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.
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.
Comment by Edie — August 28, 2007 @ 3:54 pm
Siel,
Thanks for the mention and the visit. The “no-bean” in the hummus is actually zucchini.
Peace,
Janabai
Comment by Janabai — August 31, 2007 @ 8:46 am
i just bought Matts book and hope to get to the spot in SM when I get back to LA.
Comment by tommy — June 19, 2008 @ 12:23 pm
Hi ,I am from Canada and a week ago I bought a cookie and Chocolate Haystake from your Restaurant. They were great and I made them as soon as I got home. But the point of this e-mail is to say what a nice staff person I had serving me. Actually she was the kindest person I encountered on my whole trip. She was young with sandy blonde hair and it was last Tuesday ( Feb 10) in the late afternoon. Anyhow I just wanted to say “THANKS”
Comment by alison — February 17, 2009 @ 8:12 am