I went for dinner on friday night with my dear friend to a restaruant in Nottinghill called Nama foods. What is special about Nama is that it is a raw vegan restaurant, that serves exclusively unheated, raw vegan foods.
Raw veganism is a way of eating that involves a diet of unprocessed and uncooked fruits and vegetables, as well as seeds, nuts, grains (mostly sprouted) and beans. A food is considered raw if it is uncooked or “prepared” below 116°F, as above this temperature range, food begins to lose its essential nutrients and enzymes, or its “vital life force.”
Raw foods are said to maintain that 'life-force' in our body from living foods. More than half a century ago in his book Prescription for Energy, Charles de Coti-Marsh explained, “By eating live foods you create a live body. Live foods contain essential nutrients the body needs to create and maintain energy. Dead foods speed age, decrease ability, and decrease energy … they are useless when dead…”
Raw food doesn't need to be bland and unexciting though and Nama proves that by taking classic dishes and putting the raw food spin on them. I feel like I say this about every raw vegan restaruant but it is expensive! Nama is very much a treat for me.
For mains I had
Truffle pasta
Zucchini pasta, cultured cashew truffle cream, chestnut mushrooms in Jerez, crispy shallots, black autumn truffle
and desert I had tiramisu
Almond and coffee biscuit, raw chocolate, coconut mascarpone, coffee almond brittle
I washed this down with a
Superfood Latte
Lúcuma, coconut oil, plant milk, vanilla, maca,
white carob, medicinal mushrooms
They also have a take away section with juices and raw versions of popular british chocolates and treats like donuts, fudge and bounty bars. They are all made with all natural ingredients, raw and none processed, no gluten, no sugar, no chemicals or heat processing :) and to me at least they taste even better!
Finally here are some pics of my friend and I enjoying dinner and swopping some seriously belated easter presents!