Your Daily Vegan

(A quick and huge shout-out to Ms. Laura (aka Peace Chicken) for offering to be the gastro-tour guide for the YdV team.  Our day in Columbus, Ohio was filled with great vegan food and great vegan company.)

Brunch, dessert, and dinner can be had at will in this capital city and college town.  A simple search online can verify this, and so can I.

Welcome to brunch at Whole World Natural Restaurant on N. High street.  They’ve got a menu of variety for all tastes.  This is a self-described “vegetarian restaurant” with a “vegan option” on nearly every item (dairy is the ingredient to be substituted in most cases, eggs are in some items).  Be sure to to tell your server that you are vegan and commence ordering the “vegan option.”

Our choice:  Seitan Gyros

While not like a gyro at all, still delicious.

Friendly staff and fair prices at this small and homey eatery will lure us back in the future.

After galavanting around this cool town, it became the hour of indulgence.  What better way to indulge than to have sweet gooey pastries.  I give you- Pattycake Bakery, also located on N. High Street.

Dear Pattycake, I love you. Sweetly yours forever, Me.

You are enticing me with your menu, and I like it.

This all-vegan bakery has no limits when it comes to offering a gazzillion different choices.  Disclaimer- We don’t get to Columbus often, so we had to stuff our faces test many different pastries, for fear our lives wouldn’t be complete it would be some time before our next rendezvous.

Giggly with anticipation

So, a cashew cheesecake, chocolate raspberry cake with delicate whipped frosting, blueberry muffin, iced sugar cookie, pumpkin whoopie pie, lemon cupcake, sticky-bun later…. we had our testing results:  Quite easily a 5 Goatz experience.

Pattycake Bakery, we have been craving your sticky buns ever since we tasted the first bite.  Pure perfection.  Hope to see you soon.

After filling up, we were escorted away from the High street marketplace over to Hal & Al’s bar on Parsons Avenue.  Take a gander at this menu- greasy bar food gone vegan.  Hallelujah!

Pretty colors give way to an ALL VEGAN BAR FOOD menu. I'm still in shock.

Yes, you do see fried pickles and fried avocado on that menu.  And yes, they are down-right tasty.  We munched on these and sauerkraut balls, tacos, franks, and tacos.  Would have loved to sample more, but one can ingest only so much in a day.  It’s a bar, so they offer much to imbibe.  Not all the beer is vegan, so choose responsibly.

Fried Pickles. Enough Said.

Eating fried, and I mean fried, food makes me happy in a carnival kind of way.  Someday I will return to Hal & Al’s to try the rest of their menu.  Next time I’ll make sure I won’t be hopped up on sugar and filled to the brim with vegan treats, that will ensure maximum storage space for fried pickles.  Seriously, why didn’t someone tell me about those things?  They’re so addicting.  Yum!

I have affection for you Hal & Al's, I shall hug you.

Thank you Columbus, for your fine vegan food and your fine vegan peeps.  We will return, yes indeed, we will return.