The Vegetable Whisperer Comes to Main Street

Great blog post from Eco-Chick. Thank you Jane! Blushing in Chester.

In the past when I’d visit Los Angeles the first thing I’d do after alighting was to head straight to Cru , Silver Lake’s premiere raw food restaurant for a hardcore theobroma fix. I’d order their rich, creamy chocolate shake and cashew raviolis with pesto, or any number of the other addictive entree offerings. (You would think that an ecstatic live chocolate shake would be easy to come by, but no one in raw NYC can make one that can touch the shakes at Cru or Juliano’s.) The menu was small but brilliant, with none of the usual missteps that other raw restaurants make. Everything on the menu was fully conceived and delicious using the finest quality produce and ingredients that the bountiful world class L.A. farmers markets have to offer. Quality not quantity being the idea. At Cru’s helm was chef Rachel Carr, who in a few short years distinguished herself from the pack of...

Full article: http://eco-chick.com/2012/09/11663/vegan-fare-at-six-main/