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PLANT POWER

A few years ago, meat alternatives on restaurant menus were hard to find without asking for substitutions or omissions to dishes, and exclusively vegetarian or vegan restaurants were few and far between.

Those days are almost in the rearview mirror as we speed past, and most restaurants now offer a decent selection of generally tasty vegetablefocused dishes. The number of exclusively plant-based restaurants has also grown exponentially.

Chefs countrywide are pushing the traditional boundaries and exploring meat-free dining.

WESTERN CAPE

Plushi, Cape Town

This online, zero-waste, vegan sushi restaurant experiments with vegan and Asian cuisine. It aims to

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