I'm writing a pilot and I have a table read with actors in a little more than a week, so for the next 9 days I'll be sleep deprived and consuming massive amounts of caffeine while I'm crunching to get my first draft finished.

While writing this evening, I needed to move around a bit and get a change of scenery. I was also craving veggies. Not just a salad, but lots of raw or lightly steamed mixed veggies. I rolodexed all the nearby restaurants and nothing was calling out to me. And several of my all-time favorite vegetarian restaurants are too far away -- I still need to do some more writing tonight and I can't kill the entire evening.

I scanned through the restaurant list on vegparadise.com and spotted one that I hadn't seen before -- and it's only 1.5 miles away! That's close enough to make a quick trip out, grab some food and jet back home to continue working.

Leaf Cuisine
14318 Ventura Bl
Sherman Oaks, CA

Leaf Cuisine is a raw food restaurant. I've only experienced the raw food thing a few times, and this by far has been the best. I had the Veggie Sunburger, veggie-seed croquettes topped with sweet tangy tomato sauce, mixed greens and sprouts. It's a wrap, but instead of a traditional tortilla wrap, it's wrapped in collard green leaves! I also had some guacamole with dried kale chips and a glass of fresh ginger-lemonade with a touch of agave. Excellent food! I was so full I didn't have room for dessert, so I definitely need to go back again soon.

Oh, I almost forgot the reason that this all ties back into my veggie car blog -- Leaf Cuisine also packages some of their foods for local health food stores and delivers them in their veggie oil powered delivery truck!

Till next time, eat healthy and tread lightly on the planet...