South Florida Lifestyle Guide - Holiday Gift Guide Volume III Wellness, Balance & Peace | Page 34

Christopher's Kitchen Imaginative, organic, vegan cuisine. The Baby Dragon Bowl, and the Live Pizza are strong contenders to get you over to the vegan & gluten side, or at least get you to eat more vegetables. Both items will incite cravings. Open for lunch and dinner. Indoor and outdoor seating. 4783 PGA Boulevard, Palm Beach Gardens.

The Vegan Cafe & Juice Bar The Veggie meatball sandwich and the Veggie Burger may not convert the hard-core carvivore, but for the open minded, and curious palate it's worth a taste. The Zucchini Noodle Bowl, Raw Pizza and Raw Spring Rolls are fine options for going raw and to top it all off, a shot of wheatgrass, just might be what the doctor ordered. Open for breakfast, lunch and dinner. 5075 Okeechobee Blvd. West Palm Beach

Bee Organics 100% organic, vegan menu. Popular dishes, garbanzo sea salad and the acai bowl are worthy eats even for the non-vegan. Open daily for breakfast, lunch and dinner. 123 Datura Street, West Palm Beach.

Darbster has two locations, West Palm Beach and Boca Raton they are only open for dinner and seat both inside and out. Sunday Brunch is intruging and diverse from the norm with items such as tempeh taco meat, tofu eggs, daiya cheeze, gimme lean sausage, cashew cheeze, and tempeh bacon. No matter your food preferences, no one is denied brunch any longer; it's equal opportunity eating at its finest hour. 8020 South Dixie Hwy West Palm Beach. 6299 N Federal Highway Boca Raton.

The New Vegan is open for breakfast, lunch and dinner seven days a week. Vegan culinary creativity is running on all four cylinders with choices such as zucchini bacon, raw plantains made with curry and seaweed and quinoa - buckwheat waffles and pancakes. The Garden Platter, large or small is the best option to sample a half dozen menu items, whether your favorites or first time going vegan. 528 NE 2nd Street Delray Beach.

The Raw Garden & Juiceateria is a raw, vegan cafe and Juice Bar. Flavors and texures rule here with items such as sea kelp noodles, flax seed crust pizzas, and walnut taco meat offering variety for the raw, vegan and gluten free way of eating. 179 SE Mizner Blvd. Boca Raton

Green Bar & Kitchen's manifesto is to always be plant-powered, life harmonizing, mouthwatering wellness food. GBK is all about the wellness revolution, and making a hearty contribution to the planet and to the people who inhabit it. The menu is short, sweet, and to the point, focusing on quality; not to be missed are the GBK Bowls, Forbidden Black Rice Curry Bowl, and the Firecracker Bowl, both abundant in flavor and texture. 1075 SE 17th Street Fort Lauderdale. Open seven days a week.

Seed of Life located at the Eucalyptus Gardens in Wilton Manors serves raw, organic, and vegan food. The ideal afternoon snack here are the flatbreads. Open Tuesday-Thursday-Friday-Saturday. 2430 NE 13th Avenue Wilton Manors

Green Wave Cafe serves organic, raw, and vegan foods; they do an interesting spin on Mexican food with items such as Super Nachos, Lettuce Boat Tacos and the Burrito Fiesta; all are house specialties and a detour from the typical veggie burger, salad, and veggie sandwich. 5221 West Broward Blvd. Plantation

The House of V is an organic, vegan, gluten-free bakery, all items, cookies, cakes, brownies, cupcakes, macaroons, and donuts are baked with all-natural and organic ingredients. 7600 NE 4th Court Miami

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