He’s a vegetarian and a Brooklynite — which means novelist Jonathan Safran Foer has pretty strong opinions about the best places to avoid eating animals.
“I’m a vegetarian, but I never eat in vegetarian restaurants,” he said. “Every restaurant in Park Slope has plenty of good options for non-meat-eaters. Chinese food, Indian food — these are easy places to avoid meat.”
Here’s Foer five top places and dishes:
Olive Vine
54 Seventh Ave. between Lincoln and St. Johns places, (718) 622-2626
“If I’m going anywhere in the vicinity of that place, I’ll go in and get a falafel and baba ghanoush. It’s insane. It’s as good as it gets.”
Park Slope Taqueria
74 Seventh Ave. between Lincoln and Berkeley places, (718) 398-4300
“I get the Berkeley vegetarian burrito, which has the roasted corn. It’s great.”
’snice
315 Fifth Ave. at Third Street, (718) 788-2121
“They have a Thai salad with edamame that I really like. I think all the food there is vegetarian.”
Yamato
168 Seventh Ave. between Garfield Place and First Street, (718) 840-0099
“We used to get sushi there. But now I eat inari [tofu skins with rice]; vegetable tempura; avocado-and-cucumber rolls; the Japanese pickle platter; which I love, and the excellent miso eggplant.”
Bonnie’s Grill
278 Fifth Ave. between Garfield Place and First Street, (718) 369-9527
“Their veggie burger is f—king great! I remember what hamburgers were like, but, believe it or not, I would choose their veggie burger over a hamburger. I know that sounds just like what a vegetarian would say, but they are maddeningly good.”