I'm vegan and I've been living here for over 4 years. While I would love to see a veggie restaurant in JH, I've even dreamed of opening one myself (a vegan Indian-Latin-Italian-German fusion experiment), but its not going to happen any time soon...I mean we've only had a coffee shop with soy milk for a year.
On the other hand you can eat vegetarian, even vegan, in JH every night for a month and not double up. Here are some of my favorites:
- Mexican - Coatzingo - $2 Veggie tacos are the best meal in JH and are vegetarian, no chicken stock in rice, no lard in beans. This was confirmed in a long Spanish conversation with the cooks. Go vegan - "sin queso, sin crema."
- Thai - Rice Ave. (and Arunee) - Soy duck is amazing. My favorites are the Crispy Duck Salad (sub soy duck) and the Spicy Basil Noodles with soy duck (no egg, no fish sauce. Nearly everything on the menu is potentially vegan, just order with tofu or soy duck and say "no fish sauce."
- Sushi - Happy Kitchen - lots of veggie options - love the gyoza, warm noodles, the soups, the green river roll, the spicy tofu crunch roll...
- Indian dining - Delhi Palace - amazing veggie food and plenty of vegan options, just ask what dishes don't contain ghee, cream, cheese, or butter.
- Indian cheap dosas - Dosa Place - I was distraught when Dimple (my favorite hole in the wall) closed, but the owner reopened a couple doors down where Dosa Diner used to be. Their dosas are amazing, they have on that I swear tastes like buffalo wings.
- Indian - Any other Indian place just ask what dishes don't contain ghee, cream, cheese, or butter.
- Afghani - Afghan Kabab House #4 - great eggplant and okra.
- Cheap Afghani - that place on the west side of 74th with the tandor in the window.
- Latin - Novo has some amazing veggie items on their menu, the veggie fajitas are delicious.
- Latin - Pio Pio has one of the best and most filling salads around (and I'm more of a hearty fake-meat and pasta kind of vegetarian).
- Cafe - espresso77 makes an ever improving soy cappuccino, soy cream cheese for bagels (not on menu, just ask), and has some nice veggie items on their revolving menu: hummus, roasted eggplant salad, grilled peanut butter and banana on whole wheat!
- Chinese - Nanking Express - Chinese-Indian place with 1/2 of their menu devoted to vegetarian choices. Great soft Chinese style tofu.
And these are just my favorites, there are many other Indian, Bengali, Pakistani, Peruvian...places that offer unique vegetarian dishes.
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