Vegan TikTok star Tabitha Brown opens her first plant-based restaurant. The actress, social media influencer, and bestselling writer is bringing Chicago-based Kale My Identify – a vegan restaurant and bar – to the Los Angeles space. Whereas a gap date has not but been introduced, Kale My Identify will open on Ventura Boulevard in Encino, CA, about 20 miles from Los Angeles.
The unique Kale My Identify within the Albany Park neighborhood of Chicago first opened within the spring of 2020 amid the continued COVID-19 pandemic. The plant-based restaurant and bar specialise in globally impressed dishes like empanadas full of potatoes and greens; Italian-inspired seitan wraps (with mushrooms, kale, mozzarella, sun-dried tomatoes, and garlic aioli); and conventional Balkan ajvar (a candy unfold comprised of roasted peppers, eggplant, and sea salt); along with a wide range of tacos, burgers, smoothies, brunch gadgets and cocktails. “Kale is a strong one […] Superfood. After we designed the menu, we saved changing components like lettuce and spinach with kale as a result of we have been obsessed, ”restaurant proprietor Nemanja Golubovic beforehand instructed Block Membership Chicago.
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Golubovic and Brown first linked earlier this yr. Whereas the actress was in Chicago filming Showtimes The Chi, she got here throughout Kale My Identify on Instagram whereas looking for a vegan spot on the town. “I do not stay in Chicago. As a lot as I like Chicago, I wanted Kale My Identify regularly, ”Brown teased in her video announcement. “I assumed, ‘What if I discuss to the proprietor and say possibly we must always do a Kale My Identify LA.'”
Forward of its grand opening, Kale My Identify will make its Los Angeles debut on the Vegandale Meals Pageant on October 23, the place a collection of its menus shall be previewed.
Tabitha Brown: From the TikTok star to the opening of a vegan restaurant
Brown is a social media celebrity with tens of millions of followers on a number of platforms, together with TikTok, the place she shared a vegan carrot and bacon recipe that went viral instantly final yr. Kale My Identify is Brown’s first foray into the vegan eating world, and he or she’s already teasing that this would possibly not be her final.
“This shall be my first restaurant expertise, one thing I by no means thought I may. [I have] an excellent accomplice and restaurant that I like and consider in right here in California. I will not cease right here. That is what my thoughts says, ‘Tab, that is the primary, however not the final,’ ”Brown stated.
In her attribute means, Tabitha left the followers with an inspiring message after her announcement: “When you’ve got an concept, a dream or a thought, darling, do one thing with it.”
Tabitha Brown takes over the world
Tabitha Brown, who went vegan for the primary time in 2017, gained recognition after sharing a now viral video displaying a vegan TTLA sandwich – made with tempeh bacon, tomato, lettuce, and avocado – from the Entire Meals Market shared the rides for Uber. Since then, Brown has been prominently featured on social media platforms, sharing vegan off-the-shelf recipes and smart recommendation. Earlier than Brown joined the forged of The Chi on season 4, Brown starred in two seasons of her personal present All Love on the Ellen Community and obtained a NAACP Picture Award.
Over the previous yr, the a number of hyphen has excelled in nearly every part. After Brown voted for the Calm app earlier this yr, she labored with McCormick on the limited-time Sunshine All Goal Seasoning (which was so widespread it generated its personal resale market) and lately turned a New York Occasions with it itself -Greatest Promoting Creator -Assist Ebook Feeding the Soul (as a result of it is my enterprise).
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Jocelyn Martinez is an Affiliate Editor at VegNews and lives in Los Angeles, California.
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