10 restaurants to take your vegetarian friends
Your non-meat-eating pals deserve to fill up on more than sides and salads
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You’ve taken your vegetarian friend out to eat, and they swear they’ll find something on the menu no matter where you go: fries, a side salad, the dreaded veggie plate. Meanwhile, you’re ready to go in on your steak, chicken, burger, or other carnivorous entrée. You’re a good friend, so you feel bad. No one deserves to forge a meal from a small selection of meat-free sides. We feel your pain. But we feel your friend’s pain more. So here are 10 places to take the non-meat eaters in your life for a real meal — no salad required.
Desta Ethiopian Kitchen
All the food here is beautifully presented. Desta, which means “happiness” in Amharic, serves modern Ethiopian cuisine in a cozy atmosphere. Try the signature tibs (meat sautéed in spiced olive oil with onions, tomatoes, and peppers) with authentic injera, or go early for an intercontinental breakfa...
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Gu’s Dumplings
The launch of Gu’s Dumplings brings an abbreviated, dumpling-and-street-food-centric version of the former Buford Highway Sichuan restaurant to Inman Park. In addition to the Bistro’s signature pork dumplings, Gu’s Dumplings will have chicken- and vegetable-filled varieties, too. There will be other...
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Julianna’s Coffee & Crepes
Sweet and savory crepes, filled with Georgia-grown ingredients, served in a vintage setting in Inman Park.
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Soul Vegetarian No. 2
Black-owned Business
One of the restaurants owned by the Kingdom Enterprises, a business run by African Hebrew Israelites of Jerusalem. Offers both vegetable-laden salads as well as plenty of faux meat dishes such as tofu-based barbecue and the specialty roasted gluten loaf called the Kalebone.
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Sufi’s Kitchen
Sufi’s menu has let the world of Persian flavors take a step toward the mainstream in Atlanta. Flanked by the dining room’s deep red brocade walls and paintings of whirling dervishes, and seated under a ceiling of white fabric, you might encounter some form of culinary enlightenment. The menu has a ...
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True Food Kitchen
Healthy – but tasty – cuisine in the heart of Buckhead at Lenox Square Mall. True Food offers a variety of vegetarian, vegan, and gluten free options while remaining diverse in their menu and experimental with their food and cocktails.
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