PETA recently ranked US cities with less than 300,000 people in terms of veg-friendly places to eat, and placed Worcester seventh. Last year they highlighted the vegan meatball soup at Buddha Hut on Chandler Street, so this isn't a big surprise.

I've lived in Worcester for eight years now, and been vegan for almost nine. What with the opening of Belmont Veg a year or two back, it does feel like the city's restaurant scene is at a vegetarian high water mark. This PETA thing is a nice tip-o-the-hat.

Local restaurants Belmont Vegetarian Restaurant, Nancy Chang, and Loving Hut helped Worcester grab seventh place among small cities in PETA's 2010 survey of the most vegetarian- and vegan-friendly cities in North America.

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Olympia, Wash., took first-place honors among small cites, and Burlington, Vt., came in second. Rounding out the top 10 are Bloomington, Ind.; Boise, Idaho; Iowa City, Iowa; Lincoln, Neb.; Providence, R.I.; Syracuse, N.Y.; and Topeka, Kan. The winner among big cities was Washington, D.C.

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See also: VegWorcester restaurant guide