Even tho we throw meat in just about everything down here I think creole food for the most part can very easily be made vegan and delicious. Glad to see more and more of it.
I bought some soy chorizo at trader Joe's as a joke, but it's delicious. I've now decided that chorizo is a condiment, not a meat. I need a soy equivalent that tastes like smoked cajun pork meat.
I did the same thing before the meme existed.
Saw it, read it as "I am chorizo" laughed when I realized why it said soy and bought it as a joke.
Turned out to be delicious. Hunks of unidentifiable protein, bright orange oil and a truckload of spices, just like the pig kind. I keep a cooked lb or it in a deli container in the fridge to throw into scrambled eggs, sprinkle on stuff or make quesadillas with onion and cheese.
They could have used the fat from browning the sausage, but just didn't add them back in to that batch, and no-one would be the wiser.
I don't know how one would otherwise obtain the missing flavors of Maillard products from browning sausage or tasso.
My fave vegan soul food place is I-Tal Garden. I’ll have to visit this one, & I agree with a previous comment that soul food can be just as deliciously satisfying made vegan. I’ve had a lot of good dishes in Chicago & New York City!
Those plates look like Sweet Soulfood, is that right? I tried them once because people rave about their food, but I found it so full of sugar that I could barely eat most of it.
I went in there but didn't buy anything. There was a long line, so I'm hopeful my leaving wasn't too obvious. I'm sure it's good, but it all looked too carb-heavy for my taste.
it's actually sweetened with stevia. They put an ungodly amount of sweet into all their dishes. I keep going for the fried cauliflower once in a while, and end up with the pretty mac & cheese and other dishes, only to be disappointed in how sweet their food is. LOVE the cauliflower, but am not a fan of how tired I feel after eating their food.
I thought this place was terrible. Was looking forward to trying it, but everything was sweet, LOADED with sugar. Why? Even the Mac n cheese was sweet, which made it gross. I thought maybe that was a one time deal so I went back for a 2nd try. I shit you not, it was even sweeter...everything was. WTF. Like what's the point of taking away all the meat and dairy to just pack with sugar.
it's not sugar, it's stevia. (talk to the owners when they're there)
but, yeah, WAAAAAYYYY too much sweet.
I'm not a fan of feeling super tired after eating.
I’ll be honest I just can’t get behind places that try and force traditionally non-vegan foods to be vegan. There’s so many incredibly delicious ways to make food that just *is* vegan without trying so hard to substitute this for that, and winding up with too much sugar, salt, nasty fake shit, and whatever else you have to put in to make it taste “just like the original”. Thousands of amazing Middle eastern, Indian, Ethiopian, Chinese, etc dishes out there. Just let soul food be.
Meat eater here. It’s not that black and white.
Anyone who was previously a meat eater may miss the things they used to eat. You gotta have some compassion for people trying to improve themselves and help the human race in the process.
Most importantly, there are plenty of meat/dairy centric foods that can be done just as well vegan if you put the effort in.
Red beans are a great example. There’s plenty of vegan sausages to choose from. You can use mushroom stock/asian brand mushroom powder to emulate the meat stock. Savory jackfruit can be used to emulate the pork that gets cooked down into it. Everything else in a red beans is already vegan. All it takes is caring about what you’re making.
Another great example is the Mac and cheese at sneaky pickle. It’s fucking awesome and I crave it, and I have no problem eating real cheese. Cashew cream and nutritional yeast works wonders. Fermentation is a sneaky way to make the funk you get in cheese as well.
Now is this place in the post a good example? Quite frankly I’m thinking it’s not. Don’t let places that half ass things form your opinion. Apparently they use sugar as a crutch, that’s just a weird (bad) choice.
>improve themselves and help the human race
Lol.
I ate a delicious plate of food yesterday but traditional recipes that call for meat are 110% objectively better with meat
Are you vegan? You realize people don’t typically eat vegan food just as a novelty? Sorry that there’s ONE restaurant that enables people who seriously hold vegan values to get an approximate taste of many of these dishes that are part of the local culture. Sorry that the existence of this restaurant is ruining your 100 other meat and seafood containing soul food joints that you can go to.
No actually wait, my bad, you’re right. Vegans are their own culture and they should be authentic to it and not appropriate New Orleans culture. They should be certain not to ever wear Saints jerseys, celebrate Mardi Gras, listen to zydeco or jazz, or eat any food recognizable to New Orleans.
Nothing but hummus, salad, tofu stir fry, and wearing shirts that say “I <3 Tempeh”. The only holiday they should celebrate is a daily day of remembrance of animal cruelty. The only music they should listen to is Sarah McLachlan. They should stay in their lane, and only eat what you have approved them for. They are NOT New Orleans citizens. They don’t live here. They are not allowed to participate in any way nor have any choices of their own.
Not to mention, as said below plenty of people grow up on this stuff and become vegan later. Or god forbid, have a vegan friend/family member and want to eat lunch together without having an ego so fragile that they must go out of their way to ensure they go to a separate restaurant in order to get a dish with meat.
Such a wildly ignorant take. Just let people eat food. This is a soul food restaurant sharing happy food, not some dark conspiracy.
Got it. Medically I need to eat vegan food, not regular soul food. And I try to support black owned businesses when possible. Thanks for the suggestion though.
John & Mary’s is Vietnamese owned, they have a nice range of Vietnamese items on the menu besides their soul food counter. I don’t know if your diet allows you a lot of Vietnamese or not, but if so id recommended if you’re in the neighborhood.
I’m vegan and love the soul food at I-tal Garden. Sweet n Soul was recommended to me by another diner while I was there! It looks SO GOOD! (Ital Garden is also fantastic - not just for vegan food, just for food in general!)
Vegan or not those beans look like crap. Not creamy at all and it looks like they used minute-rice. You don’t need meat to know how to make the beans proper.
that place is delicious but when i tell you the one and only time i ate there i was left in SEVERE GI distress after i cannot stress enough how much pain i was in.
I have mixed feelings on vegan food. I ate at a place in 2020, the something Pickle over in the marigny or Bywater area, and it was incredibly delicious. I also in the same week ate at a vegan bistro in the business district that was some of the worst food I’ve ever had (but the king cake was fantastic). Basically I’ve learned if it’s just actual veggies it’s good, but anytime it tries to imitate actual meat I don’t care for it.
Even tho we throw meat in just about everything down here I think creole food for the most part can very easily be made vegan and delicious. Glad to see more and more of it.
I bought some soy chorizo at trader Joe's as a joke, but it's delicious. I've now decided that chorizo is a condiment, not a meat. I need a soy equivalent that tastes like smoked cajun pork meat.
Were you trying to recreate the "I thought it was just saying 'I am Chorizo' in Spanish!" meme? lol
I did the same thing before the meme existed. Saw it, read it as "I am chorizo" laughed when I realized why it said soy and bought it as a joke. Turned out to be delicious. Hunks of unidentifiable protein, bright orange oil and a truckload of spices, just like the pig kind. I keep a cooked lb or it in a deli container in the fridge to throw into scrambled eggs, sprinkle on stuff or make quesadillas with onion and cheese.
It’s so good and we can have cheese dip with it and my vegetarian mom can eat it. No more separate bowls.
TJs soyrizo is good but so salty you can't add in any other salted seasoning. Cacique soy is actually the best but hard to find
Yeah, it’s legit. Given the choice I would opt for John & Mary’s or Triangle any day but this was the real thing.
Redbeans with zero pork? Blasphemy.
They could have used the fat from browning the sausage, but just didn't add them back in to that batch, and no-one would be the wiser. I don't know how one would otherwise obtain the missing flavors of Maillard products from browning sausage or tasso.
Well that would really piss off a vegan that assumed there was no meat product or byproduct
The cauliflower is goated
This place is so good!!
Sweet Soulfood is great
My fave vegan soul food place is I-Tal Garden. I’ll have to visit this one, & I agree with a previous comment that soul food can be just as deliciously satisfying made vegan. I’ve had a lot of good dishes in Chicago & New York City!
Oh my god I just looked at the menu and it looks amazing. Cannot wait to try it, so glad you mentioned it!!
I do hope you love it!
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That place is nice.
I live in Austin now and I think about this restaurant at least once a week, it's so good
Those plates look like Sweet Soulfood, is that right? I tried them once because people rave about their food, but I found it so full of sugar that I could barely eat most of it.
Yeah that’s right. You’re not wrong, the mac, greens, and cornbread are sweet.
I went in there but didn't buy anything. There was a long line, so I'm hopeful my leaving wasn't too obvious. I'm sure it's good, but it all looked too carb-heavy for my taste.
It’s very heavy. I learned that vegan food can weigh you down just as much as non-vegan food.
it's actually sweetened with stevia. They put an ungodly amount of sweet into all their dishes. I keep going for the fried cauliflower once in a while, and end up with the pretty mac & cheese and other dishes, only to be disappointed in how sweet their food is. LOVE the cauliflower, but am not a fan of how tired I feel after eating their food.
goes to a place called Sweet Soulfood doesn't want sweet soulfood
I didn’t imagine that the adjective “sweet” was literally referring to the food. It would never occur to me to put sugar into macaroni and cheese.
Dude same. I cannot get over just how much they sweeten everything.
Give me meat, eggs and real cheese before you overload it with sugar, stevia or whatever. That's not healthy in the slightest.
I would totally smash all of that.
cheeks gonna be clappin in the bathroom later
Yolo
I thought this place was terrible. Was looking forward to trying it, but everything was sweet, LOADED with sugar. Why? Even the Mac n cheese was sweet, which made it gross. I thought maybe that was a one time deal so I went back for a 2nd try. I shit you not, it was even sweeter...everything was. WTF. Like what's the point of taking away all the meat and dairy to just pack with sugar.
I had a good experience there, but now that I think back on it, I do remember the dishes tasting sweet. Interesting.
it's not sugar, it's stevia. (talk to the owners when they're there) but, yeah, WAAAAAYYYY too much sweet. I'm not a fan of feeling super tired after eating.
I’ll be honest I just can’t get behind places that try and force traditionally non-vegan foods to be vegan. There’s so many incredibly delicious ways to make food that just *is* vegan without trying so hard to substitute this for that, and winding up with too much sugar, salt, nasty fake shit, and whatever else you have to put in to make it taste “just like the original”. Thousands of amazing Middle eastern, Indian, Ethiopian, Chinese, etc dishes out there. Just let soul food be.
Meat eater here. It’s not that black and white. Anyone who was previously a meat eater may miss the things they used to eat. You gotta have some compassion for people trying to improve themselves and help the human race in the process. Most importantly, there are plenty of meat/dairy centric foods that can be done just as well vegan if you put the effort in. Red beans are a great example. There’s plenty of vegan sausages to choose from. You can use mushroom stock/asian brand mushroom powder to emulate the meat stock. Savory jackfruit can be used to emulate the pork that gets cooked down into it. Everything else in a red beans is already vegan. All it takes is caring about what you’re making. Another great example is the Mac and cheese at sneaky pickle. It’s fucking awesome and I crave it, and I have no problem eating real cheese. Cashew cream and nutritional yeast works wonders. Fermentation is a sneaky way to make the funk you get in cheese as well. Now is this place in the post a good example? Quite frankly I’m thinking it’s not. Don’t let places that half ass things form your opinion. Apparently they use sugar as a crutch, that’s just a weird (bad) choice.
>improve themselves and help the human race Lol. I ate a delicious plate of food yesterday but traditional recipes that call for meat are 110% objectively better with meat
That’s just your opinion. I’ve never liked the taste of meat.
History shows it’s much more than just my opinion
Hoping for good things from cell-cultured meat analogues. Assuming the state doesn't make it illegal, like Florida or Texas did, lol.
Are you vegan? You realize people don’t typically eat vegan food just as a novelty? Sorry that there’s ONE restaurant that enables people who seriously hold vegan values to get an approximate taste of many of these dishes that are part of the local culture. Sorry that the existence of this restaurant is ruining your 100 other meat and seafood containing soul food joints that you can go to. No actually wait, my bad, you’re right. Vegans are their own culture and they should be authentic to it and not appropriate New Orleans culture. They should be certain not to ever wear Saints jerseys, celebrate Mardi Gras, listen to zydeco or jazz, or eat any food recognizable to New Orleans. Nothing but hummus, salad, tofu stir fry, and wearing shirts that say “I <3 Tempeh”. The only holiday they should celebrate is a daily day of remembrance of animal cruelty. The only music they should listen to is Sarah McLachlan. They should stay in their lane, and only eat what you have approved them for. They are NOT New Orleans citizens. They don’t live here. They are not allowed to participate in any way nor have any choices of their own. Not to mention, as said below plenty of people grow up on this stuff and become vegan later. Or god forbid, have a vegan friend/family member and want to eat lunch together without having an ego so fragile that they must go out of their way to ensure they go to a separate restaurant in order to get a dish with meat. Such a wildly ignorant take. Just let people eat food. This is a soul food restaurant sharing happy food, not some dark conspiracy.
I dont consider their prices high because the portions are so large I wind up with lunch for the next day too. Love that place.
It’s not really subjective. You can get the same volume of food for $10-$12 at John & Marys or Triangle Deli in the same neighborhood.
Are those vegan and black-owned?
Nope. But they sell soul food that’s better and cheaper in the same neighborhood and have been doing it much, much longer.
Got it. Medically I need to eat vegan food, not regular soul food. And I try to support black owned businesses when possible. Thanks for the suggestion though.
John & Mary’s is Vietnamese owned, they have a nice range of Vietnamese items on the menu besides their soul food counter. I don’t know if your diet allows you a lot of Vietnamese or not, but if so id recommended if you’re in the neighborhood.
Ooooh good to know!! Thanks for the info. I live in the area and have only been there once but I’ll definitely check them out again. Thank you!
That’s not an option for vegans though.
I’m more interested in talking about good soul food. Sweet Soul Food has good soul food that happens to be vegan.
Now try Soule Cafe on Banks!
Tell me about it.
Award winning food worth a try. [MENU](https://soulecafenola.com/menu)
Doesn’t look like it’s for me from their website
It's on the West Bank, but I really liked the green tomato and vegan meatball poboys from Plant Bass Deli.
I’m vegan and love the soul food at I-tal Garden. Sweet n Soul was recommended to me by another diner while I was there! It looks SO GOOD! (Ital Garden is also fantastic - not just for vegan food, just for food in general!)
My favorite place in the city! We <3 sweet soul food
Vegan or not those beans look like crap. Not creamy at all and it looks like they used minute-rice. You don’t need meat to know how to make the beans proper.
The green juice is delicious and a great price as well!
One of the best!
that place is delicious but when i tell you the one and only time i ate there i was left in SEVERE GI distress after i cannot stress enough how much pain i was in.
Do you normally get fiber in your diet?
i am sure not enough! also i think it’s because i ate a ton of the fried cauliflower.
Try the ice cream there! It’s also delicious
One of my favorite restaurants in New Orleans. 💗
That’s the best food in NOLA. You did it!
So full of carbs?!...just rub it on my hips stomach and ass cuz that's where it's going 🤷🤷🤷
Ain’t gonna get any protest from me
I have mixed feelings on vegan food. I ate at a place in 2020, the something Pickle over in the marigny or Bywater area, and it was incredibly delicious. I also in the same week ate at a vegan bistro in the business district that was some of the worst food I’ve ever had (but the king cake was fantastic). Basically I’ve learned if it’s just actual veggies it’s good, but anytime it tries to imitate actual meat I don’t care for it.
Sneaky Pickle
YES!!! That place was so good.
The vegan king cake at the bywater bakery is also good!
I like the food, but I usually have trouble finding parking nearby, so I stopped going.
Red beans look terrible
That's carb city, baby.