Wedding, monuments, art, yada yada yada. I think what most people reading this want to see is the food porn. If you want to see that other stuff too, it’s in my flickr account.
We landed Friday afternoon and after we got settled into the hotel, went out in search of food before meeting up with everyone at the Brickskeller. Teaism in Dupont Circle turned out to be one of the options in between the two, so that’s where we went. They had a few vegan options right off the menu. I got the bento box and Kevin got a seitan stir fry.
When the food came out, it looked small to me at first. Until I started eating. It was deceptively small looking food. Turned out to be really filling. The bento box had grilled veggies, edamame, sweet potatoes, brown rice and tofu. The grilled veggies and edamame were served cold. I liked that, but I know it might put off some people. Here are a couple of dark, blurry pics along with a middle finger for anyone that has a problem with that.
Saturday, we had certificates for breakfast at the hotel. Fruit, peanut butter and jelly sammiches, coffee, juice. Standard hotel stuff. We had lunch at Java Green. I try to get to Java Green every time I’m in DC. This particular day part of the proceeds went to Compassion Over Killing. Bonus! I felt a little carb heavy from breakfast, so I opted for the Chili “Chicken” Wrap and a live juice mix, I forget which one. The wrap turned out to be crazy hot. Someone got extra happy with the rooster sauce, I think. Whew! I like hot, but wow. I think Kevin’s sammich was “chicken” and “cheese” on a ciabatta roll.
I should have taken pics of our food at the wedding. We had cucumber and avocado sushi rolls and a tofu veggie stir fry that the made up for us special. It was really nice of them to cater to us like that.
Sunday morning we headed to Sticky Fingers for breakfast. We split a soft, fluffy and fresh cinnamon roll. Then Kevin had pancakes and I tried the grilled cheese made with Daiya. I had it on whole greain bread, so that makes it healthy, right? To me, Daiya has the tastiest vegan cheddar style cheese I’ve had yet. Plus it gets all melty like Teese does. Can’t wait until Cosmo’s has it in. Also, there’s a pizza chain with some Metro Atlanta locations that is going to start carrying Daiya.
Apparently most vegan friendly non-asian restaurants near us Sunday were closed. So we ended up at Pizzeria Paradiso. I think I liked it more than Kevin did. The brick oven did lovely things for the crust. They didn’t have any fake meaty toppings, so we went with basil, red onions and red bell peppers. I think they were using Follow Your Heart cheese. It couldn’t have been too bad. We ate it all.
For such a short trip, we definitely packed in a lot of sight-seeing and yummy vegan food. The best way to approach DC is to say that you’re coming back. Because there’s no way to do everything in one trip.