For the Win(g)! Orlando Eatery Nabs National PETA Award for Best Vegan Wings

For Immediate Release:
February 3, 2026

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Andrew Grant 202-483-7382

Ahead of Super Bowl LX, PETA has drafted its picks for the game day hotspots serving up the nation’s best vegan wings—and Orlando’s own Karelyn’s Vegan is a winner. The fully vegan comfort food restaurant’s “Florida wingz” are made with crispy southern-fried oyster mushrooms and paired with a choice of OG BBQ sauce, sweet chili, maple bourbon, sweet heat, hot “honee,” hot sauce, mango habanero, or ghost pepper sauce.

“Karelyn’s Vegan is dishing up game-changing gameday nosh with its delicious Florida wingz, which are as finger-licking good as they are kind to chickens,” says PETA President Tracy Reiman. “Every winner on PETA’s list shows that doing right by animals and your arteries ain’t no thing but a vegan wing.”

Chickens form complex social structures, dream when they sleep, and worry about the future, just as humans do. Yet every year, hundreds of millions of chickens are killed for Super Bowl Sunday alone. At slaughterhouses, mechanized blades slit their throats—often while they’re still conscious—and many are scalded to death in de-feathering tanks. PETA’s free vegan starter kit—and guide to the best heat-and-eat vegan wings available at grocery stores—can help anyone thinking of making the switch.

Karelyn’s Vegan will receive a framed award certificate from PETA, along with bragging rights. Other winners on PETA’s list include Triangle Tavern in Philadelphia; Fifth House in Omaha; Piper Down Pub in Salt Lake City; and Radical Rabbit in Nashville.

Karelyn’s Vegan is located at 5565 Old Cheney Highway in Orlando and is open from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Tuesday through Sunday.

PETA—whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to eat”—points out that Every Animal Is Someone and offers free Empathy Kitsfor people who need a lesson in kindness. For more information, please visit PETA.org or follow PETA on X, Facebook, or Instagram.