Top 5 Imitation Meat Plates (No Veggie Burgers Allowed)
by Andrew Parks
Philly Cheese Steak Sabrina's Café, 910 Christian St., 215-574-1599
The big conundrum: How does one vegetarianize the steak in this Philadelphia staple? Easy with a $7.95 man-wich made of sauteed onions, long hots, provolone cheese and expertly seasoned seitan. Weighing in sub size but with 1/100th the grease, it's served with a pile of sweet potato fries. Oh, good lord.
Grilled Seitan Tips Azure, 931 N. Second St., 215-629-0500
Sick of restaurants calling their menus vegetarian-friendly when they serve one house salad sans the ham chunks? Frustrated diners, meet Azure. Or more importantly, meet Azure's $8.50 fake filet tips grilled to perfection and dished up with a crunchy-sweet refried corn risotto cake, warm flour tortillas and a little dipper of soy chipotle aioli.
Chicken-Fried Steak Honey's Sit n Eat, 800 N. Fourth St., 215-925-1150 Who's down for some Southern Jewish fusion? Delicately breaded, deep fried and drenched in a veg-friendly gravy, the fake chicken-fried steak goes perfectly with a side order of Honey's green bean casserole, made with locally grown greens and kitchen-brewed cream of mushroom soup.
Grilled Tempeh Salad Sunwishes, 2027 Walnut St., 215-255-8408 Loaded with raw ingredients and rib-sticking substitutes, the California-inspired plates at this vegan haunt offer a little slice of healthy goodness right here in Fat City, USA. The tempeh salad in particular combines fresh spinach with marinated mushrooms, diced avocados and chewy sun-dried tomatoes. Tossed with a spicy-cool cucumber and horseradish dressing, it's groovy, man.
Deli Delicacies Natural Goodness Market & Café,2000 Walnut St., 215-977-7749
Attention salami-freaks-turned-vegheads. For $4.50, hungry lunchers can buy a seven-grain sandwich stacked with lettuce, tomatoes, bean sprouts and a choice of fake tuna salad (i.e. chickpeas), mock pastrami, a tempeh reuben or meatless meatballs. There's even eggless egg salad. Eggless egg salad, people!
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`From Anika,
"Jay, you're a racist"
People like Anika are why this sort of event has been going on for 40 years in the public schools. Rather than ` »
GODMAN ENZO ferrari, WE SAY JEWS ARE FRIENDS OF MUSLIMSBECAUSE HASRATH ALI WORKED WITH JEWS the holy quran with out rasool a khuda and his family, the book is only worth a car magzine on
`THE ATTACKS ON INDIANS BY THE PEOPLE OF 'OZ' IS NOT TRUE, ITS AN ATTACK ON CIA BY THE IRAN, THE IRANS DIRTY MAFIA PAYS GANGSTERS IN OZ, TO HIT INDIANS, ` »
`Wow. That pizza really looks delicious! I will definitely take my wife here in our Philadelphia dating getaway. Actually, she's kinda a pizza addict. ` »
`Dante,
You are a maniac. I have read your rants on a bunch of other posts, it's like you're obsessed. Maybe you should go down to the new site and ` »
`Wow - what a bunch of racist district administrators. Can someone forward this to the White House, this needs national attention or else it’ll be swept ` »
`Wow - what a bunch of racist district administrators. Can someone forward this to the White House, this needs national attention or else it'll be swept ` »
`1. Jodie Foster and Scott Baio in Bugsy Malone (1976)
2. Writer/Director Floria Sigismondi directed two of David Bowie's music videos: "Little Wonder" ` »
`First, Ewan McGregor did not play a journalist in this film. In fact, at one point, his character specifically says he is not a journalist. He plays a ` »
`What we have here is truly sad but real. I was born and raised in South Philly for 21 years. The schools I went to were diverse and to think that its ` »
`Once again, until the press exposed the lies and deception of the School District and Legreta Brown's incompetent administration of South Philadelphia ` »
The student the School District blamed for the violence at South Philadelphia High School shares his story. It's not the same one District officials have been telling.