Why you’ll like Asheville if you’re a vegetarian.
May 19th, 2009 categories: Interesting Tidbits
Did you know that Asheville leads the nation as a vegetarian city? Asheville was named the No. 1 Best Vegetarian-friendly Small City in the United States by GoVeg.com a few years ago, based on its abundance of meat-free restaurants, coffee shops, bakeries and markets. Asheville is known as a health center, there are a lot of people concerned about the environment, a big arts community, and Asheville’s reputation as a vegetarian haven is the city’s restaurant scene.
Downtown Asheville has two vegetarian restaurants of note, Rosetta’s Kitchen . Rosetta Star, who opened Rosetta’s Kitchen in 2002, said it makes sense that Asheville is known as a vegetarian-friendly town. “One of the things that makes Asheville what it is, is sort of that questioning of the norm,” she said. “Asheville questions norms all over the place as a community, so it makes sense that food is one place that people would do that.” Opening in the basement of the YMCA in 1991, the Laughing Seed Cafe owner Joe Eckert says many of the restaurant’s patrons are not necessarily vegetarians but are interested in eating healthier as well as local and organic.
For the full story from the Asheville Citizen-Times, click here.
