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| - I heard about Cruda Cafe very recently since it was featured and listed in NOW mag's best veggie restaurants in the city. It's a raw, live, organic food cafe. I'm not a raw foodie, but do take interest in this type of lifestyle. I've taken to some elements of raw eating since I am working on becoming vegan. First of all there's hardly any veggievegan restos in Toronto anyway, so it seemed to like this NOW mag list covered off pretty much every one.
Cruda is on the bottom floor of St.Lawrence Market in a far away corner. Unless you know this place is here, you'll never come across it. Not a good location.
For someone like me, who is open to raw food, eats vegetarian and almost entirely vegan, is informed about healthy eating, organic food etc. I still found this to be pretty intimidating. Nothing jumped out at me as appetizing when I walked up to the place. The daily soup was RAW Almond Tomato. Which means it's served cold, because it's raw. bleh. I didn't want that. They were out of the raw pizza, since I came later in the day, and all that seemed right to me were the rawraps. I had to ask what the wrap was made out of. I ended up with the Mexico Mio wrap which is corn, flax, herbs and some other kind of seed (sesame?) dehydrated into a flat wrap like thing. You can pick from the veggie counter for fillings, and it also has a cashew pesto creamy spread. The Rawrap was good, fresh, and tasty. But I think it was kinda of small for costing $8.48. But it was good. I am going to make cashew cream with pesto at home. The NOW mag article featured a pic of Crudas chocolate raspberry tart and talked about how popular it is. So I decided to take a piece to go. That cost me $5.09 and unfortunately it was awful. It was also raw. The chocolate filling is like a pudding and it's essentially avocado blended with raw cacao. The whole thing tasted like nothing, was barely sweet at all, and entirely disappointing.
There was also some vegan cupcakes in the window, which were the only non-raw menu item. I can safely say that I bake a better looking vegan cupcake.
Overall if you're into eating vegan and healthy and you're in the area, maybe go try this place for fun. But I assume anyone who eats raw or vegan and is somewhat savvy in the kitchen, like myself, could probably make this type of food at home themselves. Which is what I'll experiment with, but I won't buy lunch at Cruda again.
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