Jade Café is the New Raw In Silver Lake
Wednesday, July 13, 2005 11:25
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. ; )
Kevin B says:
December 2nd, 2005 at 11:04 pm
I went with an open mind to try the raw food. My friends had a coconut noodle dish that they couldn’t eat because it tasted like sour milk. The noodles were not palatable. My salad, the one with the feta cheese, was tasty. The Thai ice tea had too much nutmeg and anice making it taste like licorice milk–not very good.
camille says:
July 29th, 2006 at 1:56 pm
we went the other night with an open mind. let me tell you. with only about 15 dinner guests in the restaurant you wouldn’t expect to wait an hour for your food. and it’s not even that good. sure raw food is not supposed to be tasty, but the food was just not that good. and i’d say a little pricey too. the waiter was nice, but slow as molasses. i wonder how many people are working in the kitchen. it seemed like one person was in there. if you do try this place, make sure you have lots of time to kill.
Amelia says:
December 8th, 2006 at 12:39 pm
A friend took me to Jade, as I had been wanting to go ever since it opened…it was a TOTAL disappointment! I HAD THE RUNS FOR HOURS after eating at this place! gross! I am a vegetarian, though not vegan…my mother is a chef and has been using “raw” techniques for YEARS, so the raw experience was not my first, but it will be my LAST, as this place completely turned my off- BEWARE of THE RUNS this place may give you! gross.
Bob says:
February 15th, 2008 at 3:15 pm
Ahh, the benifits of big city living! If we want a vegan meal we have to go to McDonald’s and order a salad! I envy you! (We mostly eat at home. LOL)