Lion’s Choice announces that a plant-based option will be coming to its restaurant’s menus this fall. For the first time in the chain’s 55-year history, the St. Louis staple has partnered with Hungry Planet, a St. Louis-based company dedicated to creating chef-crafted, plant-based meats, for its new Plant-Based Meatball Sub. Before Lion’s Choice launches the Plant-Based Meatball Sub across all 33 restaurant locations in St. Louis, Kansas City, and parts of Illinois this fall, St.