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Eating Plant-Based in Columbus – 5 Vegan Restaurant Highlights
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Whether you’re vegan, vegetarian, or simply trying to incorporate more plant-based foods into your diet, Columbus has lots of options to meet your needs. This article will highlight a variety of vegan restaurants in the area that you can check out.
Tastemaker: Portia Yiamouyiannis, owner and chef, Portia's Cafe
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A meal at Portia's Cafe inevitably becomes a game of How Did She Do That. Vegan chef Portia Yiamouyiannis, whose mastery of coaxing familiar flavors from raw ingredients-rich cashew cheesecake, spicy kelp noodle pad Thai, creamy veggie pate disguised as tuna-has caught the attention of vegans and omnivores alike since she opened her bright Clintonville eatery in 2013.
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Restaurant Review: Portia’s Cafe
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Portia’s Café is the perfect place to take your most neurotic control-freak-friends. It’s organic, vegan, gluten-free, non-GMO, plus it serves lots of stuff for raw-food-only-eaters. Portia’s accommodates every possible food fear –and it does so in a cute, fun way.
Portia’s Café: Café expands gluten-free offerings
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Portia’s Cafe: Creatively made vegan fare adheres to strict standards
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Seven Sloppy Sandwiches: The Health Nut
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Portia’s Cafe, a creative new vegan enclave, pleases carnivores, too
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Sweet Tooth: Veg Cake, Real Flavor
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