Vegan tacos
Tex Tubb’s Taco Palace, 2009 Atwood Ave.
The city’s widest range of vegan fillings for tacos, including fried avocado, fried cauliflower, fried brussels sprouts and roasted sweet potato. Ask for soy-free Teese vegan cheese and the vegan cilantro-lime “sour cream,” also found on the house vegan nachos.
Vegan barbecue seitan
Willy Street Co-op deli case, 1221 Williamson St. and 6825 University Ave.
A sloppy joe by any other name, this bun-filler is based on seitan (wheat gluten, which absorbs the flavors it’s cooked in). In this case, it’s a sweet-tangy barbecue sauce.
Vegan ramen
Umami Ramen and Dumpling Bar, 923 Williamson St.
Ramen famously starts with long-simmered meat broths, but here a seaweed-and-mushroom broth is topped with hearty smoked tofu, savory shiitake mushrooms, marinated bamboo shoots, bean sprouts and seaweed.
