Pam Giarrizzo

I've been wanting to check out the vegan cuisine at Baagan for a long time, and finally drove up to Roseville with my friend Kathy for lunch there last week.I ordered the Veggie Wrap, pictured above, with a spinach herb tortilla as my choice of wrap. ...

I've been watching the corner of 19th and J streets with interest for a few months to see what would occupy that space, which hasn't worked out well for the last couple of restaurants. Most recently, a Mongolian barbecue was there, and before that, a ...

Get ready for Vegan Mondays beginning May 27th, when Chef Kimba Kabaka will bring his I'tal cuisine to Negril on J.The menu at Negril focuses on food from the Caribbean. Currently, the restaurant is closed on Sundays and Mondays, so turning over the k...

I arrived at SactoMoFo 6, the mobile food truck festival under the freeway at 6th and W, just as it opened on Saturday. It's a good thing I did -- the crowds were huge and lines were long by the time I left. But while I was there, here are the food...

The next Sacramento Mobile Food Festival is coming up this Saturday, so I sent messages to most of the vendors asking if they'd be offering any vegan menu items. Here's what I've found out so far. I'll post any updates on my Sacramento Vegan Facebook...

I must have driven past Shabu Japanese Fondue hundreds of times, but I'd never checked it out. Then a friend had dinner there and told me the menu looked vegan-friendly. So my husband and I went to Shabu over the weekend.I was concerned about whether...

One nice thing about writing this blog is that I'm always looking for vegan-friendly restaurants I haven't tried before. That's how I ended up at Pita Pit on 65th Street for lunch yesterday, and a very good lunch it was!Pita Pit has several different ...

I've been hearing for weeks that Chipotle Mexican Grill was going to be adding a tofu option to its menu. They've been test marketing the product, called Sofritas, in seven San Francisco Bay Area restaurants, and they finally rolled it out to all of t...

Today, I'm joining more than 200 other food bloggers in calling attention to the problem of hunger in America. The Food Bloggers Against Hunger project was created in response to A Place at the Table, a recently-released movie that chronicles the chal...

I stopped in for lunch over the weekend at Wayside Noodles, a Northern California restaurant chain serving Vietnamese food. While the restaurant doesn't offer much, if anything, that's specifically vegan, there are numerous dishes on the menu that can...