Six course meal from heaven!

Last night Cort and I drove to Santa Monica to eat at a raw vegan restaurant by chef Matthew Kenney. I read awesome reviews about this place so I couldn't wait to try it out.

The restaurant itself is part of Matthew Kenney's culinary school, so we got to watch the chefs make some of the dishes.

The tricky part about raw vegan restaurants is that the menu can be pretty intimidating if you aren't used to the food. We really had no idea what to order so we ended up doing the Chef's Market Tasting Menu, which was a six course meal prepared by the chef. Each dish was pretty small so it was a great way to taste a variety of things on the menu.

Everything that came out was beautiful and so delicious. I felt bad eating the food because it looked like a piece of art!

The first dish that came out was a tasting of their tree nut cheeses with sweet & spicy mustard seeds on top of a fennel crisp. The cheese was made out of cashews and macadamia nuts, and it was extremely rich. 

Next was one of my favorites, beet tartar. The beets were perfectly sweet and crunchy and there was an awesome creamy nut sauce underneath. 

Our third dish was insane. Kimchi dumplings with ginger foam. Yeah, just take a look...

The fourth dish was the simplest, but it was so refreshing. A wild arugula salad with herb-caper cream, and dehydrated sweet potato chips. 

Moving right along to the fifth dish, and the best of the night, black pepper kelp noodles with a delicious creamy nut sauce, snap peas, olive crumb, and pea vines. Oh my god. This dish was ridiculous. Keep in mind it is completely raw, so they can't cook anything...

Whew! Okay so desert was art on a plate. We got a sampling of all of their deserts from apple pie to lemon sherbet to white chocolate to chocolate walnut cake, my mind was blown. 

 

And thats all! We left feeling happy, full, and really glad we came, it was an amazing experience! Cort is a meat and cheese lover but even he was impressed. In case you want to drool over some more food, check out his website here.