Consciousfork
Valley Table Staff
The name of this café invokes the idea of making a conscious decision at the proverbial fork in the road. That’s just what owner Kim Gabelmann had to do some
Vegan in the Valley
Commisary!
Valley Table Staff
New Paltz residents are lucky: They can see double right in the heart of the village. Lagusta’s Luscious, opened in 2011 at 25 North Front Street, is where Lagusta Yearwood’s
Wildflower Café
Valley Table Staff
BILLED AS “Red Hook’s first burger bar,” WildFlower Café serves traditional burger bar fare—minus the meat and dairy. On the other hand, you can adopt a stray kitten after lunch. The
Pure City
Valley Table Staff
THE BUSINESS DISTRICT of tiny Pine Bush is, to say the least, compact. It also has been home to Pure City—a thriving, award-winning, vegan Asian restaurant—for 15 years. With Asian art and
Karma Road
Valley Table Staff
Jenn and Seth Branitz arrived in New Paltz with their two baby sons in the dead of winter of 2007. Both from Long Island and both experienced in the food
Good Choice Kitchen Vegan Café and Culinary Center
Valley Table Staff
When Good Choice Kitchen opened in early 2017, it was the culmination of years of planning. Owner/chef Laurie Gershgorn envisioned not just a dine-in café, but a multiuse culinary center
The Garden Café
Nava Atlas
“Working with a plant-based menu is clean, kind and creative,” says Lea Haas. So when she bought Garden Café on the Green in Woodstock in May 2015, she maintained its
Végétalien
Photos Meghan Spiro
AS PLANT-BASED EATING continues to trend nationwide, the husband-and-wife duo behind the local River Valley Restaurant Group (Beacon Bread, Ziatun, Angelina’s, Tito Santana Taqueria) have brought a fully-vegan café to Beacon’s
