Last night we had an amazing meal at Pure Food and Wine. Pure is vegetarian and vegan, but it’s more than that. It serves the cuisine known as “raw food.” The ingredients are organically grown fruits, vegetables, and herbs. The kitchen has no ovens, range hoods, or gas. All dishes are prepared with blenders, dehydrators, and plenty of diligent chopping and whisking. You will find no eggs, dairy, sugar, and grains. Nothing edible is heated to more than 115 degrees.

It’s quite amazing. I had the Tumpet Royale Scallops in oyster mushroom broth, crisply wakame, asian water spinach and sake as my appetizer. I don’t know what they do to these mushrooms but they melted in my mouth. It’s the first time I’ve had asian water spinach too and it had such a nice flavor. As my entrée I had White Corn Tamale with Raw Cacao Mole, marinated mushrooms, and avocado cilantro salsa. Not only did I love my entrée, I also loved my husband’s Red Beet Ravioli. I either need to go back and to the tasting menu, or just go back often because I really wanted to try everything.

It's the one meal that you can leave feeling better than when you came in because even though you're completely full, it was all good healthy food. They have a great drink menu too. Dave had some sort of asian pear martini that was really good and I had wine from their organic wine list.

I highly recommend this for anyone that doesn’t have to have meat to be satisfied. It you’re all about “meat and potatos” you should probably skip it. But for anyone open to a little adventure, I’d say give it a try.
My husband did mention that he thought it might be a little over priced for what it is (he liked it though). I disagree. Well, I guess I should admit that in Manhattan everything is overpriced for what it is. However, I think the prices here were as justified as any other place. I think because of the limitations of raw/vegan/organic, the chef is forced to have an even greater imagination and really experiment with food which to me is worth the cost.