Music and Veganism

I haven’t taken a single picture since getting to San Diego on Friday.  Some things worth noting, however, include: 1. by Saturday morning all flights leaving Philadelphia were cancelled because 2. Philadelphia got 23 inches of snow, and 3. Saturday in SD was over 70 dgerees and sunny.  Awesome!

Anyways, no pictures, but I wanted to share some of the great food we’ve had so far.  First was the obligatory trip to Pokez (947 E St. San Diego, CA). Pokez has terrible service, but a great selection of veg’n Mexican food (and omni), and it’s really decently priced.  I always get a burrito but this time I sprung for the vegan potato flautas.  Damn, that was so much food.  It was great, but I don’t know if I can ever handle that much deep-fried flour tortilla again!

The next day we were all craving pho, so we hit up Phuong Trang (4170 Convoy St., San Diego, CA) because it had some veg’n selections.  I was expecting to get my favorite Vietnamese dish, which is the tofu bun dish.  Well, lo and behold, they had vegan pho!  That is a very rare find, as most Vienamese soups, even if “vegetable” are made with beef broth.  I’ve only had pho one other time in my life, and this was better.  For fish eaters, Phil got the seafood pho and said it was also the best he’d ever had, because they actually used good pieces of fish as opposed to the cheapest (I have to admit that concept is really gross to me).

Last night we tried out Ranchos Cocina (1830 Sunset Cliffs Blvd., San Diego, CA).  It was a really cute restuarant with a lot of veg’n options.  The same people actually run another restaurant and an all-vegan market in North Park.  The service was good and the vibe is great.  It’s a little pricier than Pokez, but it’s worth it for their ginormous menu, and there are some interesting things on there– I tried mole for the first time in my life!

Phil’s mom, Nancy, also made a delicious vegetable stew from the Moosewood Cookbook.  I forget what it was called, but it was awesome!  It had eggplant, squash, tomatoes… and what else?  I don’t know, but it sure was tasty.

We will be hitting up some other places this week.  We’re also having a BBQ tomorrow night, and a mostly-vegan Christmas dinner, so I’ll try to get pictures of those.