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simple pleasures at shoop’s
8November 28th, 2009LA restaurants, shoop'sUPDATE: just received the following comment from shoop’s. apparently vegan diners should order sandwiches on the baguette. be sure to double check that your bread is vegan when ordering.
Hi! I’m from Shoop’s. And yes, we do our best to accommodate all of our vegan customers. I just wanted to clarify about the bread. The above pictured sandwich is on a baguette, which is vegan. It’s the Foccacia which has an egg wash. We also have a great German multigrain bread. Thanks for the review!!
located on hayworth right at santa monica blvd in weho, shoop’s is a modest hole in the wall shop with an impressive menu of breakfast items, wraps, hot and cold sandwiches, soups and salads. but the place is so tiny and tucked away, that if you didn’t know it was there you would totally miss it. while shoop’s is by no means a vegan mecca and i wouldn’t suggest herbivores make a special trip there, it has some great animal-free selections.
when i hit up shoop’s a few weeks ago, the owner was working behind the counter. she was super-friendly and willing to answer all my questions about which menu offerings contained animal products. in fact she told me she used to be a vegan herself, and warned me not to order my sandwich on the baguette (egg wash), nor to order anything with soy turkey (egg whites). i knew i was in good hands. she also told me that for vegans, shoop’s would be willing to sub tofu and vegan mayo on any sandwich…so feel free to modify.
timber's tofu filet: grilled marinated tofu, avocado, roasted red peppers, sprouts and vegan mayo. served with fruit. $8.95
i wound up ordering timber’s tofu filet on focaccia bread, a hot sandwich stacked with grilled marinated tofu, avocado, roasted peppers (which i left off), sprouts and vegan mayo. this sandwich was simple, but really excellent. the bread was extremely high quality, crunchy and fluffy stuff—shoop’s obviously doesn’t cut any corners—and the grilled tofu was tender and deliciously marinated. the owner even made a remark to me that she thought their tofu was better than most places because shoop’s doesn’t “just soak it in soy sauce.” i don’t know what they do marinate it in, but it was tasty.
as i was packing up the second half of my sandwich (it was way too big to eat in one sitting), the owner brought me a small cup of lentil soup. she explained that shoop’s daily soup is almost always vegan, and i should try it out. yum…thick and hearty with soft lentil chunks, this thing really hit the spot.
while there isn’t a huge vegan selection at shoop’s, it’s nice to know that there is a sandwich shop willing to accommodate us. the place is SUPER vegetarian-friendly, so maybe if we bother them enough they will switch to a brand of soy turkey that doesn’t have egg whites in it!
just remember, get your sandwich on focaccia NOT a baguette! ….and order it with fruit, the coleslaw isn’t vegan.
shoop’s
1107 north hayworth
west hollywood, ca 90046
323-654-9500oh oh oh, and they have a santa monica location too!
shoop’s
Tags: sandwich, tofu, weho
2400 main st. #a-l
santa monica
310-452-1019
8 responses to “simple pleasures at shoop’s” 
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that grilled tofu looks bee-yoo-tif-full. nice grill marks! rawr.
now i have salt-n-pepa in my head.
i wanna shoop baby shoop, shoop ba doop
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Awesome – Can’t wait to try this place- thanks quarrygirl!
Now, perhaps Shoop’s has a liberal definition of focaccia, but I could swear that the sandwich in the accompanying photo is on a baguette.
And come to think of it, I’ve never heard of an egg wash on a baguette. Not even in anti-vegan early 2000’s Paris. C’mon Shoop’s!
I guess I’m still worked up from an anti-eggwash tirade at dinner tonight…
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miss anthrope November 29th, 2009 at 08:32
@bil, yeah i saw the baguettes there and they were different and kind of shiny… I HATE EGG WASH.
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Now I’m curious — you say the owner “used to be vegan”. Why did she regress?
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jennifer November 29th, 2009 at 16:58
yumz! and rad that she was so knowledgeable, stupidfucking”glaze”! i hate when peeps say i “used” to be vegan… 🙁
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shoops February 20th, 2010 at 21:48
Hi! I’m from Shoop’s. And yes, we do our best to accommodate all of our vegan customers. I just wanted to clarify about the bread. The above pictured sandwich is on a baguette, which is vegan. It’s the Foccacia which has an egg wash. We also have a great German multigrain bread. Thanks for the review!!
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Charmaine April 26th, 2010 at 04:59
Thanks Shoops for clearing up the picture. I am however a little disappointed b/c as a vegan, I go to Shoops, which I love, and b/c of quarry girl, I was ordering every sandwich on the foccacia….oh, well, I should have done my own research, but I will say that the Multigrain bread is very good too!
Brittany November 28th, 2009 at 20:48