Sorry folks! I have fallen behind on updating Say It’s Not Soy again. I just had two super busy weekends in a row and haven’t had much time in between to do an update. Two weekend’s ago was Tiki Central’s 9th annual Tiki Crawl. My boyfriend (Hanford) runs Tiki Central (a tiki social networking site) and the crawl is a fun time to get together with all of our Tiki friends. The crawl is four days long and 11 tiki bars are visited (who knew there were so many in the Bay Area). This was my third year of attending the crawl, so I had been to also all of the bars that were visited. Some of the highlights of the crawl were visiting Notch’s tiki bar (built in his custom car shop) (top picture) and Trader Vic’s in Palo Alto (not pictured).

Since I have been to almost all of the bars before, I wanted to focus some of the awesome food that I had on the crawl. It’s totally like me to post nothing about the drinks on the bar crawl and post only on the food. I also didn’t get any good bar shots since all the bars are poorly lit. The above picture is of the cheeseless picture I ordered from Pizza Rustica. During the second night of the crawl we visited the Conga Lounge in Oakland. The Conga Lounge is a tiny tiki bar with Pizza Rustica located underneath it. Inside of cramming into the Conga Lounge, I decided to sneak off and get a pizza downstairs. The pizza had a gluten-free crust and lots of veggies.

Pictured above is the vegan calzone I ordered for dinner at Lanesplitters in Oakland. Hanford and I took a break from the crawl and snuck off with some friends to have dinner Sunday night at Lanesplitters. One of the best things about Lanesplitters is that they made this own red sauce and vegan ricotta. Another bonus is that their calzones are huge! The above pictured calzone is on a regular sized dinner plate. Overall the tiki crawl was really fun and I’m looking forward to it next year. Find more information on the crawl at the official Tiki Crawl Website