The Dancing Dog Eatery and Juicery to Open Next Week

By Ariell Carter-Cameron on October 13, 2014

http://www.dancingdogeatery.com

In about a week, there should be a new place to eat in Urbana. The Dancing Dog Eatery and Juicery is a vegan restaurant that is set to open Oct. 20, 2014, which is next week if everything goes as planned.

According to their website, they plan to offer a “casual dining environment and meat-free dining options” for the Champaign-Urbana area. They also strive to have the “freshest, organic, and locally grown ingredients possible.”

The restaurant will be open for breakfast, lunch and dinner, six days a week with a Sunday brunch.

As a vegan restaurant, it offers no meat options. The restaurant will be using tofu, bean curd, seitan or wheat gluten and tempeh, which is a soy product. They claim their food has all the great taste minus the meat and even dairy. (Vegans choose not to consume dairy as well as meat because they avoid all products tested on animals, derived from animals or made from the suffrage of animals.)

 The owners, Brian Behrns and Linda Lehovec, are both vegans and the idea for the restaurant stemmed from that. In an article by the News-Gazette, they state though they have been vegans for the past five years, and vegetarians prior to that, they found it hard to stay within their diet while eating out and wanted to remedy that for others.

Though not yet open, the restaurant has been quite communicative with future patrons via its Facebook page. They have been polling its social network followers on their likes and dislikes as well as sharing the progress of the restaurant with updates and pictures.

The restaurant announced Mel Domanski as their executive chef back in July, who was previously baking at Strawberry Fields. With her in tow, their menu options will span from Eggplant parmesan to their vegan version of grilled cheese.

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