January 16th, 2012
Here’s what I ate on my last day in San Francisco. You can check out part 1 here.
You won’t find Sunrise on many vegan food lists for San Francisco but it was recommended to me by a friend who used to live there. They do serve meat but they also have a lot of great vegan options. I went there for breakfast and had the vegan breakfast burrito. Soyrizo, home fries, black beans and avocado all stuffed into a giant wrap. It was sooo yummy and ridiculously filling. I wasn’t hungry again for hours.
I had heard that having a burrito from Papalote was an essential San Fran experience so I headed there for lunch and had my second burrito of the day! I had the regular soyrizo burrito. It was also freaking huge! I’m known for eating ridiculously large amounts of food and I had some trouble finishing this burrito! It was really good but I think I actually liked my breakfast burrito better.
I spent the day strolling around the Golden Gate Park and visiting the Academy of Science and the Conservatory of Flowers. Then I headed up to 9th Ave and Irving area. I knew I wanted to go to Patxi’s Chicago Pizza (Irving location) for dinner but I was still stuffed from lunch so I strolled around for a little but. This is a great area, there are lots of neat shops, health food stores and bakeries with vegan goodies. I picked up some vegan cookies from Arizmendi Bakery (1331 9th Ave). When I was finally hungry again I headed back to Patxi’s. They have a bunch of crust options and after much deliberation I decided to get the ‘regular’ crust. This pizza was simply perfect, nothing more to say. Unfortunately I so excited to eat it that i didn’t get a great pic.
So far I had been really disappointed by the lack of exciting vegan ice cream options in San Fran. So you can image how excited I was to see this sign:
I went in and they had an entire case of vegan flavors. And not just fruit flavors. They also had vegan cookies and brownies and their waffle cones are vegan!!! The place is called Holy Gelato and they are only a few blocks from Patxi’s, so make sure you save room for dessert! I went for all the junky flavors with scoops of Coconut Heaven (coconut milk based ice cream with chocolate chips, toasted coconut and toasted almonds), Charlie Brown’s Nightmare (soy based ice cream with chocolate, peanut butter and cookies) and Irish Morning (coconut milk based with coffee, fudge, cookies and Whiskey). Best vegan ice cream I’ve tasted!!!!!!! This place is a must visit for vegans heading to San Fransisco!
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January 13th, 2012
After my trip to New Zealand I stopped in San Francisco for a few days. I will admit that gorging myself on delicious vegan food was the sole purpose for the trip and that I was certainly successful in my mission!My first stop was Herbivore in the Mission District for lunch. After spending a ridiculously long time looking at the menu I decided on the ‘chicken’ shwarma wrap. The wrap was delicious but the side salad was only meh. The service was also pretty bad, my server gave me the impression that my presence was inconveniencing her. But maybe she was just having a bad day.
That night I went to Ike’s Place for dinner. It’s a a really neat sandwich shop that isn’t vegetarian but has a ton of veg options including fake meat and Daiya. I had the Vegan Womanizer which is a breaded ‘chicken’ patty, Daiya and marinara sauce. Holy crap this was delicious!! Certainly one of the best vegan sandwiches I’ve had. Another bonus is that all the sandwiches come with a bag a chips. The only downside is that there isn’t any seating so you have to take it to go.
So breakfast was a soy latte and a salted caramel vegan donut. I’m normally disappointed by cake donuts but these actually tasted like donuts, not just cake with a hole in it. Yum!
That night for dinner I went to Millennium. I actually wasn’t sure if I was going to go there or not. Ottawa has an amazing high end vegan restaurant (Zen Kitchen) so that’s not something I feel like I’m missing out on, and having a fancy dinner by yourself isn’t exactly the most fun thing ever. But at around 6pm I found myself a few blocks from Millennium and starving so I figured why not. As a bonus it was one of the nights that they have a frugal foodie deal where you get an appetizer, entree and dessert for $39 which is a pretty good deal. My starter was a spinach salad with apple and smoked tofu. They smoke their own tofu and it was absolutely divine! My main dish was a pumpkin tamale. This was actually my first time having a tamale and it was delicious. My dessert was called Chocolate Almond Midnight – almond cashew crust, mocha chocolate filling, raspberry sauce, white chocolate mousse.
Check back soon for San Francisco Vegan Eats Part 2 featuring 2 kinds of vegan burritos, pizza and some of the best vegan ice cream I’ve ever had!
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