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Awesome birthday dinner

For my birthday this year, Kevin took me to Cafe Sunflower. It tends to be the default special occasion restaurant for veg*ns in Atlanta, but really it’s good any time. While not 100% vegan, there are tons of vegan options and the staff can help you figure out what’s what. Also, kind of rarity for Atlanta veg restaurants, Cafe Sunflower serves beer & wine.

We started with fried brussels sprouts in a sweet sauce. They’re fried, so of course they’re tasty. But I really like brussels sprouts so I prefer them steamed or roasted if I’m cooking them at home.

brussels sprouts

Kevin had one of his regular favorites, the stuffed acorn squash.

stuffed acorn squash

And I had the pepper crusted tempeh. Under it that’s romaine lettuce, potatoes and a balsamic reduction sauce, I think. All rockin’.

pepper crusted tempeh

And I don’t know if they’ve always had this lighting at the tables, but it’s very friendly to food blogging. 🙂

For dessert, I made my own birthday cake. It was a black forest cake and I utterly failed to take any pictures of it.

Dinner at Cafe Sunflower

Yes, indeed, there has been a lot of eating out going on. I’m still working on pre-farmer’s market run photos though, so eventually you’ll see I cook stuff sometimes.

This past Friday, we had dinner at Cafe Sunflower with some friends. It’s an Atlanta vegetarian institution.

We started off with some fried okra and fried tofu. I’m not a big okra fan, but these were pretty good. Low on the slime factor. The tofu was excellent.

Then as my entree I had the Kung Pao Soy Chicken. Here it ends up being somewhere between Chinese and Thai in flavor. I think there’s Thai Basil in it or something. And it comes with brown rice so I can pretend it’s all perfectly healthy. Kevin had the stuffed acorn squash but it was extra blurry so no pic of that.

The best part about going to Cafe Sunflower is the vegan CAKE. Say hello to peanut butter mousse cake:

Not everything is vegan, but just ask. The servers with be straight up with you.

Date Night Food

Friday night we had a nice date night that started with Cafe Sunflower and then was followed by the symphony. We started with pear in a wine sauce with endive. No picture because I forgot. It was refreshing though. I had the ravioli with butternut squash (I think) and tofu ricotta. They’ve switched from using regular ricotta which rocks!

And Kevin got the lemon chicken.

Oh, and we split a piece of strawberry cake. But I was too interested in tearing into it to take a picture.

I’ve had pretty consistently good food at Cafe Sunflower over the years. My only complaint has been trying to find the hidden non-vegan items. But the server this night asked us right off if we were vegan and then gave us the whole rundown of the menu and what we could and couldn’t get or substitutions that could be made. Other vegetarian restaurants should take note if they’d like to gain the trust of vegans.