The city is teeming with pop-up restaurants, food trucks, and other temporary eateries of all stripes, and while New Yorkers have taken to the trend and many have ordered the "Hunter's Plate" consisting of porky pig parts at hot-spot What Happens When, a prominent subset has been neglected: vegans. But no more! At least, no more this weekend, when the Soy in the City crowd can celebrate the emergence of Wildflower, "a one-of-a-kind crowd-funded pop-up restaurant that will be bringing 28 courses of the finest plant-based cuisine all with a summer grilling motif."
Acclaimed vegan chef Ayinde Howell, Wildflower will provide patrons with an option of 28 animal flesh and by-product free dishes inspired by soul food, street food, and raw fusion cuisine. But vegans or the vegan-curious (or even the omnivores that end up getting dragged to these kinds of things with their vegan friends) should act quick if they want to taste Howell's "Mac & Yease", "Fire-Kissed Tempeh Chimichurri", "Quinoa Nachos" or "Rum Spiked Pralines", because "just like the short-lived beauty of blossoming annuals in the field, Wildflower is here today and gone tomorrow." Wildflower will be here June 10th and gone by June 12th; they're taking reservations now; prices range from $30 for Sunday brunch to $65 for the "Gluten-Free Raw Food" dinner!
Wildflower at LTO (Limited Time Only), 171 East Broadway
