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Souley Vegan – Oakland

$12 for $25 Worth of Vegan Soul Food

$12
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No Longer Available
Mon May 07 06:59:59 UTC 2012
Value
$25
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In a Nutshell

Celebrated vegan restaurant modifies classic southern recipes to exclude animal products while maintaining savory flavor

The Fine Print

  • Expires Nov 7, 2012
  • Limit 1 per person, may buy 2 additional as gifts. Limit 1 per table. Limit 1 drink per person. Valid for dine-in and carry-out only. Must use promotional value in one visit.
  • See the rules that apply to all deals.

Being a vegan can be hard, thankless work—extended family members rarely understand, many restaurants don't accommodate you, and cows still try to devour you every chance they get. Today's Groupon proves that vegan eating can be stylish, sexy, and delicious: for $12, you get $25 worth of vegan soul food at Souley Vegan in Oakland.

Named Best Soul-Food Mashup in 2011 by East Bay Express, as well as the best vegetarian restaurant by readers of Oakland magazine in 2010, Souley Vegan modifies classic southern recipes to exclude animal products without subtracting decadent flavor. Delve into herbivorous helpings with a plate of fried okra ($6), sizzled to a crispness that rivals the finest deep-fried vinyl records. Southern-fried tofu goes undercover as a traditional catfish dish ($10), donning a layer of batter and bubbling to a golden brown, and sidekicks of mustard greens and mac ‘n’ cheese stand guard. Whole-wheat buns nestle a range of meat-free sandwich morsels ($6–$9), and myriad house-made juices—such as the strawberry-ginger suffused with a touch of organic raw sugar ($4)—extinguish spice sans the dairy found in typical hoses filled with ice cream.

Souley Vegan

Souley Vegan's proprietor Tamearra Dyson uses techniques she learned from her family in Louisiana to subvert that idea that healthy, vegan eating lacks flavor. She dredges tofu in a southern-style batter that mimics fried catfish and fashions a menu that appeals to meat-eaters and vegans alike. Tofu also gets dressed in BBQ sauce in burgers and tossed in sweet and sour and green peppers. Tamearra and her kitchen staff put a vegan spin on a roster of Southern classics, such as potato salad with black olives following a family recipe three generations old, as well as mashed potatoes drenched in vegan gravy made like her mom did. The eatery's mac and cheese made with yeast-based, non-dairy cheese earned it accolades from the East Bay Express, which said that it "is so perfect a substitute to its dairy-based kin that it leaves the eater convinced it’s the real thing."

Brightly painted walls and block-style prints of blues musicians lend a cozy Southern atmosphere to the restaurant, where diners gather around color-splashed tables or cluster on picnic style benches as they share family-style meals or play License Plate Bingo for the last piece of fried okra.

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The Groupon Guide to: Aches and Pains

The stress of everyday life slowly crushes not only our souls, but also our bodies. Here's a guide to some of the most common pains and how to handle them even when you feel like you really don't have the capacity to handle anything right now:

Pain: Hand cramp
Cause: Wringing your hands over and over without realizing that you're even doing it
Remedy: Rub your hands with a soothing, odiferous balm made from every spice and also probably some ginger.

Pain: Crick in the neck
Cause: Sleeping on a weird pillow or something that is still breathing just a little
Remedy: Pull your neck from side to side, loosening the muscles into thick, guilt-free ropes.

Pain: Sore arms
Cause: Lifting weights or hacking something to pieces so you can hide it
Remedy: Give your arms a break from hacking for a while by maybe doing some digging. You're going to need to do some digging.

Pain: Weird back
Cause: The weight of your secrets bearing down on you
Remedy: Stop sleeping. Stay up all night sweatily watching and waiting for something—anything—to happen.

Will sleeping on something that’s breathing hurt my neck?

Souley Vegan

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    Oakland

    301 Broadway
    Oakland, California 94607
    (510) 922-1615
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