Forage: What’s Vegetarian Editorial Review

Forage is a Silver Lake restaurant at 2764 Rowena Avenue that serves salmon, brisket, and fried chicken, and still gives a vegetarian several real meals. The owners label vegan dishes on the menu, so you can find those fast. The vegetarian dishes that contain dairy or egg carry no label, so you have to read the descriptions.

The owners write that they have served the neighborhood since 2010 and buy from local farmers they have known for years. Treat the dishes below as a snapshot from our read in November 2026.

What to order

The Coconut Yellow Curry is $17, labeled vegan and marked spicy. It has broccoli, russet potato, green onion, cilantro, and radish, with a side of white rice. If you want a sandwich, the vegan one is $15, and you get avocado, vegan mayo, heirloom tomato, and a jalapeño cilantro slaw on house-made focaccia.

The kitchen also makes a $17 salad of tomato, cucumber, zucchini, radish, cauliflower, shallot, mint, parsley, and crispy pita with a za’atar dressing. The owners label it vegan and gluten-free without the pita. A smaller market lettuce salad is $14 and also labeled vegan.

For something with dairy, you can get a broccoli cheddar or quiche lorraine with a side of market lettuce salad for $17. The two quiches share one line. Quiche lorraine usually means bacon, so ask for the broccoli cheddar by name. A slice of either runs $9.50 as a side.

Forage serves breakfast too. You can get a burrito with two farm eggs, cheddar, potato, poblano, and kale for $16.50, or three lemon ricotta pancakes with seasonal fruit and maple syrup for $19. Neither has a label, so we judged both meat-free from the listed ingredients.

Build a plate from the sides

The plate with a choice of three sides is $22, and it is the best deal for a vegetarian. The sides labeled vegan include roasted beets and carrots with cumin and coriander vinaigrette, roasted carrots with fried garbanzo beans and za’atar, snap peas with peas, pea tendrils, peanuts, and mint (contains peanuts), and broccoli with shallot, garlic, and chili flake. Sides start at $8.

Two sides need a closer look. A phyllo pastry stuffed with kale, arugula, feta, and caramelized onion is $8.50 and meat-free by its listed ingredients. The cooks toss the fried russet potatoes in fish sauce, so skip them if you avoid fish. The kale salad with arugula, feta, and breadcrumbs is $8 and also meat-free by its description.

The catch

Forage is a meat kitchen. The mains include salmon bowls, a beef brisket bowl, a beef and pork bolognese, and chicken that arrives by the drumstick, breast, or whole bird. We found no note about separate prep or fryers, so we could not confirm either. If cross-contact matters, ask before you order.

A slice of pan pizza is $8 and the cooks change it daily, so we could not read the topping.

Practical notes

On the menu we read, the bowls and sandwiches cost $14 to $23, and the chicken and steak plates run up to $30, so we call it $$. The owners offer catering and group orders through foragela.com, and you can order online through Toast. Call (323) 407-6377 to check hours, since the hours we found were not current enough to publish. Forage links to a Thanksgiving pre-order menu from its own site this November, and we found no closure notice.

Order the curry with a side of the roasted carrots and garbanzo beans, and you have a vegan dinner under $26.