*Fresh Restaurant Review
By Thomas Whitmore
"My excursion to Fresh began on a cold winter morning with the hopes of rekindling my frozen taste buds. As we arrived on the doorstep, I took notice of the countless neighbouring meat market and knick-knack stores littering this section of Bloor Street. Could this possibly be the location of a gourmet vegan restaurant, nestled in among vendors of fish heads and questionable discount clothing, like a jewel hidden among stones?"

An Interview with Galina: Vegetarian Food in St. Petersburg, Russia
An Interview by Melanie Wilson
"Galina works in a beautiful place - an organic (mostly) vegetarian café in Saint Petersburg, Russia. The center's aim is to help Russians go vegetarian, to learn about being healthy without meat. The café is the only organic vegetarian eatery in Saint Petersburg, the center of Russian culture. They offer a special course for pregnant women teaching them how to have a healthy vegetarian pregnancy and raise healthy vegetarian children..."

Mother's Café & Garden
By Melanie Wilson
"If you're a vegetarian in Austin, everyone knows there's one place you can't miss: Mother's Café & Garden. When I go out to eat, I'm so used to scanning the menu and quickly picking out the one or two things I can have as a vegan, or worse, the one thing I can have after I ask them to remove all the offending foodstuffs, that I was overwhelmed by this menu!"

*Daily Juice
By Melanie Wilson
"This past summer (2004), I was in Austin, TX while traveling around the state doing a speaking tour with my vegetarianbaby.com partner, Lucy Watkins. We knew Austin would provide us with a wealth of veggie places to dine, but we were surprised to find this little hole-in-the-wall place. Driving down the street a sign jumped out at us: "VEGAN ICE CREAM"! We made a U-turn..."

*Roxanne's Raw
By Melanie Wilson
"I was so very sad to hear that Roxanne's Raw, the four-star, gourmet, raw food restaurant which holds my memories for the finest raw eating experience - in fact, one of the best eating experiences I've ever had, period - closed down recently. I am only thankful that I had the chance to dine there once..."

*The Tree of Life Café
By Anna Hays
"The Tree of Life café is more than just a raw food restaurant. It acts as a central point of communion for staff members, guests, and visitors to spend time together, enjoy amazing food, laugh, smile and feel their true essence. It is a place where people gather to connect, share with each other, and nourish the body, mind and soul with nutrient dense, completely live, vegan food..."

Millennium Restaurant
By Melanie Wilson
"Last summer (2003), I traveled to San Francisco for the biannual La Leche League International conference. The hotel was situated downtown, and as luck would have it, was only about two blocks from the Millennium Restaurant, a renowned vegan gourmet restaurant..."