How San Francisco’s Vegan Mob Became a Plant-Based BBQ Empire

On a hot day in late October, the sun shines on Charter Oak Avenue as a fleet of cars sails in and out of the dead-end street picking up breakfast burritos and tea leaf salads from a many-faced ghost kitchen. Dressed in all black with cherry red Yeezy-esque shoes, Toriano Gordon walks out of the establishment and takes a seat at a picnic table, cigarette smoke lilting in the autumn air. The founder and owner of Vegan Mob, the Bay’s go-to for meatless soul food, can . . .