Mandala is delicious and inspirational. Every time I go I steal a menu to butcher their ideas in my home kitchen.
If you like processed, chemical-laden food, laced with complacency opiates, then Mandala is not for you.
It is the opposite of food-coma, it leaves you feeling refreshed and sated. I have tried the teas, and they are delicious, but frankly, I concoct enough elixir style potions in my home apothecary to spend much on them while out.
The service is always great, and the servers have that sort of cutesy yellow-orange-green tinge to them that says "I juice a lot of carrots!". Why I find that cute, I don't know, but it is sort of precious. I think it reminds of this woods-wandering vegan I knew my freshman year in college who would play his guitar and munch on veggies and give you these insane massagey hugs that in ten-years-hindsight may have just been groping.
The collard-green wrap was freakin phenomenal - and raw style. I would recommend leaning on your server for a very honest review of the soups. Sometimes they are amazing, and sometimes they are... very... healthy. Generally though, serious deliciousness. I'm all about super-healthy food that tastes amazing. And the deserts are pretty awesome, too, but I don't really like sweet things, so I may not be a great source on that.
My one beef (haha, no veggie pun intended) with the place is the IKEA seating. The booths are kinda.... eh. For a spiritual - enlightened - organic place, I would rather have seen them use local artisans or something, instead of souless-swedish mass production. Otherwise, the mandala paintings, and decor are very nice. The bathroom is distinctive and clean, that's important to me.
I will always come back, and I hope they are wildly successful.
Re: the prices - they are organic. please check out this link if you have any question as to why that is better, albeit more pricey.
http://www.mandalatearoom.com/choose_organic.html
Delicious! Three cheers! 4 stars!