vegan in Dallas, TX

On May 23, 2019May 29, 2019 By VictoriaIn Restaurant ReviewsLeave a comment

Here’s a brief review of Tiki Loco, a vegan cafe in Dallas, Texas that serves vegan tacos, nachos, coffee, beer, and baked goods. Check out their website and menu here.

We decided to go out for a late lunch / early dinner because we had plans to go to a figure painting class later that night and wanted to try out a new restaurant. I had been wanting to eat at Tiki Loco for awhile now, especially after seeing their posts on Instagram. We stopped in for a quick bite to eat and had such a great experience.

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After we ordered our food I enjoyed a local vegan cider while we waited. We visit the cidercade they brew at every once in a while and have a ton of fun playing arcade games and drinking cider. It’s been my go-to drink lately, especially the flavor Crackberry. Tiki Loco had a ton of other drinks to choose from, from juice to coffee, smoothies, and even shaved ice.

We ordered the House Original Ground Beef Nachos, the Citrus Chicken tacos, and the Pineapple Mango Sweet n’ Sour Pork tacos (all plant-based!). Everything was so delicious and so filling.

And then as we were leaving we picked up an oatmeal cookie that we couldn’t resist.

The food was absolutely delicious and we enjoyed the atmosphere and music they were playing. We haven’t tried a new vegan restaurant in awhile, and even though this was a far drive for us the food was amazing and we were so happy we stopped by. If you’re ever in Deep Ellum I highly recommend checking Tiki Loco out!

Top 10 Vegan Restaurants // Denton and Dallas – Fort Worth, TX

On May 2, 2019May 2, 2019 By VictoriaIn ReviewsLeave a comment

We go out to eat. A lot. My boyfriend and I are also vegan, so the places we can eat at are limited, but luckily we have tons of tasty options nearby. Here’s some of our favorite places that serve delicious vegan food around North Texas.

Denton:

Milpa Kitchen and Cantina

Milpa has an amazing vegan section on their menu! Last time we ordered from there we picked up the Al Pastor Vegano tacos and the Vegan Quesadillas for dinner. We’ve also eaten the enchiladas and the tamales, and everything was so delicious. This is some of the best Tex-Mex we’ve had, including non-vegan Tex-Mex.

For sushi there’s two places that we really like to go to pick up avocado and veggie rolls:

Blue Ginger Japanese Bistro

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Mr. Chopsticks

They have a few more options for vegans, such as the tofu sushi for an appetizer. I usually order avocado rolls and rice noodles on the side and drench the rice noodles in sriracha.

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There’s two pizza restaurants close-by that we also like to eat at:

J&J’s Pizza

Located on the Denton Square, J&J’s is a great place to pick up some vegan pizza. They have lots of veggie toppings, vegan cheese, and vegan “meat” toppings too!

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Mellow Mushroom

Mellow Mushroom is similar, but they have pretzels that you can also make vegan and hummus for an appetizer! Make sure you asl for no parmesan and no butter on the pretzels. I also like adding avocado to my pizza instead of cheese. They have a huge selection of vegan meats to add for toppings.

Seven Mile Cafe

This is a great place to get breakfast / brunch. They have tofu scramble and vegan cinnamon rolls that are amazing. The burgers and hashbrowns are delicious too.

OMG Donuts

They serve really tasty vegan breakfast burritos and donuts. We go here to pick up something for breakfast quite frequently since it’s so affordable.

Dallas / Fort Worth:

Spiral Diner (Locations in Fort Worth, Dallas, and Denton)

Spiral Diner is the restaurant we probably go to most often. They serve amazing vegan comfort food. I highly recommend getting the Buffalo Chik’n Nachos and the Beyond Burgers, but you can’t go wrong with anything on their menu. They also have specials every month, so definitely check them out if you’re ever in town!

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V-Eats

V-Eats is a fancy and modern vegan restaurant in Dallas. They have really tasty nachos for an appetizer and I loved the flatbread pizza. Our non-vegan friends and family love this place too!

Alamo Drafthouse (Dallas, Richardson, Denton, Irving, and Frisco)

They have amazing cauliflower wings, pizza with Daiya cheese, Beyond Meat Burgers, and much more on their vegan menu.

Reverie Bakeshop

Reverie Bakeshop has a nice selection of vegan baked goods, including kolaches, empanadas, quiches, cookies, cheesecakes, and more. I highly recommend eating breakfast here if you’re ever in Richardson.

Those are some of our favorite restaurants that serve vegan food. It ended up being 11 restaurants, but there’s so much delicious vegan food around Dallas!

Air Fryer Review // why I try to cook everything I can in our air fryer

On February 12, 2019February 12, 2019 By VictoriaIn Lifestyle, Reviews, Vegan ProductsLeave a comment

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My parents gifted us an air fryer for Christmas and we cook everything we can in it. I never want to put the oven on since it makes our apartment hot, but this doesn’t produce any heat and it cooks everything quickly and evenly. Here’s some of our favorite foods to throw in it:

1. Baked potatoes: Poke a few holes in a potato and throw it in the air fryer. We bake them at 400º (the highest temperature the air fryer can be set to) for 20 minutes and they turn out great.

2. Frozen burgers: (the one pictured is Hilary’s Veggie Burger) We just follow the recommended time for baking them in a conventional oven and set the temperature to 400º.

3. Frozen taquitos: We just follow the conventional oven directions on this one too.

4. Frozen hashbrowns / tater tots: 400º for 8-10 minutes.

We haven’t tried it yet but I’ve read air frying tofu is really good too.

Here’s an Amazon link to the one we have: Avalon Bay Air Fryer. It’s worked well for us so far. It’s a healthier way of “frying” food, plus it heats food up quickly without having to preheat. There are tons of air fryer recipes posted on Pinterest so check those out too!