Fancy Plants Cafe
Cafe · Lakeview East
613 W Briar Pl, Chicago, IL 60657
Highlights
Vegan cafe serving pastries, breakfast, sandwiches, wraps
Vegan cafe serving pastries, breakfast, sandwiches, wraps
"Imagine a coffee shop that doesn’t upcharge customers for non-dairy products. Customers can have that and more at vegan chef Kevin Schuder’s cafe along Briar, just south of the busy Belmont and Broadway intersection. Schuder’s fine dining experiences come through with an assortment of vegan pastries that will have you question if it’s not butter. Be on the look out for the occasional pop-up dinner where Schuder stretches out his legs for a dose of vegan fine dining." - Marla Rose
"Fancy Plants Cafe’s owner Kevin Schuder spent much of the week trying to reach Dom’s and Foxtrot to connect them with the Greater Chicago Food Depository but had no luck, and he expressed particular frustration after reports that workers were instructed to throw away food rather than donate it." - Ashok Selvam
"Fancy Plants Cafe, Schuder’s tiny Lakeview restaurant, is temporarily closed while the chef concentrates on Lincoln Park. Schuder yearned for a larger playground for his experiments, regularly holding pop-up dinners that showcased his talents for plated meals." - aimee.levitt
"Despite his elaborate multicourse dinners spotlighting cuisines from around the world — think Japanese, Greek, Korean, Italian, Spanish, and Burmese — with dishes ranging from housemade kimchi and spanakopita to mazeman (no-broth ramen), it’s chef Kevin Schuder’s burger that might actually make people sit up and take notice. Which is all the more ironic as the burger, like all the food Schuder makes at Lakeview’s Fancy Plants Cafe, is vegan." - Lisa Shames
"Walk-in diners would have a better chance at Fancy Plants Cafe, the vegan restaurant on Briar and Broadway." - Ashok Selvam
