Author and activist Mickey Z. will be the key-note speaker at this Sunday's Veggie Pride Parade. The parade begins at 11am in the West Village; he'll take the stage at 1pm in Union Square, where the parade ends. There will be additional speakers sharing the stage to educate the masses about the benefits of a veg diet but my vote goes to Mickey for being the most bad ass of the lot.

Mickey's books include The Murdering of My Years: Artists and Activists Making Ends Meet, 50 American Revolutions You're Not Supposed to Know: Reclaiming American Patriotism, and Self Defense for Radicals: A to Z Guide for Subversive Struggle--and he's published by some of the edgiest indie publishers around, such as Soft Skull Press, Disinformation Company, and PM Press. Oh, and Newsday called Mickey Z. a "professional iconoclast" and Time Out New York has referred to him as a "political provocateur."

SuperVegan: Well hello there Mr. Fancy Pants. How did you end up being the key-note speaker at this year's parade?

Mickey Z.: Wow, that's funny because I'm the furthest thing from fancy pants. I tend to wear my clothes until they fall off me. Anyway, I've known parade founder Pamela Rice for many years and she invited me to speak at the 2009 event. I ended up going on very late and reaching a much smaller crowd but Pamela said I still "stole the show." This year, well... I guess I got bumped all the way to the front of the line.

It's been a while since I last bragged about adding restaurants to our awesome NYC Vegan Restaurant Guide, so I figured a post doing just that was due.

Brooklyn

• Sunac Natural Food
• Willburg Cafe
• Am-Thai Chili Basil Kitchen
• Tao Palate (Spawn of Wild Ginger!)
• Vegetarian Ginger
• Boneshakers (Awesome Vegan-friendly Cafe!)
• Kush Cafe
• Caserta Vecchia (Cheesy Brick Oven Vegan Pizza!)
• Tofu on 7th
• New Green House

Manhattan

• The Cafe at 5C
• Lula's Sweet Apothecary (Wipes drool!)
• Community Food & Juice
• Dirt Candy (Vegetables cooked up fancy by ex-Pure Food & Wine chef.)
• Tawaa
• Dumpling Man
• Sympathy for the Kettle
• Moshe's Falafel
• Luxee
• Neighburrito
• T Salon at Chelsea Market
• Sal Anthony's City Gardener (Check it out raw foodies!)
• Soy & Sake (Bootleg Red Bamboo)

Queens

• Linda's Organic Kitchen & Market
• Peking Duck Forest
• Queens Health Emporium
• Fresh Start Health Food Market and Organic Eatery

Bronx

• Green Light Cuisine

If you wanna know about a restaurant that's been added to the guide before I get around to bragging, please subscribe to (or check often) the recently added restaurants page.

We've got new features!*

You can now keep up with new restaurants as we add them to our amazing NYC vegan restaurant guide. Just click here to see the latest restaurants, subscribe by RSS feed, or get email alerts. You'll never miss a new vegan restaurant again! (You can help us keep this up-to-date by alerting us to new restaurants at tips@supervegan.com.)

We've also been having fun with our restaurant reviews system--now you can see the top rated restaurants in each borough of New York City. Check out the top restaurants in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx, and Staten Island. (Those last two are looking a bit anemic; leave some reviews for your Bronx and Staten Island favorites, people. There's got to be something out there worth eating.)

If you don't like the results, find your favorite restaurant and leave a review!** Your rating will be instantly incorporated into our ranking system.

* Okay, some of you probably noticed that we've actually had these for a while. We just took two months to announce them. Oh yeah, things move quickly here in SuperVegan land.

** This advice does not apply if it's your own restaurant.

This morning I made many more additions to our NYC Vegan Restaurant Guide based on user recommendations and places we discovered via TimeOut New York. Huge thanks to Andreas, Brooklyn Vegan, Cathy, Colin, Colleen, Jackie, Josh, Juliana, Sarah, and Zoe for their suggestions.

Thanks also to Rion at The Green Bean Cafe for bringing this newish, nearly all-vegan veg place to our attention. I was drooling while creating the entry. I can't wait to check it out and once I do I'll leave a review. Please check out the list of new additions and leave a review if you've been to any of these places.

Yesterday evening and this morning I made even more additions and updates to our NYC Vegan Restaurant Guide. I'm glad to report that (I think) I've added and updated all of the places that our wonderful tipsters have emailed to us. Many thanks to Cathy on the Upper West Side, Zach in Chinatown, Paula in Astoria, Debya in Brooklyn, and musician Andrew Philip Tipton in Staten Island.

Please leave reviews!

I'm in the process of updating our superfantastic NYC Vegan Restaurant Guide. Thanks to Lollion for the robust list of Sunnyside/ Woodside/ Jackson Heights eateries! Thanks also to our friends Summer and Deidre; readers Anya, Zach, and Tiffany; and chef Cody at Papacitos Brooklyn!

We'll continue with the resty guide updates, so if you don't see the restaurant you tipped us off to, don't worry, it's on our to-do list. In the meanwhile, pretty please help keep me motivated on doing this lame data entry chore by leaving reviews of any new or old restaurants.

Animal advocates across the nation will be partying this Sunday, July 27th in support of California's Proposition 2 - The Prevention of Farm Animal Cruelty Act which will reduce the suffering of 20 million abused animals trapped in cages inside California's factory farms.

The parties will help raise much needed funds to help get out the YES Vote for Farm Animals on California's Proposition 2 to counter deep-pocket factory farmers who have already raised millions of dollars and almost half a million dollars this month alone to continue the cruel and inhumane factory farming practices such as veal crates, gestation crates, and battery cages.

Find a party near you or visit the following NYC ones hosted by dedicated local activists Christine Mott in Manhattan's Financial District and Ruth Santana in Astoria, Queens.

Nora Kramer who worked full-time (and over-time!) on the ground in California's Bay Area will be joining the Manhattan party to give a first hand account of what's going on in California. She was the Bay Area regional coordinator for Californians for Humane Farms campaign. Come hear Nora's inspiring account and how New Yorkers can help animals and our friends and colleagues in California!

Here are more ways you can help. And yes, you can still make a donation if you can't make it to a party.

It's been a while since the last big update to our NYC Vegan Restaurant Guide. Remember: if you've been a customer at any of these places, help out your fellow vegans by leaving a review!

Park Slope gets a few veg-friendly omni places: Bogota Latin Bistro, Flatbush Farm, and Hunan Delight (your go-to place for fake meat when you're sick of Vegetarian Palate, especially now that Red Hot has closed).

Elsewhere in Brooklyn, Frank White brings great coffee, vegan sandwiches and baked good, and more than a little style to the no-man's-land between Clinton Hill and Prospect Heights. Urban Spring brings pricey fancy organicness to Fort Greene. Brooklyn Label brings vegan-friendly brunch to Greenpoint. Downtown Brooklyn's Perelandra is a grocery store, but they also have a lot of great prepared food (including a vegan McMuffin!).

In Mahnattan, Bluestockings is great a bookstore and event space, but don't forget they also have coffee and vegan baked goods, as does Hopscotch Cafe on Tompkins Square. Moving further uptown, the Sri Lankan Nirvana Cafe in Gramercy is recommended by multiple SuperVegan readers. We were excited about Zen Burger, but it's kind of unbelievably un-vegan for a vegetarian burger joint.

What about Queens? Internationalist Mundo Cafe & Restaurant is somehow the first place we've ever listed in Astoria.

Huge thanks to readers Tiffany, Isa, Allison, Brooklyn Vegan, Janet, DaSleaza, and Mikaila for alerting us to some of these places. We've got at least a dozen more restaurants that we're working on adding, so expect another update like this soon. As always, if you know of a place that should be in the guide, let us know!

Don't forget that you can browse our listings by neighborhood and by cuisine.

Ok, just a week since our last update, but here's more! Check out the following latest additions to SuperVegan's NYC Vegan Restaurant Guide!

• The latest all-vegetarian addition to Curry Hill, Tiffin Wallah brings $6 lunch buffets, fancy thali combos and a hipper-than-most decor to Lexington Avenue.
• RIP to the original Veggie Castle, but its Queens offshoot in South Richmond Hill is still alive and well. Head on to Veggie Castle II - unfortunately, it's not housed in a former White Castle building.
• Perhaps the only sign that Staten Island really doesn't suck as much as everyone in the world thinks it does, Chin Chin Palace dishes up an extensive menu of mock veggie meats and seafood AND was featured in The Staten Island Advance.
• NetCafe has an integrated coffeehouse featuring vegan cakes and pastries from Sensible Edibles and vegan crepes. Of course, they also have soy milk for your drinks.
• So you're in Chinatown and there are idiots with you who refuse to go to an awesome all-veg dim sum place like Buddha Bodai or House of Vegetarian. Well, fear not, Dim Sum Go Go features a menu with great selections of delectable veggie delights like snow pea leaf dumplings and cilantro and scallion rice rolls.

In other news, Zen Burger informs us that their new opening date is next week, Thursday, January 3rd.

Well, potentially. They're talking to a big long list of local restaurants. Hopefully all these places (and more) will decide to carry the stuff. Wheeler's is the best vegan ice cream I've ever tasted.

Wheeler's is now available at Bob's Southern Bistro in Boston, and they're working on distribution elsewhere in Beantown as well as in Providence (yay Julian's!), and Vermont.

If you know anyone responsible for buying at any restaurants, do yourself (and the rest of us) a huge favor and ask them to carry Wheeler's Black Label Ice Cream!