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Squash Flowers

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Silver Lake is home to a new raw restaurant that opens later this month.

Jade Café’s cuisine fuses Mexican, Italian and Thai dishes and offers a purely organic, entirely vegan, all raw menu. It’s located at the junction of Sunset and Maltman, which I really should map, but I gotta move on.

Appetizers are expected to include a crispy Garlic Jicama Bruchetta, sweet chilly glazed and creamed Stuffed Squash Blossoms, warm Cheddar Cheese and Jalapeno Fondue and plum sauce-dipped Spring Rolls.

A soup and salad selection precedes entrees, which include Layered Cheese and red pepper Chutney Rounds, rosemary, Portobello, cream cheese and butternut Hash Brown Stacks and creamy Ginger Coconut Noodles pilled high and garnished with scallions and cilantro.

The café also provides a healthy selection of sweets such as Chocolate Lava Cake dressed with whipped cream and raspberry sauce, a vanilla glazed fresh Strawberry Kiwi and Coconut Cream filled Torte, and an Amber and Pearl Sorbet topped with candied ginger sweet syrup.

Jade Café offers a full bar of refreshing tonics, elixirs and super foods, with a base of Young Coconut Water infused with ancient healing herbs that promote everything from youthful skin to a stronger sex drive. Wait! What?

You can download the complete menu from the website.

Jade Café
1521 Griffith Park Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90026
323.667.1551

The small space only accommodates 30 guests at a time, but it will be open seven days a week from 11:00am to 10:00pm, after July 29.

[update] So weird, Blixa Bargeld just sent me a link to Einstürzende Neubauten’s Einstürzende Neueküchen. Big ups to Risebridge, as always. ; )