Cafe Sunflower

Did a meet-and-greet this evening with some new friends at Cafe Sunflower, a vegetarian restaurant in Buckhead. They are kind of an institution, doing fun and fresh things with foods, making the vegetarian dishes look great as well as taste great. Because it is in the heart of town, we don’t get down there to eat often.

Sonseeray had a very tasty Sesame Chicken, made up of golden crispy soy chicken with broccoli, mushrooms, snow peas, zucchini, onion and bell pepper in a sweet and spicy sauce with brown rice. She even got to eat it with chopsticks. Hard to tell it was meat-free.

I had Handmade Ravioli that were filled with kaboacha squash, spinach, grilled vegetable and tofu ricotta. Served with roasted shallot marinara, mushrooms, spinach, tomatoes and green beans. The raviolis were huge, about two inches across, and very good. The sauce was composed of actual chunks of tomatoes, and the green beans were perfectly blanced and arranged on top.

We both had soup; Sonseeray tried the cream of mushroom soup and I had the lentil soup. She said her’s was very good, my soup was so-so. I’ve had a hard time finding anyone’s lentil soup that is better than mine. That’s not bragging, because I’m not all that crazy about mine! I want to find or develop a recipe for a really great lentil soup. For now I am still searching.

As for dinner, we talked, we laughed, we shared food stories (one person told of her adventures eating bugs in Thailand), we played trivia. We had a fun time at a nice place that focuses on good food that is good for the body.