Eat Dance Live

After all the goodies we ate around 11am last friday when were in Montreal , I was still pretty full by the time dinner rolled around. A trip to the Biodome and some walking around did a little bit of good, but I knew eating again was for a good cause. For dinner, we headed to Crudessence 's bigger location on Mackay Street. Luckily, it had a more dinner feel in the way the Rachel Street location had felt more like a good sunny lunch place. Located in the basement half of a cute little row of buildings, it had a more edgy and modern restaurant/bar type atmosphere. Everything was crisp and white and mood lit. All it needed was more people wearing black outfits and spacey techno-trance music and we would have been set. Haha. The minute we got there we got straight to work, and started out with a bottle of their homemade Kombucha called Symbiosis (white tea and ginger). Andrew liked it quite a bit, but I found it a little too much on the sweet side. I like my kombuc...

There are days, where you eat so much amazing raw food that you actually have to split it into two posts instead of one so you don't look like a total glutton. That was pretty much our day trip to Montreal last Friday, which was pretty much a food trip... just the way I like 'em, and just like I had planned! I've been really wanting to go to a raw food restaurant since moving back to Canada. Though I know Toronto is rife with raw food places, but my heart went out to the slightly closer option, Montreal's Crudessence (get the title? C ru =raw essence =gasoline so "fueled on raw"? I know... I'm so clever) In fact, because I'm a food nerd, I've been studying their menu for months now. We even almost went there for my birthday back in October because they happened to be having a special fall harvest raw food testing menu event. (Instead, I chose to stay in town and go to Cafe My House. ) I've been waiting to check out this place for a long time. ...