When I adopted a vegan diet in 2001, there wasn’t much in the way of vegan food or activities in the Montclair, NJ area. (Yes, there is such a thing as vegan activities.) If I wanted to eat a good veg restaurant, I would have to rely on New Jersey Transit to whisk me over the Hudson River into New York City. If I wanted to attend a vegan cooking class I would have to pay quite a pricy fee to do so at Natural Gourmet Institute, the only place in the area that really offered plant-based cooking classes. If I wanted to attend a talk on vegan cooking or have a cookbook signed by a notable author, I would have to trek to a rinky-dink bookstore in the East Village. Things have definitely changed with time and Montclair is becoming quite the vegan place to be.
Read MoreMeatless Monday at Goldie's In Asbury Park
Redefining vegan cuisine to such a degree that guests will have no need to define or label it beyond calling it purely great food, Smith, a hospitality, marketing and design firm enlivening Asbury Park, recently announcee the opening of Goldie’s. With an incredible menu, awe-inspiring design and innovative cocktails – it is the very first vegan restaurants with a liquor license in New Jersey – Goldie’s is soon to attract diners from all over, vegans or non-vegans alike.
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