This vegetarian (on thurs.'s vegan) low fat, low salt, organic, gluten free, and smeared with a faint incense-laden eastern spirituality and inherent goodness (i.e., you wouldn't tell a story about big dicks and say fuck a lot.) is run by a religious organization. They have a great outdoor seating area (too cold for us this night) and a nice garden and koi pond; in fact, the surroundings and landscaping are very soothing.
The seating inside is limited but also decorated Zen Buddha-Tibetan-chakra-like. They have a wonderful gift shop filled with clothes and icons and gods and goddesses.
None of their food is really hot. The very best part is their salad; very fresh ingredients and the salad dressings are really good too; almond, cashew, hemp seed and one other greenish-brackish looking substance. Lots of veggies to put on the salad. And they had great apricot bread with butter though the only silverware you get is a spoon and fork; no knives.
Most of the dishes i pass on; they look too healthy; eggplant lasagne, and steamed vegetables of an unknown variety and cut in mega pieces and rice and then several soupy and liquidy dishes. They did have a macaroni and cheese dish (which of course was probably not real pasta or cheese; unless it was cheese from their peacocks) which was really tasty but the other stuff i tried was not good at all; either too dry or tasteless (no fat will do that.) I took a samosa which i usually eat too many of cuz they are so delicious; veggie and potato stuffed dough triangles but this one weighed about 4 lbs. and the dough was about 6 inches thick and so endlessly chewy and the inside was terrible.
They had several sweet things for dessert but after our dinner with Kent and Molly we were going back to our house for fudge bottom pie and Florentine cookies with chocolate-orange filling so why would we be interested in a fruit homemade yoghurt salad or raspberry squares which looked like congealed maroon aspic?
The next time we go; i'm just going to order their soup and salad and bread since that's always reliably delicious. However, it might be awhile till we go back; i always have a next-day unusual G.I. reaction. i won't bore you with the details.
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