During her visit she visited Belmont Veg, Loving Hut and Acoustic Java.

From Kristin’s blog, Will Travel for Vegan Food:

…Even though I haven’t been to too many Loving Huts in the US… yet… I think I know why this place is rated #1. Aside from making delicious food they are so friggin’ friendly here. Holy wow! Granted, the friendly factor at all the Loving Huts I’ve been to so far exceeds most of the other vegan restaurants. That’s no lie. But this place takes the vegan cake. The woman who took care of me was a lovely, warm soul. She greeted me with a huge smile and asked how long I’ve been vegan, where I’m from, and more questions about the trip once I mentioned that. So sweet and very attentive. Impeccable customer relationship management + good food = a winning combo...

Read the entire blog post about her visit to Worcester…

The Massachusetts state director for the Humane Society will be giving a presentation on Effective Animal Advocacy (facebook event) at Loving Hut at 11am. Right afterwards, there will the monthly all-vegan buffet fundraiser at Loving Hut (also on facebook). The workshop is free, but if you stick around for the buffet it’s $10 and 10% of your check is donated to VegWorcester.

If you still haven’t had enough excitement, join Massachusetts Animal Rights Coalition at 2pm for an anti-fur protest at the Greendale Mall. Many of the members will be at the buffet, so you can likely carpool from there.

This summer we started by ordering 5000 copies of our 2011 Veg Dining Guide. Some awesome people pitched in to raise the money to get them printed. Here’s the good news, we already distributed all 5000 of them! We distributed all of them in only 3 months. 3 months! Last year we distributed 5000 copies over an entire year. So now we ordered 5000 more.

Based on feedback, we made a couple of small updates and ordered a new batch. The new edition fixed some small typos, updated our meeting place, and added some events listings.

Help us distribute them – Monday, Nov 21

The next step is to get these guides into the hands of Worcesterites. They aren’t doing any good sitting on a shelf. Want to volunteer to help hand them out? On Monday, November 21 at 9am a group of VegWorcester volunteers will be meeting at the Bean Counter on Highland street to do some leafleting at colleges. We’ll pick a couple of schools, break up into small teams and then spend a few  hours on campuses handing them out, along with some booklets from Vegan Outreach. After that we’ll restock our displays at the restaurants listed in the guide. We should be done by about 1pm.

Or if you can’t make it on Monday, but want a stack to distribute, drop me a line and we can get you a stack.

If you can join us on Monday or want to get a stack to distribute on your own, email drew@VegWorcester.com.

On the second Saturday of every month, from noon-5pm, there’s a $10 vegan mock-meat bonanza at Loving Hut. This weekend, we’re celebrating 2 years of support from the restaurant. VegWorcester will present the restaurant with a certificate of appreciation and Loving Hut is promising some kind of surprise for the customers who come out to teh buffet this Saturday.

If you haven’t been to a Loving Hut buffet in a while, don’t miss this one.

Facebook event.

Loving Hut Chandler’s monthly vegan buffet fundraiser is this weekend– Saturday, October 8th, from noon-5pm, 415 Chandler St. Worcester, MA. As always – ALL VEGAN! ALL TASTY! ALL YOU CAN EAT! Its only $10, and 10% of proceeds are donated to VegWorcester to support local events and outreach. This week, some members of VegWorcester will be attending the Ringling Circus Protest in Worcester from 1:00-3:30 at the DCU Center, so if you’re coming to the protest with us, join us afterwards also for the Loving Hut Buffet from 3:30-5:00pm.

Remember to always get a new plate (for health code reasons,) and please only take what you can eat! Plates of wasted delicious vegan food are a big no-no! Loving Hut always has new vegan items in the fridge, so go ahead and buy something to take home and try out your mad cookin skills. Don’t forget to grab your copy of the Worcester Veg-Dining Guide at the front door of Loving Hut too

Facebook Event

Loving Hut’s monthly vegan buffet is this coming up again, this Saturday, August 13th, from noon-5pm. As usual, its all vegan, $10 for all you can eat, and 10% of proceeds are donated to VegWorcester to support local events and outreach. Come chow down on some delicious vegan food, 415 Chandler St. Worcester, MA.

We’re hoping to have some copies of the newly updated & printed Worcester Veg-Dining Guide at the buffet! So keep an eye out for those!

Facebook Event: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=169616339775070

Meetup.com Event: http://www.meetup.com/vegan-365/events/24200031/

Here’s a sneak peak at the new Summer 2011 edition of the Veg Dining Guide to Worcester. As you probably already know, we’re printing 5000 copies to hand out this summer. We’re fundraising now. I’m pumped that we’re so close to having a new print edition of this dining guide. We just need to raise about $200 more (donate here).

Below is the main page of the dining guide. There is also another page that includes upcoming events and a panel explaining 3 reasons to go vegan, but this should give you a good idea about what to expect.

We’ll also post a printable PDF after we send it to the printer.

We only have $205 left until we can send this to the printer. Check out our fundraising campaign on The Point if you can donate some money and help us get this guide printed.

Big thanks to Manda, Heather, Todd, Aurora, Laurie, Dylan, Hillary, Sue, Alan, Manda, Cody, Danger, Javier and Lauren! And Viswa, Erin and Julia for doing a bake sale to raise money for this project.

Want to meet new people? Join us at noon, ask for the vegan meetup. Or roll with your own posse.

Facbeook event: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=218945478145535
Meetup event: http://www.meetup.com/vegan-365/events/24159141/

Here’s the facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=206444456057790

Want to meet some VegWorcester volunteers? Join us from noon-1:30 at the center table. Come with friends or on your own.

Here’s the facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=169323716461133