Vegan and raw foodies know and love this popular healthy eating restaurant for its many brunch specialties, including a raw plate of “live” nachos, an eggless Florentine-ish Lotus Benedict and one complexly mean Bloody Mary. But dinner—with items like coconut-bacon-studded Cobb salads, golden beet ravioli dishes, bibimbop bowls, and lentil-walnut burgers—isn’t too shabby, either.

We all know by now that Gregory Gourdet’s a bona fide TV star, as well as a video game kitchen superhero. And if you follow his Twitter feed, you know that he’s into keeping fit by the sheer number of tweets that detail the 12- and 15-mile runs he puts in before his workday even starts. And while Portland’s fallen in love with his food, vegans and carnivores are especially sweet on him, thanks to his ongoing vegan and paleo dinner series.

Any grocer knows that if you want to seduce the lunch crowd, you need a good built-it-yourself salad bar, because there’s probably nothing better than light, leafy salads to get us through the afternoon. Which is why it makes sense that two lunch and early-dinner salad spots have sprung up in the last couple of years in the Pearl and Old Town neighborhoods, where retailers, techies and tourists can get Garden Bar Salad Co. salads in the blink of an eye—especially if they take advantage of the company’s no-wait online ordering process.[Photo]

Portland’s latest vegetarian spot focuses on seasonal vegetables for its lunch and dinner offerings, a fact that’s made all the more interesting because the menus were designed by a chef who spent time smoking pigs in his parents’ Carolina barbecue joints. Soups and salads rule the day, but the mains look like they’re capable of trumping them: Think tamales with a chicory salsa verde, and spaghetti squash carbonara with a charred cauliflower confit.

There’s probably no American food genre more exclusive and insular than barbecue. People know it when they eat it, but even the loudest and most possessive Texans, Missourians and North Carolinians can’t agree on what’s truly authentic. They’d certainly roll their eyes at Jeff Ridabock’s vegan barbecue cart, but this city’s vegans remain loyal to the man for bringing to them the kinds of dishes—smoked tempeh ribs and seitan sausages and chickens—they’ve been so long denied.[Photo]

The name of this taqueria translates into little fatty, but the family that runs this Mexican chainlet’s three brick-and-mortars and its sole cart are devout vegans. And while they’re not above offering carnivores all the meat and cheese they want, they have a comprehensive list of soyrizo-based—and often gluten-free—favorites like tacos, burritos and vegan cheese-stuffed chile rellenos. [Photo]

Noé Garnica’s kitchen is a green one. Yes, some items are sautéed, but nothing’s ever fried. And, beer aside, you won’t find anything in the house that contains a trace of gluten. But the one aspect that makes his menu special—and which will fill you up without slowing you down—is that Garnica pairs each dish with a generous side of sautéed seasonal vegetables.