Simon Says, Eat Fudge

Just a few weeks before my best friend's baby was born, I met up with her and her husband in Sarasota (about an hour-ish south of Tampa) for dinner. We started out at Bangkok for some delicious Thai food. I ordered the tofu in brown garlic sauce.

(I was the only vegan at the table, so no other meals were photographed.)

After awhile at Bangkok, we migrated our chit-chat session to Simon's Coffee House. I had heard that this place was vegan-friendly (and even offered raw options), but I never made it over there to check it out in person. We got there just an hour before closing. I ordered the iced matcha green tea

and the amazing, chocolaty and so-very-decadent vegan fudge.

I especially loved this with little nibbles of fresh orange and mint.

Along the left-hand side of their website, you'll see their different menus, which includes a vegan/vegetarian and a raw section. I look forward to returning to Simon's to check out their other vegan options.

A Manly Meal in the Woods // A Delicious Meal Indoors

Who knew that it would be possible to enjoy a plate of grilled veggies at a bachelor party in the woods? (We had permission to crash it, FYI.)

The following night was the bachelorette party, which we kept indoors because classy ladies such as ourselves can handle only so much sweat and bug bites. The first stop of our 3-part evening brought us to Bangkok in Sarasota. I ordered the most chock-full-of-veggies-curry on the menu.





It's hard to mess up a curry (but I did have one bad curry at Drunken Poet later in the trip, but I didn't bother photographing it). This was delicious, but seriously, nothing tops Baan Thai (see previous entry on Thai in Kansas).

The rest of the evening did not involve food, but it did involve good times. ;)