Are you Grateful? Are you Charistmatic, Sassy, Golden or Abundant? Prepare to be all of them…and much moremore when SF’s Cafe Gratitude opens in Healdsburg in mid-September.
Are
we ready for all this raw, vegan, healthful positivity? The restaurant
has been a whirlwind success elsewhere in the Bay Area with its
combination of rejuvenating foods, lifestyle affirmations and social
conscience. Want a side of spicy olive tapenade, you’ll need to order,
“I am Extra Opulent”. Pesto Pizza made with hemp seeds goes by the
moniker “I am Sensational”.
Aside from their jazzy names, all
items on the menu are “live” foods — meaning nothing is actually
cooked (but can be warmed slightly). That means lots of salads,
smoothies and shakes, but Gratitude also has a plan for soups (Pho
Miso, carrot avocado, etc), pizza, lasagna and grain bowls. No meat, no
animal proteins, no heat, no gluten, all the rage.
Prepare to
feel “abundant” with you wallet, however. Appetizers run upwards of
$8.50, salads $12-$15 and entrees around $15. Feel-good fare doesn’t
come cheap.
Cafe Gratitude, 206 Healdsburg Ave., Healdsburg. Expected to open in mid-September 2008.
How can you tell if your wife is dead? The sex is the same but the dishes pile up