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| - I like that they don't use aluminum foil, Teflon®, or other unhealthy materials in food prep. Some of their food is organic. If I could find an ingredient menu, I could perhaps give four stars, but they swear that they don't use nutritional yeast, which is a good start.
food: the calci yum salad was pretty good, with roasted veg, quinoa on salad with a few canellini beans and mostly salad. just enough tahini dressing, but i'd add some tagine spices to it to pop the flavour. 4/5
the ceasar salad was less oily than the LIVE® offering, except i have no idea what was in the GF croutons, and they tasted unsprouted, so i picked them off. 2.5/5
the greenhouse raw had 1 piece of avocado + one baby tomato, with no zingy lemon salad dressing -- just oil. 2/5
powerhouse salad 4/5. good and as described.
TexMex Burrito Bowl. I don't eat rice so I asked for none -- but the whole thing was 90% rice, 6 black beans, no discernible avocado, a few pieces of tomato instead of salsa fresca. the soy strips were not spiced but just too sweet and plentiful. Add at least ¼ c salsa Fresca, half an avocado, some fresh cilantro and flavour and you'l be close to getting somewhere. utterly disappointing. 1/5
the Thai and spicy squash soup were 3.5/5 stars each and i'd order them again. i'd addd thai basil to the Thai one, tho.
i like the emphasis on raw in the salads i got, with ccooked extras added so as to fit an 80/20 diet. you could almost fit an 80/10/10 diet too.
this is the healthiest take-out i've found in the downtown core besides Cruda Café. Offerings could be further refined for flavours and quality, but great start.
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