Brooklyn

Avant Garden, an upscale vegan restaurant located in New York City’s East Village, will be opening a second location in the hip Brooklyn neighborhood of Williamsburg. Reported by Eater NY, the new location will feature a menu helmed by chef Tony Mongeluzzi, who has been acting as executive chef at the flagship Manhattan location for […]

A new vegan restaurant just moved into Brooklyn, one of New York City’s up-and-coming restaurant hubs. But instead of following the neighborhood’s hipster dining scene and charging $10 for a green juice or $16 for a salad, Sol Sips is making plant-based food accessible to everyone. Twenty-one-year-old Francesca “Sol” Chaney opened her new vegan venture […]

Brooklyn, New York, has a unique new vegan brand to boast about: RIND Vegan Affineur. Born through a collaboration between two vegan serial entrepreneurs, this artisanal vegan cheese is about to disrupt the dairy and plant-based cheese markets. Founders Dina DiCenso and Joshua Katcher developed the idea for RIND when they realized – despite the booming […]

Social justice activist, and journalist, Shaun King, has made the switch to a vegan diet according to his Facebook page. King, who is the Senior Justice Writer for the New York Daily News, informed his huge following of 1.7 million people on 5th January that it was his fourth day being vegan. He followed this […]

‘Meatless Mondays’ will be implemented at 15 schools in Brooklyn next year. Five public schools in the city already serve vegetarian meals every day of the week. Children at the school collectively decided that they wanted to “live healthier” and do something “good for the earth”. In a visit to P.S. 1 in Sunset Park, […]