One of the simplest pleasures in life is to go out for a meal with some great people and spend time eating and talking. Last night our
Kitchener-Waterloo Raw Meet-Up selected
Thrive Juice Bar for an evening of fun.
When I started the
raw food meet up, I really just wanted an avenue to help people learn about raw food. I also wanted to have the opportunity to meet with like minded people in our community. To get together and create a feeling of community for people who want to eat healthy, but also go out and have fun too.
Our evening out was a huge success.
Thrive Juice Bar provided us with the best service and the food tasted amazing. I want to send a big shout out to Jonnie the owner and thank him for his great hospitality. I must say this about Jonnie, he is passionate about food and health and this reflects in the food that he provides to his customers. The food is full of flavour, highly creative and the best part of all, it is highly nutritious. You will leave feeling energized, happy and just plain good about yourself and yes the prices are really affordable.
We started off with some drinks. We all got different things but one of the popular choices was the
Coconut Cashew Medjoal Date Smoothie. Others tried the
Thai Avocado Smoothie that incorporated the flavours of lemongrass, avocado and coconut water.
I opted for the
Big Green Smoothie. (Yes I love my Greens) This is full of nutrients and flavour. It is jam packed with all things green including E3 Live, Wheat grass and fresh greens.
Then we proceeded to the BEST Raw Soup ever. A melody or carrot, curry & coconut blended to perfection.
For the main meal I choose a fantastic raw Pad Thai dish filled with vegetables such as cabbage, bok choy, carrots, snap peas & daikon to name a few. The veggies are mixed in a creamy cashew sauce and flavoured with chili, cilantro and mint. For all of you health seekers out there, this dish is a nutritional home run. I can't say more about a dish filled with my favourite daikon and cabbage.
And last but most definitely not least.... the desserts.
Here is a rich raw chocolate brownie plate that I enjoyed.
Other's went for a fresh mango marinated carpaccio with coconut ice cream.
So if you have not been to
Thrive Juice Bar, go check it out.
Big thank you to all of the meet up members that came out to this event and to those also who helped promote it. I want to give a shout out to Mary, a fellow blogger from
This is Vegan, who came out to this event and posted about our night as well. Stay tuned for our upcoming
raw meet up events.....
For those of you that don't live in the Kitchener-Waterloo area, do you have local support or raw groups in your community?
