The co-owners of Belse Plant Cuisine in Dallas think everyone should eat vegan. And dinner at this new downtown Dallas restaurant might even appease meat-eaters: The menu includes a cheeseburger, “chicken” piccata, queso, and mac and cheese each made without meat, dairy or other animal products.
Whereas some vegan restaurants focus on careful preparations of vegetables, Belse’s menu reads like a lot of other American-food menus around town. But here, they swap hamburger meat for an Impossible Burger and traditional queso for “cheese” made with chickpea protein and nutritional yeast.
“They thought it was the right time for an upscale plant-based restaurant, and Dallas needed it,” says Belse Plant Cuisine General Manager Alan Macedo, speaking for the co-owners.(Jeffrey McWhorter / Special Contributor)