The Red Herring Vegetarian Restaurant

The Red Herring Vegan Restaurant is a hub for good, healthy vegan food, live music, and activism! Now open every M-F 9am-2:30pm + dinner Weds.

The Red Herring Vegetarian Restaurant has been serving the Urbana-Champaign community for over thirty years. It was started by the Channing-Murray Foundation as a way to put Unitarian-Universalist principles into action. We are non-profit, so all the money we make goes back into making the restaurant better for our cooks and customers, and to keeping our prices accessible to folks trying to live a healthy vegetarian lifestyle. Cooperatively run, the Herring serves lunch five days a week from 9am-230pm, and dinner on Wednesdays from 5pm-8pm. We are committed to providing healthier lunch alternatives by cooking from scratch.

Food justice is also important to the Red Herring, so we try to cook with local ingredients whenever possible. We also carry our own Direct Trade Organic Coffee. We understand that leading a healthy lifestyle can be expensive, so we offer folks the opportunity to volunteer in exchange for a meal. This also gives people hands-on kitchen experience! We seek to educate the public about food, including the uses of different vegetables and spices, how to replace animal products in everyday cooking,and various issues of food and environmental justice. All of this takes a LOT of LOVE: from Channing-Murray, from Red Herring Staff, and most importantly from Red Herring volunteers and patrons. We couldn't do it without you!

Tags: Vegetarian & Vegan Restaurant