Day 7 - Downtown San Fran and Vegan fine dining!

One happy vegan!!


We stayed in a hotel on the edge of Chinatown last night and spent our day exploring more of downtown San Fran today. We made our way to the Metreon Farmers Market and tried to find Souley Vegan who are known for their all vegan southern food. Unfortunately they're only there certain days so tomorrow we'll try again.

We ended up heading to Wholefoods again where I grabbed another amazing vanilla vegan donut and some potato salad made with Veganaise - yum! We cruised around the shops for a bit and checked out all the stores we don't have back home like Old Navy and Urban Outfitters.

But the highlight of the day had to be our dinner at Mellennium, a vegan fine dining restaurant on Geary Street. Even though we're on a super tight budget and this place cost what we'd budgeted for food for two days, it was worth every cent! We definitely recommend trying Mellennium if you ever make it to San Fran, you don't need to be a vegan to enjoy this amazing experience.

The meal was perfection, the flavours intense and the service and atmosphere just made the whole night out one we'll always remember. We went for the 3 course set menu and had an entree, main and dessert. The meals were all a decent size which isn't always the case with fine dining experiences. The meals were made of fresh, locally grown produce from farmers markets and so much care had been put into planning the menu and combinations of flavours.

Unfortunately I didn't take notes on what each of our meals were and the photos aren't all that great but who has time for photoshop touchups while on holiday!


City's entree: Tempura Zuchinni


Chris' entree: soup


City's dessert: dark chocolate cheesecake with vanilla gelato


Chris' dessert: almond shortcake with berries


I apologise for the lack of cupcake related stuff on the blog at the moment. We've been pretty slack at taking photos and I actually haven't eaten many vegan cupcakes on the trip! Hopefully that'll change when we hit Chicago!