San Francisco Veg Society Gathers at Nick's on Grand

This is the best picture I took at the San Francisco Veg Society's dinner last night at Nick's on Grand in South San Francisco.  Here you see Christie and Christa, the president of the SFVS and a new board member, respectively.

But you can see that there was a good turnout--about 25 people--at a place that wasn't exactly centrally located or close to good public transportation.

It Pays to Double-Check email!

I rejoined the San Francisco Veg Society--an organization worthy of more than $20 (senior) membership, but I thought my plea for a ride to their meeting tonight at 8:00 had gone unacknowledged.

I wanted to describe the "invitation" to Nicks on Grand, so I went back to my email and did a search for San Francisco Veg Society and saw that the president, Christy Griffin, had answered my plea yesterday!  I just hadn't seen it.

So here's the spiel:

All current SFVS members are invited to our annual members meeting this Monday, January 27. Please join us to discuss our upcoming plans for 2020. The meeting will be at 8:00 pm at Nick’s on Grand at 223 Grand Ave. in South San Francisco. Dinner will be provided by SFVS. Please RSVP by replying to this email.  Seating is limited and seats will be reserved on a first come first served basis.

Apologies for the short notice on the annual meeting. We really wanted to make sure that the food this year was something special, and when this opportunity came up, we had to jump at it! Nicks on Grand offers an all vegan menu of Fillipino and American cuisine. Many of their meat alternatives are house made and gluten-free options are available. 

I liked it when the meeting was mid-day at Cybelle's, where there's an extensive vegan menu and public transportation to get there.   I don't usually attend meetings that begin at 8:00 PM. because as the saying goes, if seventy is the new fifty, 9 is the new midnight.


But I guess that interest in the new restaurant, Nick's in South San Francisco, was the selling point, and I'm grateful for the ride!

Vegan Choices at The Slanted Door

Just returned from celebrating a friend's 80th birthday with her at The Slanted Door.  She thought my vegan cellophane noodles were better than her crab cellophane dish, but we both ate well.

We started with the vegetarian spring rolls, which they thought were also vegan.  We also had dumplings before our main dish, the cellophane noodes.  It was a cool, drizzly day, so we enjoyed our chrysanthmum tea, and in spite of the cold outdoors, I enjoyed the pear sorbet, the only dessert that's vegan.

yuba cellophane noodles hodo beanery "yuba noodles," roasted chili, sweet peppers, maeko mushroom

 Vegetarian spring rolls, tofu, shitake, cabbage, mint, peanut sauce
Crispy vegetarian imperial rolls, tofu, taro root, babbage, vermicelli noodle, roasted pear

Vegetarian banh bot loc, mung bean tapioca dumplings, scallion oil, thai chili soy sauce
Vegetarian vietnamese crepe, tofu, cabbage, tree ear mushroom
diakon rice cakes, shitake mushroom, shallot, sweet chili soy

Wild white chrysantemum tea (herbal)