FULLY LOADED NACHOS

Seasoned flax chips fully loaded with seed meat, sour cream, nacho cheese and guacamole, good for two people.

Everything about this dish ($14) was perfect. The guacamole, the other sauces, the meat. It was definetely a portion for 2 people. Great taste & value! The zebra plate the nachos were served on was just ugly, it hurt my eyes.

EGGPLANT AJI

Breaded eggplant tossed in a creamy yellow pepper aji sauce – Spicy.

This might be one of the best raw dishes ($9) made out of an eggplant. The aji sauce tasted great. I can’t really tell what the chef has done to the eggplant, but he transformed it into some kine of meat. Amazing! My husband found it too spicy, but I loved the spiciness of it. It deserves to cost more than it does. It might e an easy to make dish but still, very great value.

CHEEZY BURRITO

Mixed greens, salsa, guacamole, seed meat, sour cream, nacho cheese wrapped in a sundried tomato wrap served with Cajun Jicama Fries or Chips.

The burrito was delicious. More of the yummy dressings and meat we had on the nachos.

Chocolate Cake with Vanilla Frosting

I’ve read so many great review on the dessert here and my husband really liked the cake we ordered. I really hated this cake. It was oat and flax based and contained for my taste too much coconut, it was heavy and tasted like dried mud with vanilla. I wish I could have tried 5 small size desserts instead, I’m sure I would have liked other desserts better than this cake.

Fofu Florentine

Sprouted Kamut Bread, Marinated Spinach, Avocado, Fofu, Hollandaise Sauce, Caramelized Onions, and Black Pepper.

I assumed that fotu is kind of raw tofu. But it was soft, very soft. Plain and wobbly. It didn’t taste bad, it didn’t taste like anything at all. It’s Brunch time, let’s forget the tofu and focus on what’s on my plate, this fofu dish could although be the perfect breakfast egg, it’s got the texture of an egg white for sure. And with the delicious Hollandaise sauce and creamy avocado, the breakfast egg is complete.

Avocado Florentine

Avocado, Tomato, Sprouted Kamut Bread, Hollandaise Sauce, Caramelized Onions, and Black Pepper.

More of the delicious Hollandaise. And avocado. Delicious.

All American Burger with BBQ Sauce

Sprouted Kamut Bread, Veggie Burger, Tomato, Onion, Sweet Pickles, Romaine Lettuce, BBQ Sauce, and Mustard.

The burger was very delicious. Easy to eat. So many yummy layers perfectly assambled.

Chocolate Lava Cake

Pecans, Coconut, Dates, Cacao, Avocado, Vanilla, Sea Salt, Coconut Sugar, and Stevia.

I was waiting for a soft, decadent cake, as the menu promises. I found the cake crust dry, not sweet at all, the melting lava filling was very good though.

Ice Cream.

Ice, macadamia nuts.

The ice cream was actually pretty good. I love macadamia nuts, they taste so “real”-milk like.

Falafel Salad

Falafel with tabhouli. Tossed with greens, lemon tahini, and red pepper hot sauce.

This falafel salad ($16) is one of the kind and a true speciality of this raw vegan restaurant. It doesn’t happen all too often that I get the maximum satisfaction from just one dish. This salad is so delicious that I had it t least 10 times during our time in NYC. The tabbouleh is light and well seasoned. The falafel are the best ever. Hearty, nutty, meaty, with the Mediterranean flavor you would expect, plus a touch of sweetness. On the outside dense, on the inside moist. So delicious. I wish I could eat a plate full of falafel balls, but honestly, after eating 3-4 of them, I’m full. This salad goes straight onto my fav food list! Check it out if you want to know what else I loved eating.

Tortilla wraps

Spicy sun-dried tomato filling, corn cilantro guacamole, tomato-lime salsa, cashew sour cream.

For those who love guacamole, these tortillas ($19) are a real treat. The shells are awesome. If you’ve ever tried to make them in a dehydrator, you can tell how hard, if not impossible, it is to make such perfect ones. Beautiful and delicious. The only thing I didn’t like, was the cashew sour cream. It tasted like yeast to me.

Zucchini and heirloom tomato lasagna

Sun-dried tomato sauce, pistachio basil pesto, pumpkin seed macadamia ricotta.

I wasn’t expecting to like this lasagne ($21). I’m not a zucchini fan. And here, such this zucchini slices. But, everything I though by looking at it was wrong. Just wrong. This lasagne is so perfect, so delicious, the zucchini slices just like they are supposed to be. The 3 sauces delicious. Delicious in combination. Delicious on their own. I was a huge lasagne fan back in my cooking days. As I started to eat raw, I was ready to give up lasagne suspecting that there is no way to make lasagne from veggies and nuts. Pure Food and Wine prooved me wrong, there is a way to make a raw lasagne that tastes better than a backed one.

House-made chips and guacamole.

Corn cilantro guacamole, chili-lime chips

You can’t go wrong with chips and guacamole ($15). Creamy rich guacamole with thin crispy chips. The perfect appetiser or a main. Depending on how much you eat.

Tiramisu

Flax-based garlic bread. Served with herbed olive oil dip.

We tried couple of dessert here, tiramisu ($7 for half the serving) is our second favorite. Our favorite dessert, mallomar, is getting its own page here. Back to the amazing tiramisu. It totally resables the tiramisu. The flavors, the textures. Amazing what chefs are creating here at Purer Food and Wine.