The Vanilla Black restaurant is in the 2020 Michelin Guide.

Rich Landau served the first ever vegan dinner at the James Beard House.  The Fancy Radish restaurant was in the 2020 Michelin Guide.

In 2019, Vegan Hills restaurant won a Honolulu Star Advertiser People's Choice Award.

In 2013, Air Canada's enRoute magazine included The Acorn on its list of the top 10 best new restaurants in Canada.  In 2015, CNN Travel included The Acorn on its list of the "World's 11 best places for vegetarians from Oregon to India".  In 2019, Big 7 Travel listed The Acorn number 1 on its list of the "50 Best Places for Vegans in the World".

Cafe Gratitude and Chef Ellis have a new cookbook coming out in April that will be titled "Love is Served," and published by Penguin Random House.

Moku Roots was selected as the best new restaurant in Hawaii in the 2019 Hawaii Magazine Reader's Choice Awards.

Cafe Flora opened nearly three decades ago, and is one of the first plant-based restaurants in the United States.

Tanya Petrovna currently leads Chef Tanya's Kitchen, a plant-based restaurant in Palm Springs, California.