2020 Madison Magazine: The Green Owl gets a revamp with new Ownership. But don’t worry, the popular favorites are still on the menu.  Officially becoming Green Owl’s owner this past November, Fruehling is excited to take over at the popular vegetarian restaurant on Madison’s east side where he has been working on and off for the past seven years.

2020 Madison Essentials: Green Owl Cafe. Green Owl Café rises to the level of beyond the ordinary to be a place where meat eaters and people with many different types of diets enjoy eating together. The interesting and delicious meat-free dishes at Green Owl Café have earned their reputations as vegetarian/vegan comfort food. Even the cinnamon rolls, pastries, and desserts, such as coconut cream pie, cheesecake, and lava cake,

2017 Best Vegan (and Vegan-Friendly) Restaurants In All 50 States. Vegans, you have come home. The vegan buffalo chicken bites are ah-mazing, and the coating is not unlike that of a chicken McNugget (in the best way possible). Add buffalo sauce and cool, creamy vegan ranch, and we could order about ten plates of these. 

2010 Madison Restaurant Awards: Best B.L.T. The Green Owl Cafe Madison’s new (and only) vegetarian restaurant impresses with its flavorful T.L.T. with avocado. Subbing in for the “b” is a smoky baked tempeh. Served on slabs of hearty Madison Sourdough wheat with lettuce, tomato and avocado, this sandwich is the lunch item we consistently return to (and we’re meat eaters!)

2010 Madison Restaurant Awards: Best Interior The Green Owl Cafe The Green Owl’s interior is unexpectedly modern and sleeker than it looks from the outside, with a funky collection of vintage owls just behind its bar. 

Shannon Seip writes that The Green Owl Cafe is "...a chic cafe nestled on Atwood Avenue and packed with nutrition,"  in Dane County Lifestyles magazine.

The Green Owl Cafe is "Comforting and a little decadent," writes Lindsay Christians of The Capital Times.

2010 Isthmus Readers Poll votes The Green Owl Cafe Favorite New Restaurant.

 The Green Owl Cafe "...appeal[s] to vegetarians and epicures alike," writes Dan Curd of Madison Magazine.

Owner Jennie Capellaro shares her experience opening The Green Owl Cafe with The Story Exchange, a digital media project showcasing entrepreneurial women around the world.

The Green Owl Cafe feeds the Wisconsin uprising in Vegan Protest Fuel by Chris Sturr of Dollars & Sense: Real World Economics.

Learn about The Green Owl Cafe's social media experience in The Capital Times article Reaching Foodies with New Media by Katie Dean.

"From luxurious winter squash pureed and topped with toasted pecans to a warm, filling curried lentil, soup is at once simple, comforting and immensely satisfying, especially as the air gets crispy cool." The Green Owl Cafe owner Jennie Capellaro talks soup (and reveals recipes) with Lindsay Christians in The Capital Times.

Read what Seattle visitor and blogger for Andrea's Easy Vegan Cooking has to say about The Green Owl Cafe.

Madison writer and activist Ali Seiter reviews The Green Owl Cafe for her blog Chickpeas and Change in Vegan Mofo 21: The Green Owl Cafe Review.

A visitor from Minneapolis details his delicious experience at The Green Owl Cafe on his blog Everyday Tastiness.