Vegetarian Restaurants in Downtown Dallas, TX

http://cafebrazil.com/ is downtown (Deep Ellum) and has many vegetarian/vegan options. Also it is very tasty. And they will honor requests (like "can I have that with cheese but no meat," etc.)

I love love http://www.cosmiccafedallas.com/. Great food and definitely a sight to see!

I hopped in the thread to recommend Cosmic Cafe as hillabeans has done. Great food, good atmosphere, and I didn't even get a second look showing up in a suit, looking like a total square.

You are not going to want to walk further than Deep Ellum. It is very easy for Dallasites to underestimate walking distances. That said, I think you're in luck because Dallas http://www.dart.org/maps/printrailmap.asp and you should be close to some rail stops. I know that the Mockingbird and Lovers Lane stations are close to a lot of restaurants, but I'm not sure about vegetarian – maybe someone else knows a good spot near a train stop. You are definitely not going to want to hoof it to Cosmic Cafe. Not close to you by foot.

The https://www.facebook.com/vspotcafedallas?sk=info and the http://www.joshsquash.com/bliss/home.html are both a little outside your area, and are very tasty!

furiousthought is right, guys. Some of these places are literally miles from downtown. I'm really looking for food options downtown. I do not require an entirely vegetarian restaurant- just a place with an option or two, or a decent takeout [Thai, Indian, Chinese, etc.] place, or whatever. I might get up the motivation to figure out the light rail and go somewhere more veggie-friendly if I have a full evening available, but I am mostly concerned with what I can get within 8-12 blocks of my hotel for the nights when I will be exhausted and hungry after my conference is over. I do appreciate the help! Please keep it coming!

Unfortunately I think that the conditions of your question make it nearly un-answerable. There is basically nothing in downtown Dallas. Spiral Diner, Cafe Brazil, and Cosmic are really fantastic, so it is not a matter of Dallas lacking fantastic veggie options. All that said - you won't have a car, and I totally get not wanting to trek out to all these places in a new place while on a trip. Here is what I would do: - make sure my hotel room had a minifridge and a microwave (or even better, a small suite kitchen) -take DART to the Lovers Lane station and go to Central Market, a fancy grocery store a short distance from the station. I would buy my favorite frozen entrees & goodies (expensive, yes - but probably cheaper than eating out), some yummy premade salad / slaw type things, other things from all the food bars, maybe some bread and cheese, other things that require minimal prep, and plenty of snack foods. -while I'm near Lovers, go to Royal Thai. it's nothing special but it's veggie-friendly and I'm already there. -make it out to Cosmic Cafe, even though it will take a really long time to get there without a car. -end up eating at that Chipotle that's downtown. Can you get the same generic food anywhere? Yes. It is still pretty decent and meets your criteria. -ask in my hotel. Be prepared to explain multiple times that I don't have a car, as this is a weird concept. -walk around. Mostly there will be steakhouses. If I eat at one of the steakhouses, it will probably be a salad, but if I find a good steakhouse it will probably be a very good salad.

I absolutely believe that Dallas has fantastic veggie options. I cannot access these options due to my limiting factors, and this does not make my question unanswerable. You answered my question- Chipotle is an answer. I am not sure why it wouldn't be. I am very obviously not aware of what is available in downtown Dallas, and it now sounds like there is at least a Chipotle within a mile of my hotel. That is a bit of a relief, frankly. I am asking for any restaurants downtown that have any veggie protein options. I am not requesting local artisanal tofu; I just need to eat dinner for a few nights. Cafe Brazil looks promising (but there's an expressway between it and my hotel, and it's not always easy to cross an expressway as a pedestrian, so I will just have to see what the route seems to be), and there are other ideas here that I will look into when I get there. Please share any ideas. Generic chains and hole-in-the-wall places are welcome.

aabbbiee, you're going to Midwinter, right? I just went back over my list of committees and vendor lunches and listservs and whatnot and came up with a few veggie options based on what everyone's doing for socials. You could definitely do the same--no need to attend the socials, but you can totally mooch their restaurant ideas! For example, ACRL Women and Gender Section's holding their social at http://www.wildsalsarestaurant.com/, which they consider walking distance and which is specifically noted as having veggie options. (Progressive Librarians is meeting at a place called http://www.jorgestexmex.com/ but it's 1.5 miles away next to a freeway. Veggie options or no, doesn't seem worth it after a long day at Midwinter). Another ACRL group is meeting at https://www.facebook.com/pages/Pho-Colonial-Main-StreetErvay-St-Downtown-Dallas/125050950899551?sk=info also on Main Street/Ervay (I've linked to Facebook because they don't seem to have a website). It's noted for having veggie and vegan options. Note that none of the places I've suggested are next door to the convention center (Anaheim's worse, though!) but I think they're pretty reasonable walks (well under a mile, no walking through freeways, fairly straight paths).