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Pure Food and Wine

vegan restaurant in Manhattan

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 11, 2026
Entity authorityQ111336191 ↗
Source-derived summary

Pure Food and Wine was a raw food and vegan restaurant co-founded by Sarma Melngailis and chef Matthew Kenney. The restaurant opened in June 2004 at 54 Irving Place in Manhattan. It closed in 2016. It is the subject of the documentary Bad Vegan: Fame. Fraud. Fugitives.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Pure Food and Wine” as vegan restaurant in Manhattan. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2004, 2016—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Pure, Food and Wine can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as vegan restaurant in Manhattan. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 11, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q111336191. Authority coordinates are 40.736, -73.987. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2004 and 2016.

Critical limits

Overview language is designed for orientation and should not be treated as a substitute for the evidence cited beneath it. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from “Pure Food and Wine” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.