Twin Cities Vegan Events

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## 🌱 Join Us at Namaste Cafe for a Delicious Twin Cities Vegan Chef Challenge Dine-Out!

📍 Where: Namaste Cafe, 2512 Hennepin Ave, Minneapolis, MN 55405
🕖 When: 6:00 PM on August 13th
💬 Space limited. Get your ticket soon.

We’re getting together for a fun, flavor-packed evening at Namaste Cafe on 8/13, and YOU’RE invited!

Namaste Cafe is a participant in this year’s exciting Twin Cities Vegan Chef Challenge and has a special, delicious dish entered in the competition– Masala Fire Taco. Join us for a chance to sample it with some like-minded folks. Your rating will help us see how it stacks up against the many other restaurants in the competition! Plus you’ll have fun while tasting some great food!

Want to try some AMAZING vegan food? You’re welcome to come, whether you’re vegan or not!

## 🥑 What’s the plan?

We’ll all be trying out their 2025 Twin Cities Vegan Chef Challenge dish, Masala Fire Taco]. It’s made with masala-spiced tofu served on corn tortillas and topped with crunchy cabbage, pickled onions, avocado, cashew mayo, cilantro sauce and green chilies and a side of refreshing watermelon cucumber mint salad.
We’ll also take a small action together at the event to help animals, learning trivia and learning about effective charitable giving! After we dine, everyone gets to rate the dish at caa.mn/tcvcc.

## 👨🏾‍🍳 What is the Twin Cities Vegan Chef Challenge?

Each August, restaurants around the Twin Cities add a new vegan dish to the menu. Diners visit restaurants and rate each dish they try.
We’ll crown the winning chef at a ceremony at 3:30pm on September 21, 2025, at Twin Cities Veg Fest in St. Paul’s Harriet Island Park.

## Who is Competing this Year?

You can see the full list of competing restaurants here!

## 🤝 Why come?

• Meet awesome new people from all walks of life
• Enjoy great conversation over tasty food
• Make change for animals
• Help determine the best challenge dish of the year
• Get a chance to win gift cards when you rate your dish or post about it
• Perfect event for those who want to learn more about vegan food

## ⭐ Who puts on this awesome event?

This event is co-hosted by Compassionate Action for Animals and Twin Cities 10%.

Compassionate Action for Animals is a Minnesota nonprofit organization working to create an animal-friendly culture throughout our state and offer support for compassionate choices. You may know us as the organizers of Twin Cities Veg Fest, and we run many other programs. Find upcoming events at caa.mn/event.

Twin Cities 10% is a local group of people who have taken the 10% Pledge—a global commitment to give at least 10% of their income to the organizations they believe will do the most good. They're co-sponsoring our vegan dine out at Namaste Café for the Twin Cities Vegan Chef Challenge to help raise awareness of effective giving and compassionate eating. Join us for great food and conversation about how we can make a bigger impact for animals, people, and the planet.
Hope to see you there!

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Join us for a Vegan Potluck in the West Suburbs! On Thursday August 14th we'll eat delicious plant-based food, share recipes and get new cooking ideas.
Come to the Base Camp coffee shop area of Unmapped Brewing Co. in Minnetonka from 6:30pm. All are welcome regardless of where you are on your vegan journey.

• Please bring a dish to share and the list of ingredients.
• If possible please bring a plate & utensils.
• Your dish should not contain any meat, dairy, eggs, fish, or butter – there are plenty of alternatives! Need ideas? Check out these websites for easy vegan potluck recipes: Insanely Good recipes, the Edgy Vegan, and The Vegan Atlas.

It's a great opportunity to make new like-minded friends, and have fun tasting yummy plant-based food!

This group is sponsored by Compassionate Action for Animals. Please contact info@exploreveg.org with questions.

Please sign up at: Volunteer | Compassionate Action for Animals

Join CAA to serve a vegan lunch at Simpson Housing Services! Simpson provides shelter to around seventy unhoused people each night, and partners with community groups to prepare meals for shelter residents. This is a wonderful way to care for our Minnesota community in an animal-friendly, eco-friendly way.

Please sign up at the link above to receive the address and other information to prepare for the event. We will gather at 10:00am and together, we’ll cook lunch in the kitchen, and then serve the meal to residents. Once food service comes to a lull, we will take breaks in small shifts to join the residents for lunch. Afterwards, we’ll tidy up, and everything should be finished by 1:00pm.

CAA provides a meal for Simpson guests every month. Watch this space for another opportunity to participate!

Other Notes:

• Please dress comfortably, with closed-toe shoes.
• We expect to serve about 30 residents.
• Please keep in mind that this is a community service event. While we may explain more about CAA’s work or veganism if residents ask, it is not an outreach event.
• If you have any questions, please email Nicola at nicola.philpott@exploreveg.org.

Please sign up at: Volunteer | Compassionate Action for Animals

Join CAA to serve a vegan lunch at Simpson Housing Services! Simpson provides shelter to around seventy unhoused people each night, and partners with community groups to prepare meals for shelter residents. This is a wonderful way to care for our Minnesota community in an animal-friendly, eco-friendly way.

Please sign up at the link above to receive the address and other information to prepare for the event. We will gather at 10:00am and together, we’ll cook lunch in the kitchen, and then serve the meal to residents. Once food service comes to a lull, we will take breaks in small shifts to join the residents for lunch. Afterwards, we’ll tidy up, and everything should be finished by 1:00pm.

CAA provides a meal for Simpson guests every month. Watch this space for another opportunity to participate!

Other Notes:

• Please dress comfortably, with closed-toe shoes.
• We expect to serve about 30 residents.
• Please keep in mind that this is a community service event. While we may explain more about CAA’s work or veganism if residents ask, it is not an outreach event.
• If you have any questions, please email Nicola at nicola.philpott@exploreveg.org.