波士顿素食餐馆

  • Grasshopper: 1 N. Beacon Street (intersect with Cambridge St.), Allston, (617) 254-8883; tasty vegetarian dishes at very reasonable price; one of my friends actually lamented at the foods after going to a vegetarian restaurant for the first time in his life: “I can not believe that vegetarian dishes can taste so good.”
  • Buddha’s Delight: two locations, 5 Beach Street (intersect with Washington St.), Chinatown, (617) 451-2395 and 404 Harvard Street (between Beacon and Commonwealth Ave.), Brookline, (617) 739-8830. Be ready to be “delighted” by the almost “bewildering number” of “inexpensive” Chinese and Vietnamese options (Zagat Survey)
  • Other Side Cafe: 407 Newbury Street (intersect with Mass. Ave.), Back Bay, (617) 536-9477. I have never been to this place, but according to Zagat, this alternative cafe provides a list of healthy veggie options, at fairly moderate price.
  • Sepal: 17 Nichols Avenue (Arlington St.), Watertown, (617) 924-5753; www.sepalrestaurant.com; The “dedicated” owner of this Watertown cafe reportedly “believes that good food will bring peace to the Middle East”. Place to venture the “vegetarian by way of Jerusalem” (Zagat Survey)
  • Veggie Planet: Club Passim, 47 Palmer St. (Church St.), Cambridge, (617) 661-1513; www.veggieplanet.net; “a Harvard Square vegetarian’s default” (Zagat Survey)

If you are invited to a non-vegetarian restaurant (e.g. meeting friends), the usual we do is just ask the chef to hold the meat, and the results are always just as delicious.