Raw Dining in SF/OAK

What is your favorite raw restaurant (and menu items!) in the Bay Area?

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  • Oh, STOP…I used to live six blocks from Cafe Gratitude and miss it constantly! I was obsessed with the “blue manna”—a cheese made with blue-green algae. And the margarita made with sole!

  • Queenfluff, they only have it sometimes…I may have had it at the one in the Mission, but definetly had it many times at the one in the inner Sunset. I think I had it with some appetizer sampler—with olive tapenade and pesto and crackers and some other things. The base is definitely the cashew cheese base—I have the recipe book too—I think it’s “farmer’s cheese,” but is not the pepperjack cheese. I actually tried many times to get the blue manna recipe, but they said they’d only give out what was in the cookbook. I also emailed them a month or two ago—they’d said they were scouting a location in Los Angeles—and they have picked a place in my neighborhood, so for all us LA folk, yay!

  • Slosh-uh, where’s Judahlicious?

  • I used to live on Lincoln x 16th, so it would have been a lovely bike ride…I’ll have to check it out next time I’m back in town. What do you like to eat there?

  • Cool, thanks! I want their hemp soft serve.

  • i’m always hearing about the hemp ice cream at judahlicious. i went there once and they didn’t have it. i got a smoothie, it was pretty good.

    i love:

    1) cafe gratitude everything 2) cafe gratitude especially, sampler plate, nachos, tiramisu 3) the farmer’s market alive! cart 4) alive! cheesecake

    have not made it down to cafe soulstice. have been meaning to for a long time.

  • noted: cafe gratitude & alive! ... everything listed sounds yum. can’t wait to indulge.

    thank you

  • Queenfluff, the base for the farmer’s cheese is soaked cashews, white miso, salt, and a little water. The blue manna doesn’t taste like blue cheese—I don’t know that it even has a particular taste; but it was literally bright blue (from the algae) and acted like an instant anti-depressant when I ate it (I should probably buy some algae!). If you figure out how to make it, let me know!

  • Mandelicious, is Cafe Soulstice in San Mateo?

  • I go to the Bay Area a lot, and eat at Cafe Gratitude and Alive. Cafe Gratitide is like my favorite restaurant evah! I am cheerful, enlightened, and bliss. I bought their cookbook last time I was there, just so I could learn to make I am Bliss. Just wait till my cleanse is over! Woo Hoo! I heard a crazy rumor that they were going to open one up in LA. (Crosses fingers)

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