Featured in Maryland Family Magazine about vegetarian Thanksgiving November, 2011
The day before Thanksgiving is a busy time for Great Sage, a vegan restaurant in Clarksville. The restaurant is closed on Thanksgiving, but the day before, vegan families pick up traditional Thanksgiving dishes made with vegan ingredients to serve at their Thanksgiving meals, such as pumpkin pies, mashed potatoes, stews and roasts.
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Featured in Disarray Magazine about vegetarian Thanksgiving November, 2011
Yummy Plants features recipes from Alexandra Jamieson, author of Vegan Cooking for Dummies; Executive Chef Russell Svoboda of the all-vegan restaurant "Great Sage;" Chef Charlie Ayers of Calafia in Palo Alto; Christy Morgan, author of Blissful Bites; and renowned nutritarian Dr. Joel Fuhrman of Diseaseproof.com.
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Interview with LiveNowFitness November, 2011
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Baltimore Sun 100 best Baltimore-area restaurants 2011: Date night
Sophisticated vegan fare served in a handsome contemporary setting. Live music and a fully stocked bar of organic spirits make for fun and stimulating dining. If you love animals as much as you do humans, then you can have a date at Great Sage without the guilt.
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Ranked #6 in the 50 Best Restaurants in Baltimore Counties by the Baltimore Sun, April 25, 2011
Check out our list of the best restaurants in Baltimore, Howard and Anne Arundel counties.
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Yummy Plants, January 28, 2011
My husband, who is not a vegetarian, loves this restaurant and chooses to go there all the time. The food is great and the atmosphere is wonderful.
Great Sage is anything but common–featuring a bold menu inspired by exotic flavors from around the world, using organic ingredients to nourish the body, and providing a warm, earthy, yet romantic atmosphere perfect for any occasion.
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Howard County, MD's Great Sage: Upscale Vegan Cuisine and Cocktails, January 23, 2011
Howard County's Great Sage has been a completely vegan restaurant for a year now, having previously been vegetarian/vegan. Vegan is not consuming any products of breathing creatures – including honey from bees. Interestingly, the chef at Great Sage is neither a vegetarian nor a vegan, but looks upon his work at the restaurant as an opportunity to be innovative and artistic in cooking.
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Best Vegetarian Restaurant for the Maryland Public Television Dining Guide, January 15, 2011
Maryland Public Television (MPT) today announced Great Sage as winner of "Best Vegetarian," category in the 2011 MPT Viewers' Choice Dining Guide. The 2011 MPT Viewers' Choice Dining Guide recognizes the top viewer-nominated dining establishments in 22 unique and delicious categories, ranging from Maryland's signature "Best Crab Cake," to exotic cuisine such as "Best Indian" and "Best Middle-Eastern," and even specialties such as "Best Beer Selection" and "Best Coffeehouse."
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VegDC.com's Best of 2010, January 13, 2011
Great Sage's lava cake is voted one of the top 10 best vegan dishes of 2010.
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Savage-Guilford Patch, December 12, 2010
Liz Fixsen's Music Column: Damon Foreman Brings His Charisma to Great Sage in Clarksville
There are several apparent contradictions at Great Sage restaurant in Clarksville. Why is such a stylish little eatery hiding at the back of a shopping center off Route 108, on the fringes of Howard County civilization, instead of at Lake Kittamaqundi in the throbbing heart of downtown Columbia? Why is a powerhouse red-meat funk and R&B singer-guitarist like Damon Foreman performing in a spot where not a morsel of red meat, or meat of any color, is to be found? Read the rest of the article here
The Baltimore Sun, October 30, 2010
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Baltimore Examiner, January 24, 2009
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The Washington Post, April 30, 2008
Don't go grocery shopping while you're hungry, the saying goes;
excessive behaviors may ensue. If you happen to be in Howard County's
"Conscious Corner," however, healthful takeout options are a few steps
away, at this casual vegetarian restaurant opened by the organic Roots
Market owners four years ago. Read the rest of the article here
The Washington Post, April 7, 2006
A Wise Choice for Vegetarian Tastes
Great Sage may not be exactly what Benjamin Franklin was looking for,
but hewould have enjoyed its chutzpah. After all, the menu promises not
only healthand well-being (if not exactly wealth) but wisdom. And not a
Baltimore City Paper, December 22, 2004
"The meal’s triumph was a special entrée: Indian-spiced cakes of peas,
red peppers, carrots, and panko, served over separate beds of
cranberry-mango chutney and sautéed swiss chard with cashew sauce—a
grand-slam of imagination and presentation, and absolutely the kind of
thing that Great Sage should be doing. My friend, who relinquished
little of it, kept repeating, “This is so good...”
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Vegetarian Resource Group (VRG)
Happy Cow's Vegetarian Guide to Restaurants and Health Food Stores (in MD)