Real Food Daily

Real Food Daily is among the top of our vegan restaurant list. We read about this place from VegNews magazine a while ago and decided to pay it a visit while visiting family in the LA area. Unfortunately for us, there are only two locations and both are in Los Angeles: one in Santa Monica and the other in Hollywood. It has rather cozy seating but who's to complain if their food is delish!?

RFD has a regular menu, a monthly and a weekly rotating menu with new dishes. For the month of May, their special was Two Hot Oaxacan Tamales made with two seared tofu and vegetables tamales, spicy mole sauce, anasazi beans and spicy cole slaw with toasted pepitas.

In addition, we ordered the Pizza You Can Eat-za. If you were to order this, I would suggest you erase all your preconception of what a typical pizza should be like. Perhaps it was the cornmeal crust that made it taste more like flat quiche, but it was tasty, nonetheless.

As part of their weekly menu, we ordered the cleverly named, My Hands Are Thai. A dish of spicy glazed king mushroom, noodles, cabbage, avocado, snow peas, cilantro mint, basil, peanuts with spicy thai dressing. Great for a warm close-to-summer day.

Real Food Daily is definitely a place to try, vegan or not. I would eat here everyday if I could, simply because their menu changes. It definitely has an eclectic following of hip LA peeps but flip-flop wearing San Diegans won't feel out of place.