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| - Allright! Raw vegan food in Pittsburgh! I'm a Pittsburgh native who's lived on the West Coast for the past decade. So it's a pretty wonderful discovery to find raw food here in my hometown! This place uses plant-based, local, organic ingredients and sources it from local small farms according to the waitress. They also have cooked vegetarian and meat options available as well, for parties that aren't so daring to try something new like raw food.
I had a really wonderful cashew cream curry, nicely spiced with nutmeg, slightly spicy. This was all topped with awesome pickled shallots. It left a really great, vibrant taste in my mouth after I was done. The "rice" was made with beets, ginger, and maybe coconut?
They had a local apple cider on special when I was there. After moving to the west I really missed apple cider, so this was a great surprise.
I finished up with a fig, cacao, chia seed pudding, which was really tasty, but took me a looooonnng time to chew.
The serving sizes were a bit misproportioned in my opinion. The entree serving was a bit small. I would have liked a bit more "rice" to eat with the rest of my curry sauce. The rice went super fast and I was left with lots of extra sauce to eat by itself, which I gladly did. The desert on the other hand was huge coming with 3 separate pieces of pudding, almost as large as the entree itself.
I love that they change the food here seasonally. When I came they were about to unveil their autumn menu along with samples and an art show for $10.
If you go, be sure to look down the stairs at the address. It's a bit hidden. I saw a couple of other restaurants around and almost missed it tucked away down there.
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