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The Soma Center has been an answered prayer for vegetarians, vegans, raw foodists, and fair trade/organic coffee fans in the Lake Worth environs since Scott Brown and friends took over a defunct ice cream and candy store in 2007 and turned it into the hippest thing happening - a tiny, laid-back café fronted by a yoga studio. Apart from marvelous gourmet smoothies, fair-trade organic coffees and pots of loose-leaf tea, organic yogurt and granola, and home-baked vegan cookies (the smell of cinnamon drifts down the block most mornings), they serve a lunch menu of cozy sandwiches and small plates - PB&J (or PB& honey with bananas), hummus, homemade vegan soups, free-range chicken salad, olive tapenade plate, and a daily raw vegan food special that might include Mediterranean cabbage wraps or walnut paté-stuffed tomato followed by banana cream pie and berry berry cheesecake. Wireless access is free in the café.
Strands of zucchini decorated with "meatballs" made from portobello mushrooms. Quinoa topped with bananas and almond butter. A raw pâté coaxed from soaked, dehydrated walnuts. The menu items at Soma require a slight suspension of disbelief. But once you muster the courage to order them, you will be rewarded. The walnut pâté, for example, turns out to be creamy, garlicky, and nutty. Spread on a wrap, and topped with a crunchy abundance of spinach, carrots, beets,... More »
A visiting friend of ours, professing that he "hated hippie food," ate his way through half the menu at Soma before he realized that what he was consuming was 1.) organic, 2.) vegan, and 3.) raw. We'd like to say he was a permanent convert to whole foods, but back home in New York he was instantly swallowed up again by a fleet of hot-dog carts. Still, he was our acid test, and we too occasionally find ourselves pondering the possibility -- as we spoon up our bowl of quinoa soup or bite... More »
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