The Plant Cafe Organic Restaurant Review: Using only locally sourced, natural and organic ingredients, The Plant Café Organic is hardly a low-key hippie haven---instead, it’s a sleek, well designed loft-like space with lovely views onto San Francisco Bay. The restaurant touts recycled hickory tables and beer mugs made from sanded-down wine bottles, while the kitchen relies primarily on solar energy for cooking. The ambitious menu full of healthful items (raw, vegetarian, vegan and gluten-free options, along with sustainable seafood and fowl) sounds promising on paper, but most dishes fall a little short upon delivery. A shrimp dumpling in roasted poblano chile broth hints at flavor, but the thick wonton wrapping dominates. The seasonal Chef’s Palette---essentially a mini-tasting menu---showcases topnotch produce. Creative dishes include a blood sausage wrapped in tofu-skin casing, and the Plant Burger, a hearty patty crafted from lentils, mushrooms, cashews, beets and bulgur that can be ordered with toppings such as raspberry aïoli, sauerkraut or wasabi. The cafe's tiramisu replaces ladyfingers with a more nutritious buckwheat---akin in flavor to choosing Ovaltine over chocolate milk. The wine list features selections from all over the globe.
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