When vegan restaurant Good Intentions opened in 2022, Tampa Bay’s vegan and vegetarian dining scene looked very different.
“There were a lot of vegans here; There were a lot of vegan businesses,” Good Intentions co-owner Jenny Howe told Creative Loafing Tampa Bay. “And that trend kind of took a step back.”
In the mid-2010s, and continuing into the early-2020s, public interest in vegetarian and plant-based lifestyles grew exponentially—arguably sparked by an onslaught of documentaries and the COVID-19 pandemic…