San Francisco: Greens Restaurant

If you are ever in San Francisco you need to go to this restaurant. They are a world famous vegetarian restaurant and if you dine here for dinner you will receive exceptional service (very happy to accommodate vegans) and delicious and well presented food.

(Don't go on a Saturday night if money is a problem as it is a Prix Fixe menu and pricey but well worth it. They have a Greens to Go cafe in the same building but separate to the restaurant for breakfast and lunch but the food isn't as good and the service is appalling. You will also miss out on the phenomenal views of the Golden Gate Bridge from the dining area if you just take away.)


























Left is my main (entree). Pot pie with corn bread and seasonal vegetables. My entree (starter) was a delicious soup. Right is my dessert; it was some sort of coconut flan thing. It was yum!

Alive!

I am in San Fransisco and ate at Alive! today.

I don't think I understand raw foods. Henry Thoreau, in Walden, challenges the concept of using fuel for the preparation of food, and I'm not that opposed to the idea, but raw restaurants blend and refrigerate. They aren't subtracting the fuel. They are just subtracting the heat. And the result?

I ordered a Green Smoothie that tasted like celery and parsley and had the consistency of sloppy mashed potatoes. I had already eaten lunch so I went straight to dessert and asked the waiter what he would recommend. He recommended the Strawberry Chocolate Torte.

The strawberries were nice (but I could have picked up a punnet at Safeway for 3.99) and the chocolate biscuit base wasn't without it's merit but the 6 inches of cold coconut cream that layered the top of the torte and increased my risk of a heart attack ended up on the side of my plate in a whitish-pink mess.

I don't get raw foods. And I'm not sure I want to understand. I think I'm a baker.