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vegan coachella 2009: update from the field
8hey vegans, quarrygirl here reporting from coachella. yesterday in between drinking $7 beers, watching morrissey, and waiting in line for the bathroom, i was running around snapping vegan options all over the festival with my iphone. i wrote a quick post from my phone but had to delete it upon finding out that some of the stuff i suggested contained honey. so here is the updated info on vegan coachella 2009:
the best spot for vegan food is definitely inside the vip area. there you have luscious organic desserts selling a kick-ass selection of vegan cupcakes, plus a raw vegan stand called jenny’s. i had a cupcake from luscious and it totally blew my mind. more to come on that later.
luscious organic desserts
jenny's raw organic
if you don’t have vip access, never fear…you can get food in the dining area across from the dance tents. over there they have sweet leaf, an almost all vegan organic stand…except there is honey in all their dressings. so grab a wrap or salad at sweet leaf…just get it with no sauce or dressing. there is also a mexican stand called leno’s that uses no lard and a curry/mex stand called cowboys and turbans that sells vegan tofu masala. there’s also a middle eastern stand where you can get a falafel sandwich and some garlic fries.
sweet leaf
leno's lard free mexican
cowboys and turbans
so that’s it for now. if you are at coachella this weekend, i hope you enjoy the festival and that this helps you find somewhere to eat!
Tags: coachella, cupcakes, curry, organic, raw, vegan
7 responses to “vegan coachella 2009: update from the field” 
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Thanks for the on-the-spot pix and updates!
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hey quarry, stop by luscious again and say hi, i’m the big guy with a goatee. 🙂
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Grrrr, you’re making me jealous! I’ve been to Coachella in 99, 01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 06, 08, but can’t afford this year.
I normally don’t even set foot in the beer gardens but I was hanging with some friends last year and there was a place that had vegan pesto pizza in the beer garden across from the Sahara.
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We made it just in time for Moz and we ate at Cowboys & Turbans after his set. I had the tofu masala. It was good but I could have used more kick. Other than the booze the food section of the VIP was pretty dead. Oh well, to be expected when you show up at 845P. =)
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chalyse April 19th, 2009 at 00:27
I was already sad that I couldn’t make it to Coachella…but now that I know there are vegan options there I missed out on way more than I thought!! There’s always next year I suppose…
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how depressing.this is my first year not going since 2004 and even the vegan blogs i read won’t stop rubbing it in my face that i’m stuck in canada and not with my best friend dying in the sun having the time of my life.thanks.
p.s have you had those sambazon acai smoothies/parfaits they serve from the sambazon tent?those are incredible.i didn’t have one last year,though,so i dunno if they were there or would be there this year…
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we must have walked by one another a bajillion times – how excellent was it when morissey walked off stage because he couldn’t stand the smell of cooking meat!! i had one of hose acai things evan is talking about – incredible! highlight of my coachella culinary adventures.
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