People often make New Year's resolutions to eat a more healthy and balanced diet by eating more plant-based meals. If you have made a resolution to eat more vegetables, you'll enjoy dining at any of these Dublin, California, restaurants that offer vegetarian and vegan options to help you with your New Year's resolution of healthier eating.
Star Chaat Cuisine
Star Chaat Cuisine is a premier Indian restaurant in the Dublin area with a diverse vegetarian menu. The chefs use fresh, natural ingredients and exotic spices that will excite your palate. After arriving at Star Chaat, start your Indian meal with an appetizer like the papdi chaat made with potatoes, vegetables, cilantro, and mint and tamarind chutney. You'll want to order bread to go with your vegetarian main meal, and you can enjoy the Tawa roti traditional whole-wheat bread that's perfect for dipping in the sauces that come with your vegetables.
Enjoy savory entrees such as the chole masala made with a smooth gravy of onions, tomatoes, and house spices served over nutritious chickpeas, or the toor dal crafted with yellow split peas and simmered in a broth that has whole dried chilies, Indian spices, and curry leaves. If you enjoy eating greens, order the Punjabi Tadka Saag with fresh spinach and mustard leaves cooked with ginger, garlic, onion, tomatoes, and traditional Punjabi spices. You can even have vegetables for dessert when you eat the gajjar halwa made with carrots and whole milk mixed with fragrant cardamom and dried fruit.
Location: 4930 Dublin Blvd. Suite 800
Contact: 925-404-7700
Burma! Burma!
If you are interested in exploring Burmese cuisine, you'll want to head over to Burma! Burma! This restaurant offers plenty of vegetable options and has an extensive menu with something to please every palate. Once seated at your table, order appetizers to share with offerings like lettuce wraps filled with fresh crisp vegetables, or vegan samosas with spicy potatoes, onions, and a fragrant house sauce. On a warm evening, relish the cool vegetarian tea leaf salad, filled with Burmese tea leaves, a variety of seeds, and jalapeno peppers.
On a cool evening, enjoy the samosa soup with chickpeas, vegetables, mint, marsala, and turmeric for a spicy flavor. You'll have lots of vegetable entree options at Burma! Burma! including intriguing dishes with lotus root, locally grown pumpkin, sweet corn, and tofu offered in their curry dishes or as an appetizer. Be sure to save room for desserts like the exotic coconut pudding. Check the website of Burma! Burma! often to see their live music schedule which makes your dining experience extraordinary.
Location: 7294 San Ramon Blvd.
Contact: 925-556-6188
Market Tavern Dublin
Vegetarians and meat lovers will find something delightful to eat when they make a reservation at Market Tavern Dublin. This restaurant serves a variety of cuisine styles ranging from Mediterranean to American. You'll find tasty appetizers like crispy Brussels sprouts, hummus and flatbread, or grilled cornbread served with chili-honey butter. If you'd like a salad as an entree, you'll enjoy the hearty beet salad with goat cheese, arugula, and hazelnuts, or the protein-rich quinoa salad with avocado, kale, dried cherries, and nuts.
If someone in your dining party is ordering a steak, you won't feel left out when you order the cauliflower steak served with garlic mashed potatoes and spinach smothered with a lemon-caper butter sauce. Or, go for the seasonal lasagna layered with wild mushrooms, squash, and spinach served with zesty arugula pesto. If you're craving a veggie burger, no worries. The chefs at Market tavern Dublin can cook you a burger with an Impossible plant-based patty served with vegan cheese and vegan Thousand Island dressing. Complete your upscale vegetarian meal with refreshing raspberry sorbet.
Location: 4775 Hacienda Drive
Contact: 925-361-8857
Satvik Eggless Bakery
When you're trying to reduce or eliminate eggs from your diet, having cakes is often challenging. However, you can have eggless cake and other baked treats when you shop at the women-owned Satvik Eggless Bakery. Imagine being able to bring an eggless vegetarian tiramisu cake with rich chocolate and coffee flavors to a special party. You can when you order one of these popular Italian cakes from Satvik Eggless Bakery.
Other popular cakes these bakers make include a mango cake, chocolate Oreo cake, and the rich chocolate Ferro Roche Cake. Satvik creates cakes that are ideal for birthday parties or other special events, including eggless kid's cakes, specialty decorated cakes for him or her, and exquisitely decorated milestone cakes.
Location: 6599 Dublin Blvd. Suite J
Contact: 844-472-8842
Erick's Delicafe
Since 1975, Erik's Delicafe has served customers amazing fresh salads, hot vegetarian soups, tasty sandwiches, and celicious wraps filled with fresh vegetables. Erik's Delicafe started in the small town of Scotts Valley nestled in the hills above the surf town of Santa Cruz. Today, you can find 27 Delicafes throughout the Bay Area of California, including one in Dublin. Locals enjoy the diverse range of food the chefs offer, with their vegetarian vegetable soup being one of the most popular items on the menu. Other popular vegetable soups include tomato basil bisque and creamy butternut squash.
Order any of the salads without the grilled chicken breast for a complete vegan experience. When you're craving a sandwich for lunch, you'll appreciate the vegetable options filled with avocado, tomato, cucumber, and sprouts served on whole grain bread or a whole wheat pita. One thing that sets Erik's Delicafes' vegetarian sandwiches apart from other sandwich shops is Erik's secret sauce. All sandwiches can come with gluten-free bread as well. Save room for a slice of Erik's carrot cake or a salted caramel cookie to finish your healthy lunch.
Location: 7741 Amador Valley Blvd. in Shamrock Village
Contact: 925-829-1414
Our team at Dublin Hyundai hopes you enjoy dining often at these amazing restaurants that feature healthy options. Which dining spot is your favorite? What dish will you order again to help you stay on your wellness journey? If you have a recommendation for another veggie/vegan restaurant in our area, contact our team at Dublin Hyundai. We always enjoy learning about healthy eateries in our area.
cauliflower bhaji by Abi Begum is licensed with CC BY 2.0
