Two of us started Deli Santa Maria. She is vegan. He eats meat & we both love good coffee. We could not have opened a restaurant that only worked for one of us. That was the constraint that shaped everything. Every dish that went on the menu had to be worth ordering. The falafel and hummus because they are genuinely good, not because we needed a vegan option. The lamb because it is the best local lamb we could find, not because a mixed menu needed one meat dish. About 80% of