​Freshcraft, which opened in 2010 on Blake Street, has earned nods from us for having a fantastic bottled beer list, and we've been looking at the myriad vegetarian options on the menu for quite some time, but we only managed to make it to the craft-beer-and-fresh-food joint this past Monday night. The bar was full, and a screen displaying a basketball game dominated the back part of the restaurant; we were perfectly comfortable at a roomy booth for four.

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​Karma Asian is small, tucked into the middle of a block on a busy stretch of Broadway, but the menu encompasses a pan-Asian theme with options from Vietnam, China, Japan and Thailand. And almost everything on Karma's menu is already vegetarian/vegan or can be made with tofu and veggies, so do yourself a favor and take a look at the menu online before you go, because that kind of choice can be overwhelming for those of us who usually only have one or two options at any given restaurant.

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​We've written before about the vegetarian food at Elway's Downtown, 1881 Curtis Street. The restaurant remains one of our favorite (and least obvious) places to grab a bite to eat in the area -- you wouldn't think a steakhouse would cater so well to vegetarians, but this one does. In 2011, the joint also won a Best Of Denver award for Best Sushi in a Non-Sushi Restaurant, so we stopped by to see what the sushi chefs could do with a no-fish roll.

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​The Denver Tech Center location of Fourleaf Chopped Salads isn't particularly convenient; it's tucked away in a strip mall off the I-25 frontage road and located a little below street level, so it's easy to miss. And the hours of operation -- 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on weekdays only -- are not that convenient, either.

Still, when we stopped by Monday for lunch, there was a line stretching out the door. And then we found that there was a good reason for that: These salads are delicious.

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​Mecca Grill, 270 South Downing Street, won a Best of Denver award in 2010 for "Best Lamb That Mary Would Have Liked" -- but lamb is far from all that's on the menu at this mini-mall storefront. As that award noted, the music choice is a little bizarre (when we stopped in, wildly improvisational jazz flooded the speakers), and the service can take a while, but the food is undeniably worth it.

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​The bistro at the Tony's Market at 950 Broadway is a sweet little restaurant tucked inside a busy gourmet grocery store. You might not expect such a place to cater to vegetarian and vegan needs -- but you'd be wrong. The staff is well-versed in food preferences -- and they even have the ability to denote allergies on their POS system to insure that potential allergens don't cross-contaminate your food.

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​The year started off lovingly for this Veggie Girl, and throughout weeks and weeks of eating somewhere different, there were lots of great dishes that stood out. Here, in chronological order, are the ten best meals I ate this year.

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​We've lauded the lunch buffet at Little India in our annual Best of Denver issue more than once. Although you might think that one Indian-food buffet is pretty much like any other, Little India's stands out for a couple of reasons: It's refilled frequently with a wide variety of food -- and most of that food is delicious.

There are four Little India locations across the metro area; our favorite lunch stop is at 330 East Sixth Avenue, perhaps Little India's most popular buffet.

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​It's not easy to find a good veggie burger when you're off the meat wagon, but thankfully, Smashburger -- a homegrown chain whose burgers have garnered rave reviews since it opened its first location on Colorado Boulevard in 2007, and which was recently listed as a rising-star company in Forbes -- now carries a black-bean burger that's smashed on the grill just like its beefy counterparts. (Fair warning: The black-bean patties are cooked on the same grill as the beef burgers, and allergen information on dairy and egg are not currently available on the website, so strict vegans should avoid it, and strict-ish vegetarians might want to consider the burger-grease factor when ordering.)

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​Sure, it's freezing outside today, but tomorrow, it's supposed to be back to a more mellow thirty-some degrees, which means it's a good time to head to Fifth Avenue and Santa Fe Drive, where the Vegan Van -- along with a handful of other food trucks -- parks for a few hours during lunchtime to serve its plant-based street food to the masses. (This Wednesday the van is skipping the lunch, but you can catch it on Saturday and Sunday at various locations.)

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