Guy and Tali Vaknin – Owners of Beyond Sushi
Dear friends,
We’re proud and happy to announce that our third location will open its doors this Friday, November 7th, 2014. The new location is 62 West 56th Street.
Green Machine Roll.
Please help us spread the word and share the press release below. We hope to see you at our new location soon!
xoxo,
Beyond Sushi Midtown West Press Release
Katherine shared her thoughts on The Seed Experience and the cooking demo with Chef Guy 🙂
Beyond Sushi recently catered to our first wedding ever back in June. David and Karla’s wedding took place in the beautiful space of The Foundry located in Long Island City. Both of them are longtime vegan, so a vegan wedding was a must!
Our mission was to help make their big day a perfect celebration by serving beautiful and delicious food. With that in mind, we brought some of our best comforting, healthy food to the wedding: A Beyond Sushi live station, a Mediterranean station, passing hors d’oeuvres, salad, entree, and passing desserts.
Hola!
It is time to reveal our roll and piece for the month of May. Chef Guy was greatly inspired by Mexican cuisine while creating the monthly special, so we have lots of heat going on in both stores right now.
Roll and piece of May.
Aren’t these scrumptious pieces like a fiesta on a roll? Don’t worry if you’re not familiar with the ingredients in the special roll and piece because we dedicate this blog post just for the explanation.
What is chayote?
This is probably the one question that we got asked the most! Chayote is a popular ingredient in Latin American and Mexican cuisine. It’s related to the cucumber and zucchini with a mild and somewhat sweet flavor. Fun fact: Like the tomato, chayote is actually a fruit that is used as a vegetable. Chayote is also known as alligator pear and mango squash. In term of nutritions, chayote has no cholesterol or fat, extremely low in sodium and calorie. The fruit is a great source of dietary fiber and vitamins. The fiber in chayote helps to avoid hypertension and cardiovascular risk by lowering blood lipids and keeping arteries clear.
How about jicama?
Jicama is also named Mexican yam or Mexican turnip. First a native plant in Mexico, the Spaniards spread its cultivation to the Philippines, China then to the rest of Southeast Asia. Â Like other fruits and vegetables, jicama is full of healthful minerals and vitamins, especially vitamin C. With its high content of vitamin C, this root vegetable is great for boosting the immune system. Jicama hardly has any fat and is very low in sodium, so it’s a great food for weight loss. Plus, the soluble fiber in jicama is excellent for lowering cholesterol and helps to stabilize blood sugar levels.
Both chayote and jicama are versatile ingredients that you can make soup, stew, and salad with. Try this Chayote with Tomato and Green Chile recipe for a quick and simple dish (leave the cheese to make it vegan though). If you’ve never eaten jicama before, definitely give this Jicama Fries a try!
Not in the mood for cooking? No worries. Stop by our stores this month and enjoy these tasty vegetables. They will be in store until the end of May.
Hope to see you soon!
Happy Earth Day, everyone!
Today (and every other day), don’t forget to take actions to protect and preserve our planet. Those small acts together can make bigger impacts than we think! In case you want to learn more about how to transform your daily lifestyle to a greener and more sustainable one, join us at NYC Green Festival this weekend!
What is Green Festival?
In short, Green Festival is America’s largest and longest-running sustainability and green living event! This year, Green Festival will start in New York City, then move to other big cities such as Washington D.C., Los Angeles, Chicago, and San Francisco.
The festival in NYC will be on April 26 and 27 at Pier 94. The event will start from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. both days. Exhibitors and vendors across the country will be showcasing their green products that doesn’t hurt the Earth. Besides, great speakers and performances are also part of the festival.
Beyond Sushi, with our delicious food, will be waiting for you in the food court. We also have some complimentary tickets for you to grab. To claim your tickets, please do so in advance! Go to http://www.greenfestivals.org/exhibit-ticket and use EX014GF at checkout.
In addition, please consider voting for us at the Brand Award! The voting process is super easy and simple. It will literally take 2 minutes! Click here to vote for us.
That’s everything for today’s blog post! Until next time.
– Beyond Sushi Team.
Hello friends, We want to announce one very exciting news today…
Our new website is now LIVE!
What makes our new site so exciting? Read away!
Last Friday,Tali and Guy from Beyond Sushi stopped by The Couch to do a sushi demo with Carolina Bermudez and John Elliott!
If you missed the segment, don’t fret. We have it right here for you.  Enjoy 🙂
The first of April brings such a beautiful day in New York City. The sun is out with warmer temperatures. Flowers are about to bloom in the Union Square park. One can only hope this forever winter is about to end! Why not start your April right with our new roll and piece?
Read away to see what we have this month! Mushroom fans will definitely be in love 😉
April Roll
Our roll of the month includes black rice, roasted portabella, enoki mushroom, grilled oyster mushrooms marinated with balsamic and thyme. Topped with micro chives. The roll comes with balsamic truffle porcini sauce and is dusted with smoked paprika. Come try this earthy roll. If you love mushrooms, this one is for you!
April piece
Moving on to our little beautiful April piece! This baby has black rice, garlic infused mushrooms, braised in Marsala wine sauce. It comes with a balsamic truffle porcini sauce and micro chives.
Our April roll and piece are now available in both stores. If you’re in the Union Square area, don’t forget that we deliver!
See you next time 😉
Melanie from Little Word Bites had a short review about us and NYCVFF!
Lines and biodegradable droppings of miniature spoons and cups always pointed toward delicious foods. Just beyond – sprout salads and seitan bacon.
New York City experienced its fourth vegetarian and vegan nirvana this month, when the NYC Vegetarian Food Festival took over the Metropolitan Pavilion on March 1 and 2nd.
Filling two floors with delicious and innovative vendors, multiple stages featuring guest speakers and culinary demonstrations, and active members of the vegetarian community, the festival was one of the city’s events I have looked most forward to since arriving.
As expected, there were a handful of familiar brands – Taft Foodmasters had a lavish display for their vegan seitan gyro, and Gardein was cooking up hundreds of samples of their Crispy Mandarin Orange Chick’n (which was regrettably too orange-y, not at all crispy- and with a texture not unlike the packaging itself).
But, as is always the case…
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Hi vegheads,Â
Many apologies for the late announcement of the March roll and piece on the blog. The roll and piece have been in our stores for a few days already. We were just so busy with the NYC Vegetarian Food Festival last weekend. To sum everything up shortly: It was an amazing event with amazing people! We were so overwhelmed with all the positive feedback and support from everyone. Our entire menu was sold out both days! We can’t wait for next year’s event. Shout out to the organizers who put together a very well-planned event. Â
Back to our roll and piece announcement, if you haven’t had a chance to stop by, here they are. Spoiler alert: There’s a kale theme going on here.Â
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For the Roll of the Month, we have black rice, dehydrated kale, roasted sunchoke, and marinated carrots. The roll is topped with Cajun kale chip and sweet green peas mint sauce. The kale chip has a tiny bit of heat just enough to spice it up.Â
If you’re not familiar with sunchoke, this root vegetable looks like ginger with the taste of potato. Sunchoke (a.k.a Jerusalem artichoke) is a great food to prevent colon cancer. Other than that, it helps lower blood pressure and decrease blood cholesterol. There are tons of health benefits of these little guys that we will cover in our future blog posts. Stay tuned for more!
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Ingredients of this lovely piece are noted in the photo! And as always, deliciousness is guaranteed.
Now that you know what we have for March, come by our stores and check them out! They will be in store until the end of month.Â
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