Restaurant of the Week

Positivity-preaching millionaires Matthew and Terces Engelhart are the owners of this weeks ‘Restaurant of the Week’. Their ‘Café Gratitude’ concept now boasts 4 locations in San Francisco and they plan to expand further to an ever increasing ‘live’ food clientelle. At Café Gratitude you are invited to step inside and enjoy being someone who chooses loving your life, adoring yourself, accepting the world, being generous and grateful everyday and where every menu request is a self-affirmation. Order something of the menu such as ‘I am Lucious’ a smoothie made with hazelnut milk, figs, dates, vanilla and raw cacao, and your server will deliver both the smoothie and an empowering "You are luscious!" complete with direct eye contact. Raw Foodists can choose from a multitude of positively motivating menu items such as the "I Am Bountiful" crustini, toasts made from seeds and nuts topped with avocado and Himalayan salt. The "I Am Happy" an almond-sesame hummus, and for those wishing to be more perceptive there’s the "I Am Insightful" spinach-wrapped samosas with cauliflower and macadamia potatoes. Continue on down the long menu and there truly is something for everyone "I Am Open", "I Am Beautiful", "I Am Powerful", "I Am Giving", "I Am Festive", "I Am Prosperous", "I Am Fabulous" and even "Yo Soy Mucho" a Mexican combination. Now if you’re worried that the "I Was Sensational" pizza with its base made from pressed buckwheat and sunflower-seed sourdough might have the consistency of a dogs chew toy RELAX. It comes topped with a zippy pesto of basil and hemp seeds, cashew "ricotta", ripe cherry tomatoes doused in excellent olive oil and a crumbling of Brazil-nut "Parmesan", and is wholly satisfying. At least it was for restaurant critic ‘Christine Muhlke’. Besides it comes on a plate bearing the message ‘You are Grateful’.