Josie's   

300 Amsterdam Ave
New York, NY 10023
212-769-1212
www.josiesnyc.com

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Spoiler alert: This restaurant contains some meat! Outposts of vegetarian fare are surprisingly few and far between in Manhattan, but everyone from bike-courier dudes to TV stars drops by Josie's for chef Louis Lanza's mixture of super-healthy and not-exactly-vegetarian cuisine: dairy-free pastas, seared yellowfin burgers with miso-wasabi sauce, sushi rolls of portabella mushrooms, greens and brown rice, and organic poultry. Drinks are fashioned with triple-filtered water, of course. There's a bohemian undercurrent on the Upper West Side that makes this second only to the Village for vegetarian grazing. Say, isn't that 'Northern Exposure' and 'NUMB3RS' star Rob Morrow? Why, yes: he's co-owner of the place. Weirdest thing on the menu? Probably the 'Popeye loaf,' composed of ground chicken mixed with organic spinach, Italian spices, soy parmesan, organic barbecue sauce, and mashed sweet potatoes, served with sun-dried cranberries.