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Bo Kong Vegetarian Restaurant ****
For vegetarians, Bo Kong is a real treat.
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Canada's Most Veg-Friendly Cities: *
The word is that majestic Vancouver is Canada's most vegetarian-friendly city.
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Kaplan's Star Deli ****
Listen, bubeleh, oy, you'll kvell! Food that schmecks, and enough to satisfy the biggest fresser in the crowd. The corned beef is imported directly from Chicago (as are many of the Kosher salamis); there's real New York-style pickled tongue, smoked meat brought in from Montréal, and Ida Kaplan's -- the original Mrs. Kaplan's own recipes –- for chopped liver, eggplant spread and gefilte fish. The noisy extended-family atmosphere is a plus. Many vegetarian (dairy) choices. Home and office catering, too, condolence catering, and "Real Meals Family-Style Take-out Dinners," from $8.95 per person.
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Rubina Tandoori Restaurant ****
I am forever trying to discover the mystery behind Indian cuisine. The complexity of the spices, the pungent and aromatic flavours, and the heat of curries and chilies are as enigmatic as India itself. Rubina Tandoori Restaurant is one of those places that holds the secrets to these wonderfully exotic mysteries.
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Before you sink your teeth into that burger ... *
These appear to be tough times for meat-eaters in Canada: ostracized by popular movies like Babe, Chicken Run, and The Meatrix (a cult Internet hit); lambasted in the bestselling book Fast Food Nation; fearful of mad-cow disease, avian flu and PCBs in farmed salmon.
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Café Olive / Olive Cafe *** 1/2
Turkish restaurants in the Lower Mainland are quite rare. Olive Café, in addition to being Turkish, is also vegetarian.
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Café S'il Vous Plâit *** 1/2
Never confuse Cafe S'il Vous Plait with your standard greasy spoon diner. Yes, yes, it has booths in classic '50s style, and yes they serve rollicking good shepherd's pie, mac-and-cheese and fabulous pies, but this is comfort food with a healthy spin.
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OM Vegetarian Restaurant *** 1/2
Clean, bright and welcoming, this relatively new addition to the Cambie-south-of-City-Hall streetscape offers a full panoply of interesting and tasty vegetarian dishes -- and not just the expected Asian ones.
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Vancouver's 7th Annual Vegetarian Friendly Food and Lifestyle Show *
October 1 - 2, 2005, Vancouver, BC
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Vegging Out *
No longer the sole orbit of middle-aged ex-hippies, fanatical animal-rights activists, anemic health nuts and flaky movie stars, vegetarianism today is embraced by a wide assortment of people. And they are being converted younger than ever...
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