As Recommended by:

Moby (Delicious Living Magazine, May 2008)
"Veganism is a way of life for this Grammy-nominated musician - Moby's vegan resources: HappyCow's Vegetarian Guide."
- I use this whenever I travel. It lists just about every vegetarian restaurant and health food store on the planet."

The Wall Street Journal and onlinewsj.com (March 11, 2008)
"Traveling and Eating Vegetarian"
- Happycow.net has a thorough and frequently updated guide to vegetarian restaurants and health-food stores in major cities around the world.

The Beastie Boys
Internationally acclaimed hip hop artists, on their website homepage, beastieboys.com, 2007-2008
- Excellent veg eating resource while traveling.

"'Taxi' Actress Marilu Henner
- Marilu Henner says that when she takes a road trip with her two boys, 11 and 13, she checks in with happycow.com. The Web site has a searchable database of health food stores and restaurants with vegetarian options. "We found soy-cheese pizza at the Grand Canyon," Henner says. (The Kansas Star Newspaper)

Travel Guides

Lonely Planet
- If eating things that used to be alive gives you the heebie jeebies, check out HappyCow's global guide to eating vegetarian anywhere in the world.

Frommer's Travel Guides (March 2005)
"Veggie-Trails: Online Resources for the Meatless Crowd"
- The best, in our humble opinion, is HappyCow, a database of more than 3,500 vegetarian restaurants and health food stores throughout the world. You'll learn here that Bilbao actually has eight 100% meat-free dining establishments. The beef-mecca of Buenos Aires has four, and Happy Cow mentions additional places in three other Argentinean cities as well. North American listings are the most extensive, numbering almost 2,000, but every continent save South America, Africa, and Antarctica shows hundreds of places. For the less orthodox, HappyCow lists vegetarian-friendly restaurants as well.

Let's Go Travel Guides
Traveling with Special Needs: Vegetarians

Hungry? Seattle Family City Guide 2007
Families Eating Vegan in Seattle
- More information on vegan nutrition and vegan dining in Seattle and worldwide is available online at www.HappyCow.Net.

Magazines

VegNews Magazine (November 2007)
WINNER, 2007 Veggie Awards for Favorite Vegetarian Website

VegNews Magazine (November 2006)
WINNER, 2006 Veggie Awards for Favorite Online Travel Resource

VegNews Magazine (August 2006)
WINNER, 2006 Veg Webby Award for Best Restaurant Finder

USA Today (August 2005)
"Hot Sites: Food For Thought"
- On the topic of food... Don't forget the vegetarians. HappyCow is a directory of veggie-friendly restaurants and stores from all round athe world.

Visions Magazine (August 2005)
"Write Your Passion"
- Vegan? Passionate about your animal friendly diet and its influence on the world? Well here's your chance to have your vegan voice heard. HappyCow, the online resource for vegetarian and vegan dining, has partnered with The Blossoming Lotus Restaurant... for a writing contest to hear your ideas on veganism. Titled, "A Vegan World is Possible..."

YogiTimes Magazine (May 2005)
"How Can I Figure out My Metabolic Type?"
- For anyone looking for expanded knowledge about eating vegeatrian, HappyCow's Vegetarian Guide to Restaurants and Health Food Stores is a great resource.

Visions Magazine (March 2005)
"HappyCow: Making the Switch to Meat-Free Diets Easier"
- But what happens when we travel outside our familiar domain? When we find ourselves in unfamiliar places surrounded by nothing but drive-through burger and hotdog joints? We go to HappyCow, a new free resource providing a searchable database to locate healthfood stores and vegetarin restaurants. This helpful website was created by a disilluioned vegetarian traveler back in 1999. Since then its popularity has ascended to include listings in seventy-five countries, making it a prime choice for vegetarians worldwide. Visitors can also submit new listings to be added to the database, so it works from both ends,with businesses receiving more customers.

PC Magazine (October 2004)
"Top 101 Web Sites!"
- This site lists more than 3,000 vegetarian restaurants and health-food stores around the world, from a vegetarian pizzeria in Teheran to a food co-op in Kalamazoo. It also has Barneyesque graphics and a roster of famous vegetarians that claims Carmen Miranda, Leonardo da Vinci, and Hank Aaron.

Utne Reader

Newspapers

The Wall Street Journal and onlinewsj.com (March 11, 2008)
"Traveling and Eating Vegetarian"
- Happycow.net has a thorough and frequently updated guide to vegetarian restaurants and health-food stores in major cities around the world.

The Kansas Star and RedOrbit.com News (September 13, 2007)
"'Taxi' Actress Marilu Henner Made Over Her Diet, and Her Life"
- Marilu Henner says that when she takes a road trip with her two boys, 11 and 13, she checks in with happycow.com. The Web site has a searchable database of health food stores and restaurants with vegetarian options. "We found soy-cheese pizza at the Grand Canyon," Henner says.

The Capital Times (Wisconsin - June 2, 2007)
"Masters of Mapping"
- There are seemingly endless map mashups available on the Web: Chicagocrime.org charts crime information in the city, VegiMaps by HappyCow.net pinpoints vegetarian restaurant locations around the country (www.happycow.net/gmaps/mapintro.html)...
madison.com

Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Washington - May 2, 2007)
"Net Native: When Diners Speak Up, Restaurants Listen"
seattlepi.com

Journal Now (North Carolina - April 4, 2007)
"Vegetarians using web to help find that special someone"

The Baxter Bulletin (Arkansas - April 4, 2007)
"Versatile Vegetarian: spring for a spring roll"
baxterbulletin.com
- This recipe from www.happycow.net makes a tasty, vegan spring roll...

Rutland Herald (Vermont - April 1, 2007)
"SM seeks SF for long walks and lots of leafy greens"

The Washington Post (February 4, 2007)
"Specialty Travel Resources"
- You're out to conquer the world, one vacation at a time. And to help you along the way, we scoped out niche resources covering 10 popular travel categories, from dietary to pet-friendly. We also sought recommendations from experts in each field. Here are umbrella organizations, travel agents, Web sites and phone numbers to help you plan the Next Great Trip.... The Travel page on the Happy Cow's Vegetarian Guide (http://www.happycow.com) includes a guide to vegetarian B&Bs, picks of the world's top five veg-friendly cities and information on health stores and restaurants in 96 countries.

The Journal (West Virginia - January 23, 2007)
"Heart healthful helpings"
- Weaver uses the internet to try and find where vegetarian restaurants are in the area and recipes online. He uses www.HappyCow.com....

Press & Sun Bulletin (New York - August 13, 2006)
"The feeding and care of your vegetarian friends" pressconnects.com
- Remember eating a vegetarian diet can be challenging. Receiving the right amount of protein and vitamins are important for this lifestyle to stay healthy and clear-minded. Visit Happycow.net for more information on nutrition, where to find organic food products, vegetarian restaurants and even more recipes.

Sacramento Bee (California - April 3, 2005)
"Buddhist Flavor in Vegetarian Menu"
- Eric Brent, founder of the http://www.happycow.net Web site, which lists vegetarian restaurants and health food stores worldwide, estimates there are about 300 vegetarian restaurants in California and 1,000 nationwide. He said about 4 percent of the U.S. population is vegetarian... Brent said there's been a sharp increase in the number of vegetarian restaurants in the last few years. He estimated that for every vegetarian restaurant that closes, about three or four open to replace it... Unlike San Francisco, which he called a vegetarian mecca, Sacramento "seems to be more of a fast-food taste, more middle-America than New Age like San Francisco," he said.

Argus Leader (South Dakota - March 9, 2005)
"Vegetarian Dining: The options are growing in Sioux Falls"
- Part of vegetarian dining's attraction is its image of healthier eating. Eric Brent, a spokesman with the Web site http://www.happycow.net/, a database of vegetarian restaurants, says looking at vegetarian dining through a prism of nutrition helps more people accept the way of living. "We avoid the vegetarian-as-religion point of view; we started the site to provide healthy choices and healthy food," Brent says. "It's a difficult market. We see pure vegetarian restaurants open and close in only a few months."

The Washington Post (February 20, 2005)
"Resources for Vegetarian Travel and Dining"
- Happy Cow's Vegetarian Guide to Restaurants and Health Food Stores has listings on every continent.

The New York Times (December 28, 2004)
"Keeping Kosher, and Doing it With Some Style"
- HappyCow.net offers meat-free listings for vegetarians.

The New York Times (August 11, 2002)
"More Options For Vegetarians"
- The HappyCow's Global Guide to Vegetarian Restaurants (and Health Food Stores) offers similar information using a series of symbols (one to three carrots, depending on price) and sometimes has links to the restaurants's web sites.


Television

Bay News 9 (Tampa, Florida - August 9, 2005)
"Extra on the Web: Sites to See"
- Take no offense meat lovers or makers of meaty meals. This Extra on the Web is for those that simply prefer the greens. Bay News 9's Al Ruechel showcases a website that will help the vegetarian in you and create a lot of happy cows. HappyCow.

Radio

KCRW Radio Santa Monica (February 2006)
The Good Food Show: Traveling as a Vegan

Radio Europe Mediterrean (September 8, 2005)
Interview with HappyCow.

GoVeganRadio (July 17, 2005)
- Check out the HappyCow's Vegetarian Guide to Restaurants and Health Food Stores.

Kim Komando Show (November 10, 2004)
"Kool Sites: Just veggies please"
- You don't have to be a vegetarian to enjoy vegetarian cuisine. You'd be surprised how satisfying a meal can be without having meat as the main course. If you'd like to try a vegetarian restaurant, follow the links to your city and state. HappyCow lists prices, reviews and the type of food available. Try something new today. You might like it!

Websites

Vegetarians in Paradise -
24 Carrot Award Recipient (November 2007 - April 2008)
- The premiere website for finding vegetarian places to eat around the world.

WannaVeg (May 2007)
- Veg Travel: Restaurant and Health Food - Our friends at Happycow.net have an excellent resource for vegetarians on the move. The restaurant locater also allows people to post reviews and recommendations. I have personally used this site for my travels in the U.S. and Western/Central Europe. It is an indispensable tool.

Food Site of the Day (January 2005)
- It is our pleasure to feature your site as Friday's Food Site of the Day" Visit the HappyCow's Vegetarian Guide with info on health stores, vegetarian restaurants, healthy cooking tips, recipes, raw living foods, travel and Vegetarian dating.

Zenzibar Alternative Culture (October 2000)
"Site of the Week"
- We liked your site, and wanted to share it with our audience. We're Seven Wonders, and we awarded your site as the Education and Information Site of the Week on July 11, 2000.

... these are just a small handful of what's out there!

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