Wednesday, July 30, 2008

Miraculous Burritos

The Chef: Lisa

The Menu: Big, beautiful burritos stuffed with spiced black beans, button mushrooms, corn, fresh tomatoes, avocado, and romaine lettuce. Our side salad of mixed greens and baby heirloom tomatoes got an inventive vinaigrette made with a yet-to-be-released vegan yogurt. Just in case that kind of news interests you, make sure and sign up for our VegNewsletter, which will feature a full review in the upcoming August edition.

The Goods: So you may be wondering what exactly made these burritos miraculous, and simply, it's that they were expandable enough to accommodate our surprise lunch guest today, Ms. Moira Nordholt! Moira's contributed to VN for years and is currently riding her motorcycle from her home in sunny Southern California to just about the Arctic Circle. San Francisco somehow seems an appropriate second day, since we had typical windy, foggy weather today—which didn't quite qualify as arctic, but certainly wasn't SoCal sunny, either. Here's Moira with the ladies of VN: