Learn From
the Pros
Healthy plant-based cooking and wellness classes.
Jumpstart Your Health with Plant Docs
From the best places to dine and bakeries
that produce cruelty-free treats to fellow
vegans to follow and cooking classes to take,
our guide will get you hooked on the whole
wide world of veg.
Plant City Julians and Pizza J
Four vegan restaurants and a food
market under one roof cover
every non-plant-based craving
with its veggie equivalent: If we
could eat this way every day, we
would. Go for Mexican at Bar
Verde where the heaping
butternut queso-topped nachos,
hearty cauliflower tacos and a
roasted mushroom quesadilla one
up meaty counterparts, or choose
Italian at Double Zero, where
vegetable-and-cashew-cheese-
topped pizzas, decadent Italian
bolognese and meatless meatballs
will satisfy the fiercest carnivores.
Fix together a build-your-own
lunch bowl at Make Out or settle
in for a Beyond Meat burger at
New Burger. You won’t miss the
meat after experiencing these
feasts. 334 South Water St.,
Providence, 429-2029, matthew
kenneycuisine.com/plant-city-pvd Julians was one of the first on the
scene to begin catering cuisine to
vegans more than a decade ago
with vegan brunch options like
French toast with pomegranate
and pear jam, toasted coconut and
vegan blueberry whipped cream,
granola pumpkin-spiced pancakes
and vegan Benedict with fried
tofu. Pizza J followed suit with a
whole restaurant dedicated to
pies. They will substitute a
gluten-free crust for any pizza,
and guests can also ask for the
free vegan cheese substitution.
Our personal favorite, the Tony
Clifton, involves housemade
vegan ricotta, roasted potatoes
and red peppers, garlic, onion and
olive oil. Julians, 318 Broadway,
Providence, 861-1770, julians
providence.com; Pizza J, 967
Westminster St., Providence,
632-0555, pizzajprovidence.com >>
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Meatless Monday (On A Wednesday)
at Professor Chef
Professor Chef, the husband-and-wife duo that
teaches cooking classes out of their North Providence
kitchen, offers lessons in everything from regional
Italian cuisine to cooking like Julia Child. Their Meatless
Monday classes — which, in fact, happen on Wednesdays
— offer instruction on easy-to-make plant-based
recipes like creamless cream of broccoli soup,
edamame stew, quinoa risotto and carrot osso buco.
professorchef.com
Healthy Eating Classes at Newport Cooks
Contrary to its name, Newport Cooks is actually in
Middletown — but that doesn’t change the fascinating
lineup of world cuisine cooking classes that happen in
Mary Weaver’s kitchen. Weaver offers an ever-changing
lineup of healthy eating classes, like Grain Bowls —
Thai, Indian and Mexican — which teach guests to use
different ingredients to make balanced, flavorful meals
that you can prep once and eat all week.
newportcooks.com —Julie Tremaine
CLOCKWISE FROM TOP:
Plant City’s Jumpstart
Your Health by Plant Docs
healthy eating program.
Professor Chef’s Meatless
Monday cooking classes.
Newport Cooks plant-
based cooking classes.
Denotes an all-vegan restaurant.
Plant-based is
all the rage, and
Rhode Island is
front and center
on the craze.
Plant City isn’t just a plant-based restaurant — it’s a
community resource for learning better habits. Case in
point: Jumpstart Your Health by Plant Docs, which is a
month-long program that helps you transition to a
plant-based diet in a way that gives you solid proof of
the benefits. Medical doctors take your blood work at
the beginning of the month, and then show you how
far you’ve come at the end. Support comes from five
group sessions with Plant Docs and Food For Life
nutrition educators, recipes, cooking demos,
meetings and market visits. plantdocspvd.com