Falafel Benny

“Howz dee faylafell?,” Ben Regev yells from behind a glass and granite countertop. Most people can only awkwardly nod as they chew on soft pitas filled with well-seasoned green falafel topped with tahini and a rainbow of fresh and pickled vegetables. As a kid growing up in Israel, Regev used to skip school to work […]

Green Wave Cafe

Raw food continues to grow in popularity, even though its South Florida contingent is small. But Green Wave Café, a Plantation kitchen and organic market that serves raw, vegan lunches, may change that. Chef Lisa Valle takes wholesome, organic produce and creates a small menu that changes daily. Grab a seat at the wide orange […]

J’s Garden Cafe

Whoever said vegetarian food was all raw veggies and tasteless tofu was eating at too many corporate chains. For those truly talented in the culinary arts, vegetarian meals can yield incredible variety and fabulous flavors. Enter J’s Garden Cafe. This mother-daughter effort in Hollywood offers Haitian-Caribbean fare and a holistic approach to eating. It’s not […]

Low Fat No Fat Cafe

Anthony DiCarlo’s Low Fat No Fat Café is winning converts even among slobs who thrive on regular doses of animal fat. The sophisticated décor — polished wood floors, stainless-steel and bamboo accents, 30-foot ceilings — is a deliberate snub to the dowdy health-food restaurants of yore. Organic fruits and veggies, lean beef and chicken, fresh […]

Pizza Fusion

Started in 2006 by two Fort Lauderdale school buddies, Vaughn Lazar and Michael Gordon, Pizza Fusion opened in Deerfield purveying organic pizza. But the guys pushed their concept right to the cutting edge: delivering those organic pizzas in Prius hybrids, powering their website with wind, printing their menus and boxes on recycled paper, using biodegradable […]

Simply Natural

Any health-food store can sell stuff that claims to be good for you. But go to the counter at Simply Natural in Sunrise and you’re liable to find Richard or Shahrooz, the husband-and-wife owners who are not just selling healthy stuff, but creating a community of wholesome living. Together, they have been known to offer […]

Sublime

Gourmet diners in Fort Lauderdale have long had Sublime as their go-to, a restaurant founded by animal rights activist Nanci Alexander and serving an entirely vegan, and partly organic, menu. Sublime has always been beautiful, with its water wall and open brick oven and its inventive list of “healthy” cocktails and organic wines. The food […]

Udipi Cafe

Our version of the national South Indian chain, Udipi serves exotica like the mildly sour iddly, steamed rice and bean-flour cakes dipped in yogurt/coconut chutney and lentil sauces; the vada, fried lentil doughnuts; and paneer pakoras, fingers of homemade cheese in chickpea sauce. There’s “street food” like stuffed puris filled with potatoes, rice, onion, tomatoes, […]

Woodlands Indian Cuisine

This quaint strip-mall eatery out west in Sunrise serves regional South Indian cuisine with a flair for curries and chutneys and an assortment of starches with which to sop it all up. And it’s all vegetarian — yup, no meat whatsoever. There’s vada, fried lentil doughnuts dipped in sambar or rasam; bonda dumplings made of […]