Why Did I Not Bring My Camera?

Part of my New Year's goal (not a resolution, dammit) is to feel healthier this year, whatever that means to my body so I decided to undertake a 30 day vegetarian challenge just to see if 1- I could do it and 2- feel a difference. All I can say is praise the culinary gods for Cafe Flora in Madison Park because normally I would not be able to trick Jacob into being excited about going to a vegetarian restaurant. He appeases my kooky endeavors though so when I got to choose our restaurant and he found out it was vegetarian, he very kindly went with it. Neither of us regretted that choice as Cafe Flora is a shining example of how awesome vegetarian food can be when done right.

This place has the most interesting menu of all the vegetarian restaurants I had Googled. I was beyond excited to try it. There was no way to mentally prepare for the euphoria that was about to take place the night we went there though. I tried the Portobello Wellington and Jacob tried a complicated polenta dish that looked like it came from Bon Appetite magazine. His dish was an indescribable extravaganza of flavors. My dish was classic cuisine at its vegetarian finest. We also shared a pretty tasty salad as an appetizer.

The highlight for me was the dessert. Everything looked so good, it was nearly impossible to decide. We ended up with the Oui Oui Cherie!, which was a chocolatey, caramely, mound of fantasticness that causes me to slip into a musical dream sequence and make up my own words. Even if you are not vegetarian or dining with someone who is, you have to add this place to the list of must-try restaurants in Seattle. We sat in their "garden" area and it was very relaxing in addition to being some of the best food I have ever eaten. It is by far the best vegetarian food I have ever

consumed and it made me think that if the food at Cafe Flora is indicative of what veg meals should be, then consider me converted. If I could eat there every day I would never eat meat again. For real, it's THAT good. So good, in fact, they have their own cookbook. Oh, and try some tea while you are there. Just trust me.

http://cafeflora.com/index.php