Guest guest Posted June 5, 2002 Report Share Posted June 5, 2002 Hi all, We will be visiting Seattle later this month and was wondering if anyone could tell me of some raw-friendly restaurants. We will be staying near the airport for just one day before we head up to Vancouver to get on a cruise ship, and after the cruise we will come back to Seattle for a few days and be staying in Edmonds.So any restaurant recommendations, and specific dishes to order would be fantastic. Also, has anyone here gone on a cruise and tried to be totally raw? If so how did it go? I'm transitioning to raw now, and figure I will probably eat a raw breakfast and lunch, and salad at dinner, and some cooked food, but try to keep it to a minimum. Just wondered though if anyone has stayed faithful to a total raw diet on a cruise, and what they could eat besides fruit and salad. Thanks so much! Cathy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 5, 2002 Report Share Posted June 5, 2002 Hi Jeff, Thanks so much for letting me know about Cafe Ambrosia. Sounds great! I'll have to see if the cruise line has any experience with raw foodists. Thanks again! Cathy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 5, 2002 Report Share Posted June 5, 2002 Cathy, The one restaurant I (and many other raw foodists) go to is Cafe Ambrosia (http://www.cafeambrosia.com). They serve gourmet organic vegan food. They occasionally have raw nights where they will have a raw four-course meal. When given enough notice (a couple days) they will try to accommodate raw foodists. They often have raw pies and even raw soups on the menu during the summer months. Even last minute they could at least put together a great organic salad. I would suggest contacting the cruise to see what they can do for a specialized diet. They may be willing to help you out. Jeff >Hi all, > We will be visiting Seattle later this month and was wondering if >anyone could tell me of some raw-friendly restaurants. We will be >staying near the airport for just one day before we head up to >Vancouver to get on a cruise ship, and after the cruise we will come >back to Seattle for a few days and be staying in Edmonds.So any >restaurant recommendations, and specific dishes to order would be >fantastic. > Also, has anyone here gone on a cruise and tried to be totally >raw? If so how did it go? > I'm transitioning to raw now, and figure I will probably eat a raw >breakfast and lunch, and salad at dinner, and some cooked food, but >try to keep it to a minimum. > Just wondered though if anyone has stayed faithful to a total raw >diet on a cruise, and what they could eat besides fruit and salad. > Thanks so much! >Cathy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 6, 2002 Report Share Posted June 6, 2002 Cathy I have not been on a cruise but I travel twice a year out of state on business. When I pack my bag half of it is my food and water. I make crackers to take along. I packed green avocados packed carefully bubble wrapped, organic apples, pears, red bell peppers, nuts and dried fruit. While I am there we usually stop at a market and we buy a Styrofoam ice chest and lots of greens and other fresh fruit. I drink lots of green juice before I go and when I return and I find so far this has worked for me. I hope others send you other suggestions. Ramona - WilowSwan2 RawSeattle Wednesday, June 05, 2002 5:40 AM [RawSeattle] Raw Friendly Restaurants Hi all, We will be visiting Seattle later this month and was wondering if anyone could tell me of some raw-friendly restaurants. We will be staying near the airport for just one day before we head up to Vancouver to get on a cruise ship, and after the cruise we will come back to Seattle for a few days and be staying in Edmonds.So any restaurant recommendations, and specific dishes to order would be fantastic. Also, has anyone here gone on a cruise and tried to be totally raw? If so how did it go? I'm transitioning to raw now, and figure I will probably eat a raw breakfast and lunch, and salad at dinner, and some cooked food, but try to keep it to a minimum. Just wondered though if anyone has stayed faithful to a total raw diet on a cruise, and what they could eat besides fruit and salad. Thanks so much!Cathy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 6, 2002 Report Share Posted June 6, 2002 Café Ambrosia 2501 Fairview Ave E Seattle, WA 98102 206-325-7111 Info Gravity Bar Capitol Hill 415 Broadway E 206-325-7186 Good Morning Healing Earth 901 NE 55th Street Seattle, WA 98105 206-523-8025 The Gravity Bar has many juices. Their Gravity Bar salad with lemon tahini is pretty good. That's the only all-raw item on their menu I know of. Good Morning Healing Earth is an all-vegan, mostly organic restaurant with a few all-raw menu items. George the owner will make you an all- raw soup if you ask for it. Then there's a big salad with lemon tahini dressing that's all-raw, and a vegan " ice cream " which consists of blended frozen bananas and raspberries. Linda Reeves and I went on a cruize last fall and did pretty alright. We ate some food we brought ourselves, bought produce and juice smoothies when we were ashore, and whatever raw food they had on board. Linda ate the ship's salad, but all I ordered from the ship was their fruit. I know it wasn't organic, but they had restrictions on what you could take onto and/or off of the ship, so I made do. Of course, there's always the option of just not eating, a natural and healthy practice. Pretty much anyone can safely fast for several weeks at a stretch. In any situation, you can always come up with some choice that " works " . Eating cooked " food " is not an option, for me anyway, and for anyone truly serious. " Where there's a will there's a way. " If you're fully committed and intentional, you'll ALWAYS get what you commit/intend to. RawSeattle, WilowSwan2@a... wrote: > Hi all, > We will be visiting Seattle later this month and was wondering if anyone > could tell me of some raw-friendly restaurants. We will be staying near the > airport for just one day before we head up to Vancouver to get on a cruise > ship, and after the cruise we will come back to Seattle for a few days and be > staying in Edmonds.So any restaurant recommendations, and specific dishes to > order would be fantastic. > Also, has anyone here gone on a cruise and tried to be totally raw? If so > how did it go? > I'm transitioning to raw now, and figure I will probably eat a raw > breakfast and lunch, and salad at dinner, and some cooked food, but try to > keep it to a minimum. > Just wondered though if anyone has stayed faithful to a total raw diet on a > cruise, and what they could eat besides fruit and salad. > Thanks so much! > Cathy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 6, 2002 Report Share Posted June 6, 2002 Besides fruit (as I said in my previous message, I didn't eat salad on board), I ate the pistachio and macademia nuts I brought on board, and some other raw prepared foods Linda bought somewhere before getting on the ship. RawSeattle, WilowSwan2@a... wrote: > Hi all, > We will be visiting Seattle later this month and was wondering if anyone > could tell me of some raw-friendly restaurants. We will be staying near the > airport for just one day before we head up to Vancouver to get on a cruise > ship, and after the cruise we will come back to Seattle for a few days and be > staying in Edmonds.So any restaurant recommendations, and specific dishes to > order would be fantastic. > Also, has anyone here gone on a cruise and tried to be totally raw? If so > how did it go? > I'm transitioning to raw now, and figure I will probably eat a raw > breakfast and lunch, and salad at dinner, and some cooked food, but try to > keep it to a minimum. > Just wondered though if anyone has stayed faithful to a total raw diet on a > cruise, and what they could eat besides fruit and salad. > Thanks so much! > Cathy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 6, 2002 Report Share Posted June 6, 2002 Hi There, Saw your response and wanted to relate my experience. My husband and I went on a cruise to the Mexican Riviera with his company this past February. We were given the choice of selecting our meals as vegetarian but this turned out to be more of a moment to moment personal choice rather that an option for our meal consumption. First of all, no food was allowed to be brought on board the ship, not even bottled water. Ours was taken from us during embarkation. This is due to customs regulations and was not particularily the cruise companies regulations. Then we found out that eating and food was a main focus of the time you spent aboard the ship. There was a 24 hour buffet loaded with all kinds of international and common cooked food dishes. There was fresh fruit and salad always available on the center island of the buffet and from time to time there were some mostly raw fruit dishes available at the dessert stations. We were also given the option of ordering a fresh fruit bowl for our cabin daily and our cabin stewardess was super about keeping it filled for us as she felt sorry for us when we conveyed our upset over our food options as vegetarians, not to mention vegans and then even further as raw foodists. There will also be a more formal sit down meal option in the dining room you are assigned to, but we did not have many more raw or even vegetarian options there. You are typically seated with three or four more couples at a table and are given " menus " from which you have around three choices per course. One choice will be vegetarian, though it was seldom raw. You can also order room service but there were not any raw selections there either. There was also an ice cream parlor aboard the ship as well as a pizza parlor, but these are not any help either, except for the bananas at the ice cream parlor. One thing I found particularly upsetting about our trip was the water, shall I say politely that it is recycled? It was sea water, that was recycled through the onboard ship purification systems, and also part of the whole ships water supply. Not to be rude, but by the time we got to our first port ( on our third day) I was sick and my kidneys were sore. The cruise itself was great, but I truly missed home, land, and the abundance of raw foods we have at home by the time it was over. One thing we did do to help our situation was to carry some liquid dish soap and a small scrubbie pad with us when we left the ship to visit the ports. We shopped the open air markets and ate our fill of what was familiar. Please remember that if you choose to do this that other countries than the U.S. have very different regulations as to organic produce, and of course the kinds of pesticides they use on their crops; thats why we brought the soap and scrub pad. At least it was washed thouroughly before we ate it. Also, we drank as much bottled water on board the ship as we could get (even though we had to pay seperately for it) and we drank only U.S bottled waters in port. I dont wish this all to sound daunting or upsetting, It sounds like your probably going maybe to Alaska? Hopefully just that difference will make things vastly easier for you on your cruise. We definetly wish that we had been more intimately informed of what to expect on our cruise, as we spent many nites at dinner in the formal dining room with all of my husbands bossess staring blankly at us because we each ordered three salads and bottled water at a formal dinner (black tie of course!!)!!! Next year we will know the ropes and will be more prepared. Hope this has been of some help. Email me if I can answer any more questions for you. Brightestblesser Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 7, 2002 Report Share Posted June 7, 2002 If I knew that was the case and I was planning a cruise, I would invest in a top of the line personal water filter. Like those at REI. Jeff >One thing I found particularly upsetting >about our trip was the water, shall I say politely that it is recycled? It >was sea water, that was recycled through the onboard ship purification >systems, and also part of the whole ships water supply. Not to be rude, but >by the time we got to our first port ( on our third day) I was sick and my >kidneys were sore. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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