VegNews - Spring 2026: The Best Of Vegan Issue, 195 Food & Travel Award Winners, The Top Plant-Based Restaurants In America, Meatless In Mexico City,

The 2026 Best of Vegan Issue is filled with the best plant-based products, recipes, food trends, vegan personalities, media, and so much more.

More of what’s inside:

• Way Beyond Burgers
  Beef, chicken, pork-been there, done that. Today's innovation is all about lamb kebabs, bluefin tuna toro, and mammoth meatballs.
• Here Comes The Vegan Housewife
  Slutty Vegan founder Pinky Cole talks building her vegan empire, coming back from rock bottom, and her newest gig: The Real Housewives of Atlanta.
• The 2026 VegNews Veggie Awards
  From the tastiest vegan cookies to plant-powered celebrities and must-visit locales, these are the best vegan products, people, and places of the year.
• The VegNews Restaurant Awards
  After nearly 250 nominees and tens of thousands of votes, VegNews readers have spoken. These are the best vegan restaurants in America.
• Serve. Savor. Repeat.
  Impress your dinner guests with creamy carbonara, vegan seafood paella, and lemon ricotta cheesecake.
• The New Pork Playbook
  Savor the smoky, complex flavors of plant-based bacon and pulled pork with a little help from MyForest Foods.
• Better Together
  These taste-tested snacks prove there's no pairing, more indulgent (or iconic) than chocolate and peanut butter.
• Mole & Modernity in Mexico City
  Culture, art, and vegan tacos abound in Mexico City.
• Sazon Without Sacrifice
  Revel in a plant-based tour of Puerto Rico.
• VegMedia
  Our favorite cookbooks you can't miss
• Turning Down The Heat
  VegNews Chef of the Year Aaron Adams Casañas shares how keeping it calm and cool in the kitchen is making his restaurant hotter than ever
• 24 Hours In Paris
  From vegan cheese and viennoiserie to Senegalese stew and Japanese ramen, Paris is the plant-based destination this spring.