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CAA's Fifth Annual Banquet

Come celebrate over ten years of animal advocacy by attending CAA's annual banquet on April 9th!

Meet other animal advocates, share delicious vegan food and drinks, and participate in a fantastic silent auction!

Show your support by:

• Attending the banquet. There is a suggested donation of $35 per person, $30 per person for two adults or more, and $15 per child, but any level of a contribution is appreciated. You can RSVP online, or contact Unny, at unny@exploreveg.org. An RSVP is required by March 13th to attend the event.
• Inviting supportive friends, family, and associates to this fun evening.
• Volunteering to prepare food, serve food, or help clean up. For more information, contact Unny Nambudiripad at unny@exploreveg.org.

Learn more about this festive occasion.

Get FREE Vegan Food for Your Non-Vegan Gathering

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If you would like to get food for an event in Minnesota, or help organize one, e-mail CAA at info@exploreveg.org. For more information and an application form, visit VegFund.Org.

Restaurant Review: Midori's Floating World Cafe

By Tori Farbisz

Midori's Floating World Cafe is a Japanese restaurant in Minneapolis with a large menu and plenty of vegan options. Midori's will show you that Japanese food isn't all fish and rice - they offer everything from vegan tempura to big bowls of soba noodles. The waiters are attentive, and very accommodating to vegan needs. And, although the restaurant is small and cozy, they had no problem accommodating our group of eight.

Although Japanese cuisine is known for using fish in just about everything, Midori's does a wonderful job preparing great, vegan meals. A big bowl of steamy edamame sprinkled with course salt is my favorite starter, even with the large selection of hot and cold appetizers on the menu. To drink, I had one of the cafe's beautiful "art teas". Whole flowers bloom in the bottom of large, clear mugs to create a flavorful and appealing drink. For my main course, I ordered the vegetarian sushi dinner, which included ten pieces of rolled sushi, six pieces of nigiri sushi, salad, and a shiitake broth soup.

Though everything I tried was delicious, if you just can't decide, get one of their bento boxes. You can get them with vegan tempura and sushi, and they all come with soup, Japanese pickles, salad and a few other things.

Other than the sushi and bento boxes there are udon and soba noodles, donburi, onigiri, soups, salads, and, if you still have room, desserts.

Midori's Floating World Cafe is open for lunch and dinner Tuesday through Saturday, and dinner on Sunday. They close at 2pm after lunch and reopen at 5pm for dinner, and are closed on Mondays. If you've been to Midori's before, don't get confused: they just changed locations, but the new one is only a few hundred feet from the old.

For a great place to experience a wonderful Japanese meal, I highly recommend Midori's.

Midori's Floating World Cafe
2629 East Lake Street
Minneapolis, MN 55406