner tables produces 20 billion pounds of excrement EVERY 24 hours. A lot of that waste ends up in our rivers and groundwater. And speaking of water, over half the water consumed here in the United States goes to irrigate land growing feed and fodder for livestock. It takes 100 times more water to produce a pound of meat as it does a pound of wheat (Diet for a New America by John Robbins, page 367) – to produce a single pound of meat takes 2,500 gallons of water!

I have given you a lot of statistics, but perhaps the most important reason to be a vegetarian is because the way cows, pigs and chickens are kept before they are killed is terribly cruel. Factory farming, which enables us to have a steady and cheap supply of meat and fowl on our table, locks animals up in cramped and horrendous conditions for their entire lives. To eat meat and chicken is to condone that.

I have run marathons and triathlons on a vegetarian diet. I recently finished a 6 mile swim race. Being a vegetarian means being strong and healthy and free of the awful additives they give to animals.

Enjoy the wonderful vegetarian restaurants in DC!"

Be sure to visit her website at  
alexandrapaul.com.

 

 


You can download and print out a free mini poster to encourage meat-free meals at the David Suzuki Nature Challenge.

Dr. Joel Fuhrman finds that many of his vegetarian and vegan patients are deficient in the essential fatty acid DHA. DHA may be a factor for people with depression, post partum depression, and hyperactivity in children. While most DHA supplements are derived from fish oil, you can get vegan DHA (liquid) in vegicaps at Pangea Vegan Products in Rockville. You can get a bottle of liquid vegan DHA from Dr. Fuhrman's website.

Read endorsements of Food for Life by Nelson Mandela and Senator Arlin Specter.

Raw Food Meetups

Cookin' classes:

Mimi Clark's Vegan Cooking Classes

also: PCRM's classes

   

News:

 

You can print out beautiful images of foods to eat/avoid that accompany Dr. Neal Barnard’s Program for Reversing Diabetes

 

A small selection of meals prepared by The Vegetable Garden are available in the refrigerated section of My Organic Market.

 

Java Green
now gets 100% of their electricity from wind power, and is a member of the
Clean Energy Partnership!

Interview with Raw Food Expert Lynda Carter

 

Yoga Studios in the Washington, DC area

Yoga Studios

 

 
   

Not a vegetarian but want to to give it a try and don't know what to eat?

These are a few that are most anybody will like:

Yuan Fu:
(Mock) Chicken with cashews

Java Green:
Panini

Sunflower:
General Tso's Surprise

 

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