About The Good Taste Guide

We assume you're here because you want to find good vegan food to eat in New York — actually good vegan food. We have the good taste, and The Good Taste Guide is here to help!

Simply put, we want to find vegan food that anyone would want to eat, whether that person is vegan or not. This is a critical resource that aims to make vegan food more accessible by providing an easy way to find good options wherever you are.

Our philosophy is that vegan food can be, and is, competitive with non-vegan food. Good food is good food. However, people tend to overrate vegan restaurants (usually coming from a good place), which can make it hard to find high quality stuff. A lot of food out there isn't amazing, and that includes vegan stuff. We want to hold them to a higher standard.

We mostly target food under $20 per person and try to only review places at the restaurant and not with delivery. And we don't review pizza, bagels or burgers. Or desserts. Grow up.

Ratings Guide

• Phenomenal: Amazing food, you should travel for this. We only give this out rarely.
• Good: We recommend this. Go with some friends and order some things, you'll have a good time.
• SGFI: Something Going For It. While not everything was great, there's certain items or experiences that are worth checking it out for. We'd probably go back at some point.
• DNR: Do Not Recommend. Sometimes really bad but not always. Mostly means we wouldn't go there again.

There is a similar Bad Fine Good Phenomenal classification for value. Note that value is not the same thing as price, it's how we feel about the price relative to the experience, adjusted for how absolutely inafordable everything is in New York.

Credits

All reviews are provided by Editor-in-Chief Itsi Weinstock, along with a rotating cast of friends, buddies, colleagues, and acquaintances.

The website was built by Senior Taste Augmentation Engineer Aapeli Vuorinen. The code is open source with an MIT license and can be found on our GitHub repository.

Contact

Email us all complaints, comments, and suggestions.

Yes, we will hang out with you at your favorite place and add it to the map.

Disclaimer

All opinions, despite how good they are, should not be construed to be fact.

Where providing factual information such as menus, addresses, alcohol availability etc. we have sourced our information from either the restaurant being reviewed or third party information providers where necessary. Please contact us if you would like anything to be corrected.

If I have accidentally included any non-vegan items here by mistake, please let me know and I will remove it immediately.