Before the Do It Now opening, Hannah and I got lunch at yet another raw vegan restaurant: Euphoria Loves Rawvolution Cafe. I guess I’m on a bit of a raw kick — mainly because these raw places generally use fresh, healthy organic ingredients –
I had the Big Matt with Cheese — which I liked for the first few bites, but then the onion “bread” seemed to get chewier and chewier and everything within it more and more dense…. I think I’ll just have to go for a good old-fashioned salad next time.
Hannah had the Sloppy Joe, along with a cucumber salad and no-bean hummus, all of which she loved. I tried the no-bean hummus and have to say it really, really tasted like “real” hummus.
We speculated over our meals what this no-bean ingredient must be — and also over why beans aren’t allowed in the first place. Anyone know?
Euphoria Cafe’s run by Matt and Janabai Amsden (Matt published RAWvolution: Gourmet Living Cuisine) and won Greenopia’s 4-leaf award for its greeness: No toxic chemicals, all compostable takeout packaging, etc.
Like Leaf Cuisine, Euphoria’s an order-at-the-counter, stake-out-a-table deal, with pleasant indoor and outdoor seating.
The main oddity about Euphoria: The girl at the counter was really, really, really slow, though sweet. She took a long time looking up the prices on the menu for every item we ordered, then manually added everything up on a lil piece of paper, then input all the numbers again into the register to give us our receipt….
She gave us our KCRW fringe benefits discount though :)
Euphoria Loves Rawvolution Cafe. 2301 Main St. Santa Monica. 310.392.9501. Daily 9 am - 9:30 pm.
August 28th, 2007 at 3:54 pm
Hi Siel,
Beans aren’t allowed presumably because they need to be cooked in order to be edible. They probably substitute more nuts for the beans. Which is why I can’t do raw food. Too much nuts and seeds. I, too, have a hard time finding moderately-priced restaurant fare that uses fresh organic veggies in something other than a salad.
August 31st, 2007 at 8:46 am
Siel,
Thanks for the mention and the visit. The “no-bean” in the hummus is actually zucchini.
Peace,
Janabai
June 19th, 2008 at 12:23 pm
i just bought Matts book and hope to get to the spot in SM when I get back to LA.