Café Gratitude’s new menu hits our stores today, and what better way to close up shop than to bring back some of our favorite items from times past.  Here’s a rundown of the changes:

Some of my favorite raw entrees are back on the menu – ‘I am Terrific’ Pad Thai sports a complex palate of basil, mint, and scallions over a bed of crunchy noodles and greens in a creamy almond thai sauce.  This dish is easily my favorite special of all time, and one I won’t soon forget.  ‘I am Giving’ Kale Salad also returns, and with a bold ginger tanini dressing that definitely outdoes its predecessor.

The Raw Food Family are a couple of parents, Katie and Ka, and their four beautiful children, who have been enjoying a lifestyle full of raw foods and travel together for over 6 years. 

Their journey began when their second child, Jaro, developed a persistent cough, and was diagnosed with asthma.  "Our small, pure son with asthma? I just thought 'I don't want this to be true! I want to have two healthy children and not to worry all the time." Ka opened himself to guidance, and found it while perusing his mother's bookshelf: "If you want to be healthy, forget about cooking."

Jaro bounced back quickly, and was a vibrant healthy baby by the time he was 2.  The family decided that they were all committed to living vibrant, healthy lives together, and transitioned from 80% raw, to 90%, to 100%.

Kind Kreme is a little collection of ice cream shops serving the healthiest and most sustainable ice cream possible in Los Angeles, Pasadena and Studio City, CA.  They’ve got the magic touch with ice cream, offering a variety of sweet delights that just happen to also be vegan, raw, local, and organic!  Daughter of Matthew, Mollie Engelhart created this awesome spot to showcase whole vegan ice creams that anyone can enjoy… and boy has she succeeded.  Try her almond butter and banana concoction, or a raw take on an orange Julius. Or try one of their signature drinks like the Dirty Chai (Chai, cold pressed coffee, almond milk and agave) or a Coffee Float (Icekreme flavor of choice, cold pressed coffee).  Go healthy with their whole food green smoothies and fresh cooling juices all made with farm fresh produce.  Or (gasp!) they actually did it, and you have to try it:  the Kombucha float!  You’ve got to try it to believe it!  Pick out your favorite kombucha flavor in the store and they’ll pair it with two scoops of the creamiest, sweetest, most taste-bud satisfying scoops of vegan ice cream you can ever imagine.  

Check out the full menu on their website here.
Kind Kreme is a top finalist in Peta’s search for the best vegan ice cream!  To vote for KindKreme, text KIND to 73822 or vote online here.

Artisana is a company we believe in.  They are committed to healthy, sustainable, quality pure packaged oils, butters and blends. They offer raw and organic, power-packed, consciously harvested nut-butters, tahini and coconut butters with minimal packaging. We love their mission and motion in the raw world, especially their dedication to keeping it simple.  We know that we can trust Artisana to come out with the most innovative concepts and the most pure products.

On Wednesday Artisana (also known as Premier Organics) announced receiving a grant from stopwaste.org to create and implement an innovative technology for using reusable wrapping for their product facilities in Oakland, CA.