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Crossroads Kitchen

Tal Ronnen's plant-based fine-dining restaurant — original Melrose Avenue location in LA, plus Calabasas and Las Vegas. Mediterranean-leaning menu, full-service bar, served as the proof that plant-based cuisine could occupy the high-end restaurant tier at the level of any conventional restaurant in the city.

What they do

Crossroads Kitchen is Tal Ronnen’s plant-based fine-dining restaurant — Mediterranean-leaning menu, full-service bar, the kind of room you take a date to rather than a salad you eat to be virtuous. Locations on Melrose Avenue (the original), Calabasas, and Las Vegas. Ronnen is one of the most prominent chefs in the plant-based world; he also co-founded [[miyokos-creamery|Miyoko’s Creamery]] and wrote The Conscious Cook.

Why it’s listed

The plant-based fine-dining tier has always been the hardest to crack — convincing diners with real money to pay restaurant-tier prices for vegetables-only menus required someone to do it first, at full-service-restaurant production value, and survive. Crossroads has held the LA flagship position since 2013. [[directory|The directory]] cares because making plant-based work at every dining tier (fast-casual through fine-dining) is part of how a values-aligned restaurant economy actually becomes the default.

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  • Shares approach with: [[miyokos-creamery]]
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  • Contained by: [[los-angeles-basin]]

Sources

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Practical

shares approach with

  • Oleana two of the most-recognized US restaurants whose menus advance the case for locally-sourced, vegetable-forward dining at the upper service tier

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