Daily Mirror (Sri Lanka)

Café RAW, the newest All Organic Café to hit the town!

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Food

The menu mainly consists of smoothies, sandwich or quinoa bowls, salads and desserts. The beauty of their items is, every dish or drink is customisab­le to your own liking or you can simply request what you want.

One of the most important facts about the used produce is that, all of them are organic and the chicken and eggs are free range as well. In addition, all of their nuts and seeds such as goji berries and raw cacao are all imported from Australia. They use recycled paper for delivery packages and metal or bamboo straws for their smoothies. Drinks

Superfood Protein Smoothie

There are two smoothie options, which are the Superfood Protein Smoothie (Rs. 500) and the Power Dome Smoothie (Rs. 350) which can be used as a post-workout drink consisting of 2 egg yolks, fresh milk, banana, wild bees honey and oats. The latter was clearly not my cup of tea, so I opted for the former. For the Superfood Protein Excellent Smoothie, you can choose from natural yoghurt or thambili as the base, two fruits and one vegetable as the toppings and oats as a filler if you like. I chose thambili as the base, mango and papaya as the fruits, moringa as the veggie and without oats. The smoothie also includes an array of superfood nuts and seeds, which are almonds, cashew, brazil nut, pumpkin seeds, sunflower seeds, chia seeds, linseed, toasted organic coconut, goji berries, raw cacao nibs and mulberries.

Starters

Soup of the Day – Vegetable Soup with Bone

Broth (Rs. 350) is a nutrient loaded soup and again I was very sceptical going in because I have never had bone broth in any form before. The soup tasted incredible, with different types of green notes hitting the taste buds with a subtle hint of meat from the bone broth. The soup comes with two slices of multigrain bread and that elevates the taste of the soup.

Main Course Build Your Own – Sandwich/ Quinoa Bowl

In this dish you have the option of constructi­ng your own sandwich or quinoa bowl and we chose to make a sandwich. You can choose the protein

from chicken (Rs.700), egg (Rs. 620) or paneer (Rs.

680). Our choices were, sandwiches with chicken, sweet potato and katta sambol as the filler, with mixed salad leaves and gotukola pesto as the salad dressing. This summed up to be a killer sandwich. The only concern I have would be not having enough katta sambol to cut through all that. The chicken, veggies and the gotukola pesto tasted so refreshing and I love how they have tried to give a Lankan twist to it. And strangely they work!

Salad

The salad (Rs. 750) is also customisab­le in terms of the protein and the dressing. And we opted for it to be eggs and vinigrette. The rest was mixed green leaves ad micro greens as the salad and pistachios, sunflower kernels, almonds, macadamias, currants, pumpkin kernels, Inca berries, walnuts, goji berries and organic coconut flakes as the superfood combo.

Dessert Natural Yogurt with the Works

As dessert we picked the Natural Yogurt with

the Works (Rs. 380). It contained fresh fruit with almonds, cashew, brazil nut, pumpkin seeds, chia seeds, linseed, toasted organic coconut, goji berries, raw cacao nibs, mulberries and a drizzle of bee’s honey. The fruity notes together with the milky flavor and the crunchines­s of coconut flakes and the nuts were a heavenly combinatio­n.

Service:

Ronali will always be at your service, guiding you through the whole menu.

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