Veg Out Vegetarian Guide to San Francisco Bay Area (Restaurant Guidebooks for Vegetarian and Vegan Diners) [Paperback]

Michele Anna Jordan (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 1, 2004 | Series: Restaurant Guidebooks for Vegetarian and Vegan Diners

Gibbs Smith, Publisher, offers two new installments in our groundbreaking new series of restaurant guidebooks for vegetarian and vegan diners. VegOutTM vegetarian guide books virtually eliminate the difficulty of finding vegetarian and vegan offerings in a world of shish-kabob street vendors and hot dog hawkers. VegOutTM vegetarian guide books provide a rating for each restaurant, along with price, cuisine, location, and contact information, plus must-know details about each venue's culinary offerings. And VegOutTM vegetarian guidebooks aren't just for vegetarian and vegan diners-anyone seeking healthy, nutritious fare will find these guides indispensable! Next up, two cities that feature some of the best healthy cuisine America has to offer-New York City and San Francisco. VegOutTM Vegetarian Guide to New York City focuses on the hundreds of restaurants, greenmarkets, and cafes in New York City, from Harlem to Queens and everything in between. Also new this season is VegOutTM Vegetarian Guide to San Francisco & Northern California, serving vegetarian and vegan diners in the heart of San Francisco as well as the picturesque communities of Northern California. VegOut is a registered trademark of Gibbs Smith, Publisher.

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VegOut: Vegetarian Guide to San Francisco Bay Area includes: o Restaurant reviews and ratings o Suggested menu items o Addresses and hours o Delivery services o Green grocers o Farmers' markets o Websites o Pull-out locator map From the see-and-be-seen cafes to those wonderful back-alley finds, VegOut! guides you to all the best spots for excellent fare at excellent prices. So, relax, kick back, and veg out! www.vegoutguide.com

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Product Details

• Paperback: 168 pages
• Publisher: Gibbs Smith, Publisher; First Edition edition (July 1, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 158685383X
• ISBN-13: 978-1586853839
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 3.7 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,640,620 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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19 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Not worth your time or money, January 31, 2005

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Peter Kosar "A Bay Area Vegetarian" - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Veg Out Vegetarian Guide to San Francisco Bay Area (Restaurant Guidebooks for Vegetarian and Vegan Diners) (Paperback)

How can you write a guide to vegetarian dining when you are hostile and condescending to vegetarians? This book is just a sloppy hatchet job from someone who doesn't appreciate anything about vegetarian dining. I got this guide as a birthday gift. As a Bay Area vegetarian I have eaten at many of the restaurants listed in the guide, and I was really dismayed and shocked to read the reviews. I couldn't even recognize my favorite places. If I didn't know better, I'd never even bother to try many of the restaurants listed. The review of Slice of Life in Sebastopol makes it sound so horrible that I went there just to judge for myself. Surprise, surprise -- I found it to be a fun place where they have good food. Don't bother with this guide -- save your money and have a nice meal at one of the Bay Area's fine vegetarian restaurants.

16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Not very useful, June 10, 2005

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Joe Wendell - See all my reviews

This review is from: Veg Out Vegetarian Guide to San Francisco Bay Area (Restaurant Guidebooks for Vegetarian and Vegan Diners) (Paperback)

This book is not very useful to vegans, at least compared to a quick Google search. As a vegan, some of the questions I would have liked to have seen answered in the restaurant reviews are: Is the breading on dish x at restaurant y vegan? Are there vegan dessert shops in the Bay Area? Is there a good cheeseless pizza, or a good pizza with vegan cheese, available at restaurant z? Can I find vegan dim sum in Chinatown? These types of questions go completely or sporadically unanswered in this book. In the introduction, the author states she is not a vegetarian, and perhaps these omissions are explained by her lack of a vegetarian perspective. Additionally, vegans may get skewed ideas on where the easiest and most interesting places for them to eat are since the vegetarian restaurants tend to get poorer ratings than the non-vegetarian restaurants with several vegetarian options and fewer, if any, vegan options. The book does seem to provide a decent list of venues suitable for lacto-ovo vegetarians dining with omnivores, but that information is probably not hard to come by for free elsewhere.

However, the restaurant location map in the back is very handy for planning where to eat during walking trips.

In summary, this book is not written from a vegetarian perspective, and particularly if you are a vegan, a Google search will quickly lead you to more useful information.

16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Veg Out is out of touch, December 19, 2004

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Veg4Life (San Francisco Bay Area, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Veg Out Vegetarian Guide to San Francisco Bay Area (Restaurant Guidebooks for Vegetarian and Vegan Diners) (Paperback)

As someone who lives in the SF Bay Area, and frequented many of the restaurants reviewed in this guide, I was disappointed. While everyone has different tastes in foods, I particularly disagreed with her review of Shangri-La which ridiculed the menu and its grammar. Not everyone had the opportunity to grow up in the USA. Additionally, perhaps it is the nature of publishing or the dynamic flow of the restaurant business, but this guide is already out of date.