Cafe Gratitude

It was quite and experience at Cafe Gratitude. I am personally a meat eater and this place was a completely organic, sort of vegan, all raw except for rice and these oats stuff, unprocessed food place. It was interesting. The food was very delicous and their desserts are amazing to look at to eat, but I have to say that I was quite sad that after spending $20 I did not feel full and spent the rest of the night in hunger because I didn't want to spend any more money. The ambiance is very new age/hippie...the water was very yummy for some reason and the service was very polite and friendly...So this place is great if you're into this kinda thing...but for you omnivores/carnivores out there...please beware... more

Going to Cafe Gratitude is kind of like going to a good therapy session, but with tasty food. Also: cheaper. The cafe founders also designed a board game, and the cards (and sometimes the board) are on your table for you to play with while you wait for your food. You can break through your money issues or discover things about your friend's self-image and have an awesome and totally healthy meal to boot. I always learn something about nutrition here. Great things: the service is really happy and enthusiastic and helpful, the food is tasty, and because it's as nutritionally rich as food can get (as opposed, say, to sauce made from conventionally-grown tomatoes that has barely any iron because the soil it's grown in has become so depleted and then it was boiled for hours to get rid of the rest) it takes a whole lot less of it for me to feel full. Hooray! more

Given the divisive nature of Gratitude, I'm surprised I'm the first to review. I'd figure there'd be a whole discussion group about this place. I started hearing about this café from Yoga teachers. Yoga teachers are famously picky about what they eat because, by trade, they are self obsessed with their bodies. Gratitude takes you-are-what-you-eat to an obnoxious new level. I'd have to write a whole chapter here to really cover all the ins and outs of the place, but rest assured, it's not as bad as detractors of Gratitude would make it out to be and not the perfect Valhalla of food as its fans claim. Everything's healthy, café-food pricey, served in small portions (maybe not for yoga teachers, but for me). The taste ranges from totally nasty to tasteless to really yummy. The brown rice dishes are a good place to start. Watch out for the coffee… more