La Veggie! Deli Café Offers Must-Taste Dishes

Most of the people have chosen to eat meat and seafood rather than vegetables. They want something to cook out of meat. It is just like a sacrifice for them to forbid themselves from eating meat.  However, if doctors prohibit from eating meat and seafood, they would have no choice but only to obey their rules.

No worries about missing meat and seafood from your plates because there is a place for you! It is at a pure vegan vegetarian café named La Veggie! Deli Café.It sounds like an elegant Spanish type of café but if you go there, the interior design of the food outlet is “eco-friendly-type” .

It is air-conditioned and has a comfortable environment with its green, fresh feel. La Veggie Deli Cafe offers food at very affordable prices starting from P35 to P75. it is located at the ground floor of Wellnessland Health Institute, along 314-C Sikatuna Street, Zapatera, Cebu City. It started operation last November, 2012.

The name, La Veggie! Deli Café, gives you the hint what type of foods they catered in –vegetables!. “La”  in english means “wow!”  while “veggie” is a shorter english slang for vegetables.

La Veggie! Deli Café is operated by the La Veggie Society, a vegetarian family who cooks and prepares vegetarian foods. They are also living the vegetarian way of life.

“La also stands for Lalita Araneta because she is the main personality who inspires La Veggie!” said Rene Araneta, proprietor of La Veggie! Deli Café and husband of Lalita Araneta.

Lalita Araneta is a Filipino-vegetarian chef from Abu Dhabi. She trained from Europe for macrobiotic and raw food. She is enthusiastic in cooking all kinds of dishes and from this interest, she makes her own vegetarian menu. She has a lot of original vegetarian menus and her first-class cooking techniques includes desserts and pastries.

“I decided not to go back abroad because I think it’s about time to share and educate Cebuanos in acquiring healthy lifestyle”, Lalita said.

She said that we actually do not need a doctor to be healed (even doctors choose healthy lifestyle), instead, help ourselves to stay healthy and live in a healthy way. “If we just know how to appreciate a healthy lifestyle, we may attain a longer life and innocuous remedy from diseases.”She said.

“My vision is to accommodate Cebuanos and make it international. It is just starting. We are looking forward to have another branch of La Veggie! Deli Café to serve Cebuanos and give them foods that they have been looking for.” she added.

The place is indeed a haven for those who are willing to acquire a healthy lifestyle. Every food that they serve is tantamount to a person’s healthy life, a rather natural choice.

“I think my expertise is the credibility of my café. Taste my foods and they will not regret”, she enclosed.

The café offers amazing foods. They serve guilt-free, meat-like and meat-taste vegetarian foods like vegetarian Dinuguan, which they call “Beanuguan”, Vegetarian Barbecue, and other Filipino dishes. These dishes are made out of healthy ingredients.

Aside from Filipino dishes, they also served different cuisines such as Arabic, Lebanese and Indian foods in the form of vegetarian-based ingredients.

La Veggie Deli Cafe also serves vegetarian frozen foods, canned goods, and veggie meats;  offers catering services and deliveries but in limited areas only.

The cafe have scheduled a series of cooking demonstrations and their two upcoming sessions of vegetarian cooking demos are slated on April 13 and 27, 2013. The sessions are entitled: “How to Prepare Healthy Vegetarian Vegan Dishes” and “How to Prepare a Healthy Vegetarian Breakfast and Dinner Delights”.

You can like their Facebook fan page at La Veggie Society or email them at  laveggie_society@yahoo.com. You may also contact them thru landline (032) 254-0339 and mobile phones (globe) 0916-5416264 and (sun) 09335211391 then look for Mr. Rene Araneta or Mrs. Lalita Araneta.