Maximum Fit Magazine

Do you have a favorite vegetarian restaurant in the greater San Francisco Bay Area?  Perhaps you have a few.  I would love to know about them. My own favorite, in the moderate price range, is Ambrosia Garden in Albany (next door to Berkeley): http://www.ambrosiagarden.com/ The food is exceptionally flavorful, and served in abundant (maybe too abundant!) quantities.  A full menu with a few pictures is available at their website.  This restaurant is in the tradition of San Francisco's celebrated (but now closed) Lotus Garden on Grant Street. Ostensibly, the meals try to imitate meat flavors with tofu, wheat gluten, seitan, etc., and the dishes have pseudo-meat names, like General Chou's Chicken and Taro Fish , but there is no chicken or fish in them. The pseudo-chicken dishes are almost all good, but some of the pseudo-fish dishes are not all that great.   Roasted Chicken is my favorite, followed closely by General Chou's Chicken . Here is a very good listing of Bay Area vegetarian restaurants.  I have not tried many of these.  Have you?  I'd be interested in your review of any of them: http://www.vegeats.com/restaurants/ca-sf.htm Or if you know of any vegetarian or health-oriented restaurants in the Bay Area, please share them with us. Many thanks in advance for your contribution! David Brett dbrett-phantasmagorical

Or if you know of any vegetarian or health-oriented restaurants in the Bay Area, please share them with us. Vegetarian or healthy? I kind of think that there is healthy food and one can choose to eat in a healthy way but I wouldn't consider vegetarian to be synonymous with healthy.

Or if you know of any vegetarian or health-oriented restaurants in the Bay Area, please share them with us. Vegetarian or healthy? I kind of think that there is healthy food and one can choose to eat in a healthy way but I wouldn't consider vegetarian to be synonymous with healthy. Nobody said they were.  One would not use a phrase like vegetarian or healthy if one thought they were the same thing. S.

Or if you know of any vegetarian or health-oriented restaurants in the Bay Area, please share them with us. Vegetarian or healthy? I kind of think that there is healthy food and one can choose to eat in a healthy way but I wouldn't consider vegetarian to be synonymous with healthy. Nobody said they were.  One would not use a phrase like vegetarian or healthy if one thought they were the same thing. S. So are you saying that they are mutually exclusive? I read the original post as asking for restaurants that can be described with the terms vegetarian or health-oriented .

Nobody said they were.  One would not use a phrase like vegetarian or healthy if one thought they were the same thing. S. So are you saying that they are mutually exclusive? I read the original post as asking for restaurants that can be described with the terms vegetarian or health-oriented . Hello Steve and Guy: Thanks for your response, Steve.  It hadn't posted at the time I left my response, but you've obviously got the correct understanding. Guy: no, they're not mutually exclusive.  They overlap in some instances and not in others. Logicians distinguish two senses of the word or : an exclusive sense and an inclusive sense.  And even non-logicians (regular folks) make this distinction.  The exclusive sense of 'or' means one or the other, but not both . Example: if you go into a restaurant and they ask you if you would like soup or salad with your meal, they are usually inviting you to choose one or the other, but not both (exclusive or). The inclusive sense of 'or' means one or the other or both . Example: most people can improve their cardiovascular health by regular exercise or by restricting fat intake in their diets. If they do one, it will probably help; if they do the other, it will probably help; if they do both, it will probably help. One or the other, or both (inclusive or). In academic logic, exclusive in this context means that which excludes (one option or the other) , while inclusive means that which may include both options . For what it's worth, exclusive or is sometimes called exclusive disjunction by logicians, while inclusive or is sometimes called inclusive disjunction . Typically, one can tell which sense of 'or' is being used by the context in which it is used.  If one sense tangles one up in absudities, the other sense is probably the one intended. You can read more about this scintillating topic, if you're interested, at this site (hosted by Oxford University): http://logic.philosophy.ox.ac.uk/tutorial2/Tut2-b-02.htm Having clarified this matter, I ask, Do you have any favorite vegetarian or healthy restaurants? Cheers.