Your Guide to Connecticut’s Vegan and Vegetarian Restaurants

If you’re a carnivore, Connecticut is full of fast food – national and local restaurants serving the burger or chicken sandwich of your dreams. Pizza? Seafood? Meat fried in oil or smoked on hardwood? Drive down the block, you will find something.

What if you are fed up with everything and your doctor tells you that you need to worry about what you are eating because of your high blood pressure, diabetes, or high cholesterol? It’s easy to get a burger made from beef, but a tofu burger or a burger made from delicious slices of portabella mushrooms is not.

Here are 11 vegan / vegetarian restaurants in our state that you must visit for inspiration. I admit it, I felt lost the first time I sat in a vegetarian restaurant, I grew up on the meat and potatoes diet my parents gave me, and I liked it until my body said nothing more. I found that vegetable-based dishes made by the experienced hands of a well-trained chef can change your palate and body. I have lost about 140 pounds since my journey to the wonderful world of healthy eating began, you can be inspired too.

Do you need to eat healthier? Start at these vegan / vegetarian CT restaurants

It’s easy to make poor food choices here in Connecticut – there’s a fast food, pizza, or hamburger restaurant on just about every corner. If your doctor has told you to make better food choices, get inspired by dining at these restaurants

Great Golabki! Killer Kielbasa! Connecticut’s Polish Food Trail

Does a Dozen Cabbage Pierogi Turn Your Gray Sky Blue? Are you wearing a Kielbasa belt? I made a list of some of the best places to get Polish food in Connecticut

Connecticut Restaurants That Belong In The Food Chain

Sure, many of them have, but there are many more that deserve attention. Here are quite a few Connecticut restaurants that you’ve told us should be featured on the Food Network

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