Soca Vegan Kitchen brings Trinidadian cuisine with vegan twist | Community

Bringing her home nation of Trinidad to the CSRA, Georgia Alexander desired to carry a area for vegans wherever enjoyable meals is the amount 1 precedence.

Soca Vegan Kitchen area, a new vegan cafe opening June 30 at 630 Crane Creek Push in Augusta, brings Caribbean flavors to the community.

Alexander was introduced to veganism in 2018 following her second being pregnant and was in search of the health advantages. Because then, she adopted the vegan way of living, but discovered a absence of fulfilling restaurant solutions for her requirements.

“The whole vegan way of life for me came about and the moment I adopted that into my having regimen, I went out as well,” she stated. “I like to try to eat out a great deal, and I normally favored to take in out a whole lot and I like to consume at great sites and I like to take in good food items.

“And I could by no means come across any place that served or experienced a important vegan menu for people today like myself and of program, you can have a salad. Vegan people really don’t want to eat just a salad. We want food items. We want authentic food stuff.”

“I really don’t want one thing that is vegetable and appears like and preferences like meat. I really do not motivation the taste of the meat merchandise or any animal goods. And that is what direct me to this precise restaurant that we are opening,” Alexander claimed.

Alexander and her mother Diane, who will be the head chef with in excess of 50 several years of cooking knowledge, established the restaurant based on their shared Trinidadian society. The dishes will contain natural herbs and spices to make dishes devoid of the use of dairy or meat dietary supplements like tofu or Extremely hard meat.

“We are bringing something that was never ever there prior to. A large amount of individuals are acquiring bored with what is now available, so it really is commonly the very same detail, even when you are chatting about vegan meals. There are a ton of issues like vegan tofu, soy dependent style foods and different items like Past Burger, Over and above Meats, stuff like that,” Alexander explained. “Pretty substantially [you] are not receiving a assortment of diverse menu objects and factors you can do with common organic food items that you didn’t have to make into a thing.”

She is wanting ahead to filling a area of interest inside of the vegan and community restaurant field in the CSRA.

“We want to make guaranteed that the consistency in the foodstuff high quality and every little thing that we are heading to offer to our clients, that it speaks for by itself. That when you get here and sit down and have a food, that you are pleased and filled,” Alexander said. “…when you go to the frequent dining places and they have some goods on the menu that could, that are or could be vegan, that it’s genuinely not sufficient at all. Like it truly is an afterthought, so my hope is that the food stuff that we are presenting is that a large amount of people get it well.”

“I truly feel pretty happy,” Alexander mentioned. “I truly feel pretty satisfied that I was in a position to use what I know and in fact appear into a little something that turned out to not be accessible and one thing people today actually want.”

To learn extra about the cafe, visit their web site or social media web pages.

Samantha Winn handles the metropolis of North Augusta, with a target on federal government and community oriented company. Adhere to her on Twitter: @samanthamwinn and on Fb and Instagram: @swinnnews.