Seeds In The News…
The new restaurant will join Envegan and Clean Juice in Modera Reynoldstown in 2022.
Sophia Marchese and Reid Trapani, the team behind Latin food-inspired vegan pop-up Happy Seed, are opening their first restaurant, La Semilla, in Reynoldstown next year.
Set to open in spring 2022 in the Modera Reynoldstown building, La Semilla will offer several popular dishes from the Happy Seed menu, as well as “reimagined Latin American dishes that highlight locally-grown ingredients and the endless possibilities of plant-based cuisine” and a “thoughtfully crafted beverage program.”
The pandemic has served the pop-up model well. These roving restaurants, bakeries, taquerias and supper clubs allow chefs to try out nascent ideas and passion projects at a reduced cost, and with flexible hours. Here are three worth checking out.
Food Expert and Blogger, Skye Estroff, lists Happy Seed as one of the top pop-ups around the city.
Vegan pop-up Happy Seed serves a Latin-inspired menu from chef Reid Trapani and his crew. Dishes from this pop-up include in-season squash empanadas, tamales with sweet potato masa and black beans, esquites (street corn), and king oyster mushroom carnitas enchiladas.
Why she inspires us: Sophia is bringing delicious, healthy, plant-based eating to plates everywhere with her company, Happy Seed.
At Chef Reid Trapani’s Happy Seed vegan pop up in Atlanta last week it was hard to get a seat—-and most of the guests were not full-time vegans. Says Trapani, who specializes in inventive authentic Latin dishes using plant based ingredients, “so many of our guests tell us they’d eat like this all the time.”
Recent menu offerings have included black bean tamales made with sweet potato and corn masa, Plant Nachos topped with black beans, chipotle charred corn and salsa verde, and a plant-based crunch wrap stuffed with beef seitan, vegan nacho cheese, crunch tostada, lettuce, tomato and cashew sour cream.