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May
GBW and I went to Casa de Luz for lunch today. Pretty good. It’s not just a restaurant, more an uber-vegan, yoga-tastic, macrobi-organic fest.
Once you’ve wound your way through the bamboo, past the wind chimes and the meditation hall, and stepped over the golden lab who seems to live there, you come to the restaurant itself. Pay your $12 each and they give you a wooden disc, which represents your lunch. You then go and help yourself to soup, salad, and something to drink (various not-remotely-English-Breakfast-style teas, or non-flouride-ified water) and sit at a table. I think the theory is, you just sit down with anyone, but we’re only apprentice hippies, so we got a table to ourselves.
Then, while you’re doing away with soup and salad, one of the cooks comes by, takes your wooden discs, and replaces them with a plate of the main course. Everyone gets the same. Today it was:
- A pile of orange bean-ish stuff. I think they perhaps were haricot, but not sure. Tasted good.
- Similar sized pile of rice stuff. I think maybe they made it in stock, ‘cos it was too tasty to be just rice. Also tasted good.
- Selection of steamed (I think) veggies, including: sweet potato, squash, broccoli. Again, dramatically better than a kick in the head.
- Green leaves, with some kind of minty, limey …. stuff. All good.
Dessert was extra, but I didn’t bother with any. The only thing I didn’t like was the soup at the start. Imagine pot pourri in hot water, but not in an Earl Grey-ish way. That was it. A bit too pungent for my liking. But GBW scoffed it all. (She’s repleneshing after coming in in the top 100 women in yesterday’s Bun Run 5K).
All in all, recommended. Food as good as at The Sentient Bean in Savannah, but an overall more funky and zen-like atmosphere.
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Tuesday, May 5th, 2009 at 5:35 pm
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