Vegan Diner Food: No Longer an Oxymoron at Vej Naturals

Diner food is delicious. It's generally oozing with butter and grease, cheese and saccharine imitation maple syrup. These things taste good. However, many eaters these days are no longer ignorant enough of what goes into this food (the artery-clogging trans fats, the environment-destroying factory farmed meats) to partake in true, unadulterated diner-induced bliss. It may be simpler in a karmic way to live without consuming animal products (denial takes a lot of energy to maintain) but in a purely sensual way, it kinda sucks to live without bacon.

However, this week Vej Naturals, Malden's only vegan restaurant, is allowing veggie folks to have their raw cacao cake and eat it too. They're hosting "Bob's Diner Night" this Wednesday, April 29, complete with "diner" drinks (frappes, perhaps?) and 50s music from 5:00 to 7:30 pm. The meal is all you can eat for $20, or order a la carte. The menu looks diner-licious:

Chili Cheez Fries - $7.00
Tempeh Sloppy Joes - $8.00
Country Fried Seitan with Hash Browns and Gravy - $12.00
Mac n Cheez - $10.00
Franks and Beans - $10.00
Whoopie Pies - $4.00
Apple Pie ala Mode - $4.00
Chocolate or Strawberry Milkshake - $3.00

Reservations recommended: call (781) 388-0990 or email info@vejnaturals.com.

Vej Naturals is located at 264 Washington Street in Malden, MA and is accessible from the Orange Line. Directions from Vej Naturals' website: "Take the orange line outbound to Oak Grove, which is the last stop. Exit at Washington Street. When facing Washington Street, Vej is across the street from the exit and a bit to the left. We are in a white building, at 264 Washington Street."

Photo by mattsabo17 via Creative Commons license.