"A life without love is like a year without summer"
My absolute favourite time of the year has arrived: Summer. That means sunshine, beach days, luxuriating in nature, less stress, and most importantly in Canada, a better supply of fresh produce. Fruit, fruit, and oh, more fruit! There's nothing more satisfying and replenishing to my body than a fresh source of fructose fuelling me through the many summer activities, mostly spent outdoors for that extra hit of vitamin D. Now, I'm a very active person and always have been. Exercise and moving my body is the best stress-release, personally. Nonetheless, some days are better spent exploring the surroundings of home with good friends and good food.
So as per most mornings, I treated myself to some sugary goodness to hydrate and fuel my body for the upcoming day spent at Kensington Market.
After contemplating for so long on what to get, I was set on a melon, unfortunately, there were none! I was in shock! After wandering for some time, while my vegan fellow, Lisa (plvntbuilt), carried her goods consisting of papaya and mangos, I settled on a salad and soup from one of my favourite restaurants in the area, Hibiscus Cafe.
The salad contains 42 ingredients, including delicious sweet potato, kelp noodles, beans, lentils, greens, broccoli, some seeds and MULBERRIES. I've recently become addicted to mulberries... And when I say addicted, I mean SERIOUSLY addicted.
I have never had a tastier cracker in my life.
This beauty of a soup was sweet potato - coconut and I devoured it so so quickly. Alongside another cracker because those things are seriously the most addicting things, aside from mulberries of course.
In closing, I was, at first, disappointed that I could not satisfy my initial craving for fruit, more specifically, melon, but I was very pleasantly surprised by a comforting, treat of a meal at this delicious and quaint cafe.
The rest of the menu includes many other vegan and vegetarian options, not all the items, however, are 100% cruelty-free but the salad and soup that I enjoyed were completely vegan-friendly. The other options are all crepes with options ranging from sweet crepes made with vegan buckwheat batter, as well as savoury crepes made with the same batter but served with a side of greens, zucchini and avocado.
The best part, in my opinion, of the menu is the beautifully radiant selection of vegan treats and desserts. I didn't end up getting any of these but I have had the privilege to try most of the vegan yummies such as their brownie or ice cream, which I very highly recommend.
Though I follow a high-carb lifestyle and try to keep fats on the DL, I don't feel sick or heavy after eating here and the food is comforting, and yes, does have some HEALTHY fats, but I would much rather go for this over many other options as it is tasty and I know in my mind that my body enjoys it almost as much as my mind does.
All in all, always remember,
Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.
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