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I try to see my friends Carolyn and Melinda whenever I'm in the Bay Area, but it seems to be working out to every four or five trips.

I've known Carolyn an impossibly long time, she's very much my sister-I-never-had. That makes Melinda the sister-in-law I never had.

This time they wanted to try Cafe Gratitude which is a raw food, vegan restaurant in Berkeley.

I had the I am Bountiful and the I am Fabulous. Both of which were very tasty.

We didn't know one key thing though, we didn't know it was a raw food restaurant. So we got our main courses and were a bit surprised. Melinda made a face that I described at the time as "A face you would recognize in a satellite photo." She was not thrilled with the raw food concept.

In fact she specifically asked our second young and monsterously sexy waitperson if the food was supposed to be cold. Much to my surprise she didn't say something like, "Yeah, uh ... duh! We're a RAW FOOD RESTAURANT!" But ... as I said ... we didn't know. Anyway Y&MSW 2 was really nice about it.

Later young and monsterously sexy waitperson three brought us nice deserts which, of course, were all raw, but there are plenty of no-bake cakes. So that was pretty tasty.

I actually quite liked my I am Fabulous. But it did feel like a salad and my brain has been trained to think of a salad as an appetizer.

So, even though Melinda wouldn't, I'd recommend Cafe Gratitude to people who fully understand that they will be getting raw vegan food.

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vegan , california , bay area , berkeley , raw , cafe gratitude , *** , 200702 , carolyn and melinda