Walking into a restaurant that serves raw food recipes may not initially sound appealing to some. Omnivores could picture Sylvester Stallone slurping down all of those raw eggs in the Rocky series.

"For vegan meats, it's as real as I found," said King, who recently expanded Ben & Esther's to San Diego. Piled on slices of the deli's signature marble rye for a Reuben, the Unreal corned beef ...