TC Vegan Chef Challenge Dine-Out: The Block (SLP)

🌱 Join Us at The Block SLP for a Delicious Twin Cities Vegan Chef Challenge Dine-Out!

📍 Where: The Block Food + Drink (SLP location), 7007 Walker St, Saint Louis Park, MN, 55426

🕖 When: 6:00 PM on Monday, August 25

💬 Space is limited. RSVP soon.

We’re getting together for a fun, flavor-packed evening at The Block SLP on August 25, and YOU’RE invited! 

The Block SLP is a participant in this year’s Twin Cities Vegan Chef Challenge and has a special, delicious dish entered in the competition – Vegan Pesto Rosso. Join us for a chance to sample it with some like-minded folks. Your rating will help us see how it stacks up against the many other restaurants in the competition! Plus, you’ll have fun while tasting some great food!

🥑 What’s the plan?

We’ll all be trying out their 2025 Twin Cities Vegan Chef Challenge dish, Vegan Pesto Rosso. It’s made with cavatappi pasta; tossed with sun-dried tomatoes, red onion sautéed and deglazed with white wine and lemon juice; finished with basil pesto; and topped with a vegan chicken breast. Yum!

We’ll also take a small action together, signing a petition and making a call to advocate for plant-based meal options in Minnesota schools! After we dine, everyone gets to rate the dish. Throughout the month of August, you can find the voting form at caa.mn/tcvcc. 

Want to try some AMAZING vegan food? You’re welcome to come, whether you’re vegan or not!

👨🏾‍🍳 What is the Twin Cities Vegan Chef Challenge? 

Each August, restaurants around the Twin Cities add a new vegan dish to the menu. Diners visit restaurants and rate each dish they try. We’ll crown the winning chef at a ceremony at 3:30 PM on Sunday, September 21, 2025, at Twin Cities Veg Fest in St. Paul’s Harriet Island Park. You can see the full list of competing restaurants here!

🤝 Why come?

• Meet awesome new people from all walks of life
• Enjoy great conversation over tasty food
• Make change for animals
• Help determine the best challenge dish of the year 
• Get a chance to win gift cards when you rate your dish or post about it
• Perfect event for those who want to learn more about vegan food

⭐ Who puts on this awesome event?

This event is co-hosted by Compassionate Action for Animals and the West Suburbs Chapter of Citizens' Climate Lobby.

Compassionate Action for Animals is a Minnesota nonprofit organization working to create an animal-friendly culture throughout our state and offer support for compassionate choices. You may know us as the organizers of Twin Cities Veg Fest and many other programs. Find upcoming events at caa.mn/event. 

Citizens’ Climate Lobby (CCL) is a nonprofit, nonpartisan, grassroots advocacy climate change organization focused on national policies to address the national and global climate crisis. They train and support volunteers to build relationships with elected officials, the media and their local community. With over 420 chapters nationally, wherever you are, there's a chapter to connect with. Learn more at citizensclimatelobby.org/about-ccl/.

Hope to see you there!