Spread shows a restaurant’s menu as the restaurant publishes it — names, descriptions and prices in its own words — and marks a dish vegetarian or vegan only where the menu’s own words support it. Every menu says when it was last checked. There are no reviews, ratings or recommendations here, just the menus.

Vegetarian: no meat, poultry, fish or shellfish. Vegan: nothing from an animal — no dairy, eggs or honey either. Spread applies these to the dish as printed; “can be made vegan” doesn’t count.

VeganVegetarianConfirmed by the restaurant. The menu itself calls the dish vegan or vegetarian.

VeganVegetarianSpread’s reading, not confirmed. The ingredients as printed look plant-based or vegetarian, but the restaurant hasn’t said so.

Drinks are never marked. When a menu leaves it unclear whether a dish is vegetarian or vegan, the dish is left unmarked.

Counts come from each restaurant’s official menus, word for word. A dish printed on more than one menu is counted once.

3 Washington, D.C. neighborhoods: NoMa, Mount Vernon Triangle and Union Market — 125 restaurants, 305 menus. A restaurant joins its neighborhood once Spread has a menu it can verify; those still waiting are named at the foot of the neighborhood’s page.

“Open now” follows the hours each restaurant posts, read from Google Maps each time you look. A holiday, a private event or an early close can’t be predicted from posted hours. Distances are straight lines from where you are, not walking routes, and appear only when you share your location.