Astor Mediterranean has joined several other DC pizza parlors by offering vegan cheese for their pizzas. Two Fridays ago the Adams Morgan eatery began serving the popular Teese vegan cheese on its vegetarian pizza. Astor was already a destination for me because of their other vegan offerings like falafel, which they do very well.Astor (1829 Columbia Rd NW) joins several other DC pizza restaurants which offer a dairy free alternative to cheese pizza. Ella's Pizza in Penn Quarter has been serving vegan soy cheese for as long as I can remember. Pete's Apizza in Columbia Heights starting offering Teese only days after opening last year. Pizzeria Paradiso offers a soy based cheese alternative for its pizzas at both locations (Georgetown + Dupont). And both Red Rocks (Columbia Heights) and Moroni Brothers (Petworth) have dairy free cheese available for pizzas. I prefer my pizzas without any cheese--just sauce, tomatoes and veggies--but I love that these restaurants are recognizing the vegans and those who are dairy free for health/lactose intolerant/other reasons. I joined a packed house to congratulate Astor and buy pizzas two weeks ago and will continue to support similar efforts from other establishments.
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This is all very good news for those of us who are vegan, lactose intolerant, etc.
But you left a key ingredient out of your post. Much of this vegan cheese is available at restaurants in the District because of the fine work of Compassion Over Killing. Hats off to them!
Astor's pizza may be the best vegan pizza in DC! you should check it out if you haven't yet -- and all month (March) they are giving a 20% discount on vegan cheese pizza. Check it out on www.VegDC.com!
Their soy cheese pizza is incredible!!!! Good for my health and the cows!
That's great. Astor is one of those places that didn't hold on to an outstanding cook, and the food is not nearly as good as it used to be. Thankfully, she is cooking elsewhere in the District.
But their pizza still is good, and it's a good thing their in the neighborhood. Still, there's not a real high appreciation for GOOD COOKING in DC. Still not there yet.
This is fantastic! Thanks for posting these, I am adding them to the dining suggestions on my website with links back to your blog, of course! Hopefully it will send some more patrons to them. If you have any other restaurants to recommend that cater to dairy-free/vegan dining, feel free to let me know. Thank you again!
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