At Vegan Are Us in Philadelphia’s Chinatown, founder and CEO Sharonda Harris-Bunton serves up plant-based comfort food with a mission to help people live healthier lives.
Popular menu items include vegan chicken and waffles, a shrimp po’ boy made from white yams, the Philly V Steak, and hot bar favorites like General Soul Chicken, mac and cheese, and collard greens.
Harris-Bunton says her love of cooking started in the kitchen with her family. After losing loved ones to health-related issues, that passion evolved into a mission to promote healthier eating.
She built a following through social media cooking shows before opening restaurants in New Jersey and eventually bringing Vegan Are Us to Philadelphia.
Today, she continues that mission through her restaurant and her line of seasonings, juices, smoothies, and alkaline water.
Harris-Bunton plans to open a second Vegan Are Us location in Atlantic City next spring.
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1016-1018 Race St,
Philadelphia, PA 19107
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