Plant-based i.e., vegan restaurant J. Selbys is now open on Selby Avenue and Victoria Street in St. Paul.

The restaurant is the creation of Matt Clayton, a retiredphysician who is vegan and said he was tired of the options available to him and his fellow meat-eschewing diners.

Claytons goal was to create a menu that even non-vegans would enjoy, and the opening offerings read like a gastropub menu: Fresh pretzel, Buffalo wings (made from cauliflower), a Philly sub, chili, a burger and lots of grain-based bowls. Theres also a tap beer list, wines by the glass and a kids menu.

J. Selbys (169 N. Victoria St., St. Paul; 651-222-3263; jselbys.com) is open daily for lunch and dinner, and for breakfast through dinner on the weekends.

Jess Fleming has been with the Pioneer Press since 1999, and has been covering the Eat beat since 2012. She is an adventurous eater, cook and gardener, but will only grow something she can eat. She is a graduate of the journalism school at the University of Minnesota and a native of Eastern Wisconsin, where she grew up eating good brats, good cheese and fresh vegetables from her dads garden.

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