Baba's Vegan Cafe
Vegan restaurant · Chesterfield Square ·
Jamaican-style veggie patties, soul platters, and vegan baked goods
Jamaican-style veggie patties, soul platters, and vegan baked goods
"After eight years of running a plant-based catering company, owners Baba Wo’se Kofi and Lauren “Anu” Wolley Ross built a brick-and-mortar shop in the Historic Crenshaw District. The two combined their skills—yoga, social work, community service for Lauren, and years of culinary experience at Stuff I Eat for Baba—to create a vegan powerhouse. It’s now a place to eat BBQ tofu, lentil fritters, potato chowder, and chocolate cake slathered in cashew frosting. The specialty here is the vegan veggie patties—a Jamaican-style dish sold by the dozen, and stuffed with curry potato, cabbage, sweet yam, savory hibiscus, and more." - kat hong
"After years of running a plant-based catering company, the owners of Baba’s Vegan Cafe opened a brick-and-mortar restaurant in the Historic Crenshaw District a few years back. It’s now a vegan powerhouse for the neighborhood—a place to eat fried oyster mushroom sandwiches, lentil fritters, and patty melts made with their speciality: Jamaican-style vegan veggie patties. They’re sold by the dozen and stuffed with fillings like curry potato, cabbage, sweet yam, savory hibiscus, and more." - garrett snyder, sylvio martins
"Baba’s Vegan Cafe specializes in the kind of plant-based food that doesn’t pretend to be meat. And their rainbow-colored welcome plate has every kind of crunchy or creamy sensation you could possibly want in a plate of food. It’s essentially a vegan soul food sampler platter reworked with notably fresh vegetables, and it’s one of our favorite meals in South LA. The plate comes with baked mac and cheese topped with crispy fried cauliflower, plump black beans with rice, crunchy lentil fritters, and collard greens. They also serve Jamaican patties, smoothies, and a bunch of other healthy stuff on the menu." - nikko duren, kat hong
"After years of running a plant-based catering company, the owners of Baba’s opened a brick-and-mortar restaurant in the Historic Crenshaw District. It’s now a vegan powerhouse for the neighborhood—a place to eat BBQ tofu, lentil fritters, potato chowder, and chocolate cake slathered in cashew frosting. The specialty here is the vegan veggie patties—a Jamaican-style dish sold by the dozen and stuffed with fillings like curry potato, cabbage, sweet yam, and stewed hibiscus." - Sylvio Martins, Garrett Snyder
"Opened by chef, artist, and activist Wo’se Kofi in Gramercy Park, this South LA vegan cafe features Jamaican patties and a rotating “welcome plate” that changes daily and can include items like mac salad, dirty rice, and red cabbage." - Cathy Chaplin