Mark Mathew Braunstein
Mark Mathew Braunstein
vegan vegetarianism, sprouts & microgreens, medical marijuana
VEGAN & VEGETARIAN
Restaurant Guide
to Eastern Connecticut
(east of the Quinnipiac & Connecticut Rivers)
dedicated to keeping the RANT in restauRANT
This is a restaurant guide to vegan and vegetarian options in carnivorous restaurants and to actual vegan and vegetarian restaurants in eastern Connecticut as far west as New Haven and Hartford. These are not merely short, snarky ratings, instead these are full-length and in-depth reviews dedicated to keeping the RANT in restauRANT.
This downloadable directory of 40 pages in intended to provide a compact guide to vegheads, while asking them to forgive my own rhetoric that ranges from hyperbole to calumny.
VEGAN & VEGETARIAN Restaurant Options in Connecticut
EASTERN HALF of the state, mostly east of the Quinnipiac & Connecticut Rivers, while also including Middletown, Hartford, and New Haven
Keeping the RANT in RestauRANT
(41-page PDF, 680K)
Updated July 2023
Published on the web also, but usually in shorter versions,
at: HappyCow.net where you must click "Photos & Reviews,"
while as one single document it is published HERE.
While we're here, I include eulogies for my dearly beloved but now deceased all-vegan or all-vegetarian restaurants: Ahimsa Restaurant in New Haven, Kong Foo Restaurant in Norwich, Kate's Cafe in Mystic, 21 Oak in Manchester, Six Main in Chester and Cafe Live (now Cafe Dead) in Willimantic, among many others. All vegetarian or all vegan, no wonder they withered and died in the vast nutritional wasteland of eastern CT.
From among the still living in eastern CT, the PDF lists and reviews these and few more not listed :
Branford:
Darbar India – Carnivore but Vegetarian-Friendly
Danielson:
Heirloom Food Company – almost all-Vegetarian, very Vegan-Friendly
Griswold:
Mei's Kitchen -- Carnivore but Veg-Friendly
Groton:
Chipolte – Carnivore
Mirch Masala – Carnivore
Thai Sawasdee – Carnivore
Pokemoto – Carnivore but very Veg-Friendly
Guilford:
Foodworks (food store) -- Carnivore but Veg-Friendly
Shoreline Diner & Vegetarian Enclave – Carnivore but separate small Vegan menu
Three Girls Vegan Creamery – Vegan
Hartford
Fire-N-Spice Restaurant – Vegan
Lion's Den "Vegetarian" Restaurant -- almost all-Vegetarian
Madison:
Life Bowl – Vegetarian
Middletown:
It’s Only Natural (ION) – Vegan
Udupi Bhavan – Vegetaran
Mystic:
Karma Kitchen Mystic – almost Vegetarian
Pizzetta – Carnivore but separate Vegan menu
S & P Oyster Company – Carnivore but separate small Vegan menu
Mystic Salad Co. – Carnivore but very Veg-Friendly
New Haven:
Claire’s Cornercopia – Vegetarian
Edge of the Woods – Vegetarian
Ninth Square Market Caribbean Style – Vegan
New London:
Fiddleheads Foods Coop – Carnivore but Veg-Friendly
Jasmine Thai – Carnivore
Saeed’s – Carnivore
The Social Bar + Kitchen – Carnivore but allegedly Veg-Friendly
Spice Palette – Carnivore but very Vegan-Friendly with Vegan & Vegetarian side menus
Old Saybrook:
Foodworks (food store) -- Carnivore but Veg-Friendly
Shakahari – Vegetarian
Stonington:
Stonington Village Farmers Market – Carnivore but Veg-Friendly
Storrs / Mansfield:
Chang’s Garden – Carnivore but Vegan-Friendly
Fenton River Grill – Carnivore but Vegan-Friendly
Westbrook:
Shayna B's by the Sea – Vegan
Willimantic:
Willimantic Food Coop – Carnivore but Veg-Friendly
Everywhere:
Wendy's – Carnivore but offers a Vegan (and wholesome!) Baked Potato