If you RSVP yes, please commit to showing up.

We will be selecting and posting a venue for this month’s restaurant event shortly.

Some of our favorite veg-friendly places in the area, that you may enjoy checking out are: Café Gratitude (vegan), The Fix (vegan), Mud Pie Vegan Bakery and Cafe, Pirate’s Bone Burgers (vegan), Kind Food KC (vegan, N-KC), Waldo Pizza (vegan menu), Blue Koi Noodles & Dumplings (Cantonese style Chinese), Aladdin Cafe (Middle Eastern), Blue Sushi Sake Grill (lots of unique veggie rolls), Blue Nile (Ethiopian), Korma Sutra (Indian), Thailand Restaurant (Blue Springs), Spices Asian Restaurant (Thai), Seven Swans Crêperie (brick and mortar opening soon!), Nguyen Pho (veggie broth!), True Food Kitchen, and Fervere/Ibis Bakeries. Plus many other options in the area to explore.

Some popular Veg friendly chains to be aware of include: Planet Sub, Chipotle (Sofritas!), Qdoba, The Mixx, PF Changs, Ruby Tuesday (salad bar), Taco Bell (Ordering Fresco style easily makes many things vegan), Panera Bread/Saint Louis Bread Company (breads may not be strictly vegan), Noodles & Company, Pei Wei Asian Diner, Subway, among others….

If you’re new to a particular type of food and interested in ordering it veg*n, be sure to ask or research what to substitute for or order it without…; for example: Thai food often has fish sauce, egg, or oyster sauce, Waldo pizza has soy cheese–which isn’t vegan–see their vegan menu–many pizza places have vegan cheeses now, Vietnamese food frequently uses fish sauce–you can often substitute peanut sauce, Mexican food may have lard in their beans/tortillas–chicken stock in their rice or dairy in their guacamole, and Indian food frequently has ghee or butter.

…please check back, details will be posted here.

Please – *Update your RSVP* if anything changes so restaurants will continue to kindly accommodate our group!!!

We keep our events free so everyone is able to participate. Consider donating a few dollars to help our volunteers cover our Meetup site costs. Contribute online (https://secure.meetup.com/vegetarian-14/contribute/) or in person.