Follow Your Heart

Follow Your Heart Market & Café traces its roots to 1970, when a seven-seat soup, salad and sandwich counter opened inside a natural food store in Southern California. The company is best known for Vegenaise, an egg-free mayonnaise its founders developed after a supplier's mayo turned out to be regular mayo relabeled. The café still serves the Avocado, Tomato & Sprouts sandwich, often ordered as the Love Plate with homemade soup and iced tea, and the brand also makes dairy-free cheese, dressings and dips.

The café is on Sherman Way in Los Angeles, at the original counter the founders carried two blocks when they moved into a former butcher shop. Regular hours aren't listed in the material, so it's worth confirming before a visit. Vegenaise and the dairy-free cheeses are also sold in stores, which makes the café a good place to try the products before buying them.