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| - I deliberated writing this review for a few weeks, because I understand how important a business' reputation is and how crappy it is to get slammed by anonymous online commenters. The food here, especially the juice, is above one star. I could even look past the slowness of the service because of how long it takes to make raw food by hand. However, the fact that a co-worker and I who had essentially the same meal both got sick in the same way tells me there's a serious problem here - even if it only happened once and we were the only people to ever get ill.
On August 5, I went here with three other co-workers. It was not my idea, but I encouraged us all to go because I'm into juicing and otherwise trying to be healthy. I had the mexi-wrap, with others having the portobello wrap, the faux tuna sushi, and the neatloaf. The food itself was okay, but I can't give an honest assessment of it because it's now mentally associated with how sick it made me.
The co-workers who had the neatloaf and sushi were fine. Later in the day, the co-worker who had the portobello wrap developed a bad headache, and I believe some stomach pain as well, and left work earlier than normal. He later told me that he ended up having terrible light sensitivity and vomiting.
Later that night, I was the sickest I had been since the middle of college (for reference, I'm an '07 grad). I'll spare the details, but it was terrible, and kept me up much of the night. Worse, I was almost totally incapacitated the next day. I barely had the energy to get around my apartment, let alone get to the office. I did about a combined hour of work that day at home.
In fairness, I didn't get a medical examination to conclude that it was the food at Go Raw that made me sick. But, it is an incredible coincidence that both my co-worker and I, who had meals there that had common ingredients (including the collard greens the wraps are made with), got sick at almost the same time in nearly the exact same way. Based on my conversation with him, Go Raw was the only out-of-the-ordinary thing he ate that day. I know it was the same for me. I'm not a food scientist, but when two people have nearly identical symptoms right after doing the same out-of-the-ordinary activity, I think the evidence points to that meal making them sick. While food sickness can happen anywhere and to anyone, the circumstances of me and my co-worker both getting so sick, so acutely, and in such a brutal way, leads me to believe that this is more than my stomach simply not agreeing with something.
It is worth noting that my other co-workers who went did not get sick. Based on these Yelp reviews, apparently a lot of people enjoy and have had good experiences at Go Raw. I hoped to be one of them, but I am not.
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