Crossroads Kitchen is a
vegan
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fine-dining restaurant with locations in
the San Fernando Valley, the
Beverly Grove
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The median household income in 2024 dollars was $119,223, among the highest for Los Angeles and th ...
neighborhood of Los Angeles, and
Las Vegas
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.
History
Crossroads was opened in 2013 in the Beverly Grove neighborhood by chef Tal Ronnen.
According to ''
Los Angeles
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'' magazine, the majority of customers are non-vegan.
In the 2020s the organization opened two additional locations, one in Las Vegas and one in Calabasas, California.
Food
The restaurant has a Mediterranean focus and a small-plates format.
Soy foods such as tempeh and tofu are not offered, as soybeans aren't a Mediterranean product.
Signature dishes include a "seafood" tower
and artichoke "oysters".
Kite Hill cheeses
Ronnen also cofounded Kite Hill, a producer of vegan cheeses.
Reception
In 2013,
Travel + Leisure
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named Crossroads Kitchen one of the best vegetarian restaurants in the U.S.
That same year, Patric Kuh of ''Los Angeles'' magazine critiqued that he wished the restaurant "did more with raw ingredients and, ironically enough, with vegetables," and that the legume dishes lacked inspiration.
In 2014 ''
Relish
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'' named them one of the 15 best vegan and vegetarian restaurants in the U.S.
In 2015,
PETA
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Founded in March 1980 by Newkirk and animal right ...
named them one of the six best vegan fine-dining restaurants in the U.S.
and
BuzzFeed
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named them one of 24 "
bucket list" vegan restaurants.
In 2017, ''
Tasting Table
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'' named Crossroads Kitchen one of the eight best vegan restaurants in the U.S.
and ''
The Daily Meal
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'' named them one of the best vegan restaurants in the United States.
In 2018 ''
USA Today
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'' named them one of the ten best vegan restaurants in the country.
In 2019, Big 7 Travel named them one of 50 best vegan-friendly restaurants in the world.
Oprah Winfrey
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called Crossroads owner and chef
Tal Ronnen "America's best vegan chef" after he "helped her prep for her 21-day vegan challenge, when she also gave up sugar, gluten and alcohol."
''Vogue'' called his cuisine, "as flavorful as it gets."
See also
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List of vegetarian restaurants
This is an incomplete list of vegetarian and vegan restaurants. Vegetarian cuisine refers to food that meets vegetarian standards by not including meat and animal tissue products. For lacto-ovo vegetarianism (the most common type of vegetarian ...
References
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Vegan restaurants in California
2013 establishments in California
Fine dining
Fine dining restaurants in California
Vegan cuisine
Restaurants established in 2013