Last night, we met a couple friends for dinner and beverages at Cafe Gratitude. For some of the same reasons detailed in L's blog, Cafe Gratitude is the antithesis of Spencer's kind of cafe:
(from L's blog) "Signs that this restaurant might be annoying:
1: It is in Berkeley.
2: It is vegan.
3: Seating is community style, big tables. You eat with strangers, and presumably have a conversation about how colon cleansing in India changed your life, or, chew quietly and hold your tablemates’ spirits in a loving, grateful presence.
4: Menu items are titled as affirmations. For example, if you want to order the stuffed avocado, you must say “I Am Generous”. For tea: “I Am Vibrant”."
1: Fast
2: Fast
3: Fast.
Spencer is clearly not this restaurant's target market. Nor are several other yelpers. If I owned the cafe, I would probably post back 'Screw you, angry yuppies. Go back to your cow eating and road rage.' But I bet that the owners really are above having negative people impact their life.
Which leads me to think about how we want Olivia to grow up. We're hoping she can be positive, relaxed, easy going, patient -- all of the things we've forgotten how to be in our busy lives. Perhaps taking her to Gratitude on a regular basis will help remind all of us to slow down a little, and to reaffirm the positive things in our life.
Also -- the meal was pretty tasty.
2 comments:
Screw you you angry yuppy! You go if you want, but there's no way you're getting me back in that place! Life's too short to eat grass, gimme cooked cow any day. For that, I AM GRATEFUL.
As an addendum, let me just say that Fast is not my ONLY criteria for choosing a restaurant. However, self-righteous hippies and crappy cold food is NOT a criteria I use to choose a restaurant, so obviously Cafe Gratitude and I were never going to become close friends.
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