A new organic cafe is getting ready to open at the corner of 17th Ave NW and NW 56th St.
Cafe Reiki coins itself as “Organic Raw living foods Cafe and Community hub for holistic living.” As well as the traditional cafe offerings of juice, espresso, tea and pastries, they will also pre-packaged organic, gluten-free meals (which can be delivered or picked up), community workshops on holistic health and catering and specialty vegan desserts.
Cafe Reiki, which used to be home to Nervous Nellie’s, is scheduled to open next month. (Thanks everyone for the tip!)
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Hope they serve duck…quack quack!
Maybe they should call it ‘The Quackery’?
I don’t see this place lasting for more than a few months. I don’t see how something so specialized could afford the rent, especially in an area with poor parking and not much foot traffic. This is a horrible retail location.
Will the table water have memory?
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I thought all the hippies lived in Fremont?
So they don’t serve anything cooked?
“Organic Raw living foods Cafe and Community hub for holistic living.”
Normally cafes cook at least something, but I suppose they could be serving raw oysters, carrots and some liquids. The idea of raw pastries is particularly unappetizing.
Cafe horse shit…
Make fun all you want but there is market for this type of place in Ballard. Hippies have migrated and are excited! :)
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I spend New years eve with a pleasant case of salmonella from a local organic sprout producer…I think I’ll be avoiding this place like the plague!
awesome, I’ve had my eye on her company for years…I’m excited to try it!
Let us know if the water does, in fact, have memory! I had some last week with no memory, it really messed up my aura.
What’s the difference between reiki non-sense and creationists, who believe the world is only 5,000 years old? Will they get a cafe soon? Cafe Flintstones maybe?
The ability to rip-off people with nonsense may, in fact, be the world’s oldest profession.
The “raw living” foods referred to here means they are not heated above 116 deg. farenheit. So they can basically be dehydrated (like to make crackers from flax seeds) and things are soaked and sprouted. Preparing foods like this requires a lot of creativity, and while things are not “cooked” in the “applying heat” sense, there is a lot of work involved in preparing the foods.
Generally raw living refers to vegan foods and possibly honey, so I would not expect oysters to be served.
And raw desserts/pastries are often delicious — they use bases of dates, nuts, and fruits.
Yay! Ballard needs more vegan options, esp. desserts!
Most of the foot traffic around there is bums…
I’m pretty sure they already have a cafe for creationist BS down at Mars Hill…
Does malt liquor have memory?
Not just an earthy-crunchy food place, but a “community hub for holistic living”. My, my. Just a wee bit pretentious there, aren’t we?
I give ’em about 3 months before the For Lease signs go up, and two weeks after that, a bar will move in.
Gawd, Ballard is SO much better now that it has been transformed, ain’t it?….
“Raw Living Foods Cafe”. I prefer that my food be dead before I eat it.
OK, thanks, I misunderstood the living as meaning the food was still alive. I also did not understand they were vegan. The espresso to meet that definition would not use roasted beans. Suppose I might try them some time. Still a lot of euphemisms.
It’s not just for people who have a certain moralist view of food. Raw “cooking” is incredibly good for people with digestive issues and other intestinal disorders. Non-cooked food breaks down and is processed in the human guts in a preferential manner to cooked food (on a molecular level).
I assume you were not intending to mock individuals with disabilities? Or were you?
Auras are B-S.
You may want to check your science on this…cooking typically improves the bioavailability of nutrients. If it is your faith though please ignore this statement.
It sounds like you are comparing people who see the benefits of plant-based, minimally processed foods to creationists? Very odd. What’s the difference? Well, creationists believe something that has been soundly refuted by scientific evidence. The benefits of raw, minimally processed, plant-based foods are actually supported by scientific evidence. So, the difference is that they are exactly the opposite.
In terms of the reiki stuff, I don’t know much about it, but from my understanding it is some basic beliefs about healing energy. It may not be your thing, but from what I understand it’s not anything harmful and is not something that people are being brainwashed into. So that’s how I would say it differs from creationism.
Its website design is pretty raw, too.
‘digestinal issues’…this is American for ‘mental issues’ these days.
“It sounds like you are comparing people who see the benefits of plant-based”
Nope, I comparing people who believe water has memory (reiki…as in Cafe Reiki) with creationists. Learn to read.
“I understand it’s not anything harmful ”
I’m sure people are getting rich peddling it. Nonsense always sells well.
wow, it is unfortunate that there are so many haters in this community.
Well having some raw foods in our diet is a great thing and healthy but why should we not call out quackery especially when they make false claims?
Ridiculing, poking fun at or questioning quackery does not equal hate. You sound like Sarah Palin.
I did google quickly “bioavailability of nutrients in vegetables” (plz do not be eating raw flesh) and it suggested that raw fruits/veggies and soaking legumes and grains (also a raw food method) were ideal? What are you referring to?
or “Crohn’s Disease”, “IBD” (or is it IBS? IBB? I don’t even remember), etc.
I am 100% not down with the spiritual crap, but I’m all about the food part. So I’m personally separating the “my water has feelings” and the “mmmm kale chips are tasty” parts of this operation.
I am 100% not down with the spiritual crap, but I’m all about the food part. So I’m personally separating the “my water has feelings” and the “mmmm kale chips are tasty” parts of this operation.
No, YOU sound like Sarah Palin.
Really? I believe Sarah Palin believes the world is 5000 years old and created from mud by a sky god; about as irrational as these reiki religionists and equally defensive when their nonsense is exposed.
Ah, okay. Because it seemed like you were siding with those who attack unfamiliar beliefs, practices, and food items as repugnant and un-American.
Sort of like Sarah Palin does.
Nope, I’m mocking irrational quackery and religiousity tarted up as a coffee shop seeking suckers to take money from.
Just grateful it’s not another pho, sushi or hamburger place!!!
Ok, then don’t eat here, don’t eat anywhere that the owners are religious, don’t go to church, and all will be good in your life…troll.
He’ll never know the pleasures of water with memory…. tinyurl.com/yavm3y6
Does pho have memory?
Thrive has somehow managed to last for several years with a nearly identical theme.
Yes, but the market for irrational lunatics who think water has memory is only so big.
The comments on this blog is a nice example of the decline in humanism in our society. If it’s not you’re thing, fine. Just don’t belittle those who are interested in taking charge of your health. Do your homework and you will find that amongst raw foodists, there are very few cases of cancer and other life threatening diseases.