nurturetruth
04-01-2008, 02:53 PM
So last night, "lifequest" and I went for a nice journey to the coast.
Went to a trial head called "Pinnacle Gulch" which was fabulous! Spring was beautiful and evident, hawks were soaring in the sky, saw 2 large crabs, found beautiful shells and played with building rock structures.
Afterwards, we decided to finally hit the new Indian restaurant, Namaste' Cafe in Petaluma, as lifequest is very familiar with my passion for Indian Food. (I eat 80% live raw food. the other 20% is indian food! :thumbsup:)
We also had a coupon for "Buy one entree, get one free" coupon to appreciate and put to good use.
The Namaste' Cafe is located at 1390 N. Mcdowell Blvd and is nested amongst the shopping center in a cute little small space that sits about 7 tables.
When we got there at around 5:45pm , it was fairly busy. A good sign for a week night, as it indicated to me that it was a well liked place!
We got situated to look at the one page (front and back) menu. I was surprised to see that drinks were not listed on the menu. Even a little more surprised that the kind server took our drink order without ever noticing we did not have water. We decided to see how long it would take for someone to notice. Finally, my dear "lifequest" had to just politely ask for his water . Lifequest mentioned to me that his water even tasted a bit like chlorine! Suppose it was the petaluma tap water like most restaurants in that area serve. Would really be GREAT if Namate' invested in a water filter! Luckily, I had brought my own...WHEW!
And in my opinion , the food was a bit bland in comparison to other places I have been and enjoyed. Disappointingly, the Raita was not near as good as I am accustomed to, nor was the naan. And there were only 2 selections of naan on the menu. I have also had better mango lassi's in my days. And I found myself longing for brown rice to be added to the menu as an option/alternative.
I will say this restaurant is no where in comparison to my favorite local thus far, the sebastopol Himalayan and Tandoori Restaurant ! ( which uses organic salad greens, and is very tasty with attentive service)
The Samosos I ordered at Namaste' were good though... and the mango chutney recipe was yummy wonderful !
and ...the MOST interesting and FUN part of our night at Namaste' Cafe was when I went up to the host /owner to ask a question. I offered him a bow/nod with my head and then a "namaste' bow".
He grinned real big. He asked me, "Are you from Sebastopol?"
I replied with a " yeah..do i dress like one? how can you tell?"
He grinned again and said.." you do the namaste' bow and nod your head. no one does that except people from Sebastopol !"
:):
By the By... IF you are EVER in FAIRFAX... they have a new really awesome ALL ORGANIC Indian Restaurant called .. "Cafe Lotus".
Their menu is available from their online website for download.
Even their meats are organic and hormone free and they have eco-organic brown rice! :thumbsup:
By far the BEST of the BEST tasting Indian Food. And they have pesto Naan which is highly addictive!
Went to a trial head called "Pinnacle Gulch" which was fabulous! Spring was beautiful and evident, hawks were soaring in the sky, saw 2 large crabs, found beautiful shells and played with building rock structures.
Afterwards, we decided to finally hit the new Indian restaurant, Namaste' Cafe in Petaluma, as lifequest is very familiar with my passion for Indian Food. (I eat 80% live raw food. the other 20% is indian food! :thumbsup:)
We also had a coupon for "Buy one entree, get one free" coupon to appreciate and put to good use.
The Namaste' Cafe is located at 1390 N. Mcdowell Blvd and is nested amongst the shopping center in a cute little small space that sits about 7 tables.
When we got there at around 5:45pm , it was fairly busy. A good sign for a week night, as it indicated to me that it was a well liked place!
We got situated to look at the one page (front and back) menu. I was surprised to see that drinks were not listed on the menu. Even a little more surprised that the kind server took our drink order without ever noticing we did not have water. We decided to see how long it would take for someone to notice. Finally, my dear "lifequest" had to just politely ask for his water . Lifequest mentioned to me that his water even tasted a bit like chlorine! Suppose it was the petaluma tap water like most restaurants in that area serve. Would really be GREAT if Namate' invested in a water filter! Luckily, I had brought my own...WHEW!
And in my opinion , the food was a bit bland in comparison to other places I have been and enjoyed. Disappointingly, the Raita was not near as good as I am accustomed to, nor was the naan. And there were only 2 selections of naan on the menu. I have also had better mango lassi's in my days. And I found myself longing for brown rice to be added to the menu as an option/alternative.
I will say this restaurant is no where in comparison to my favorite local thus far, the sebastopol Himalayan and Tandoori Restaurant ! ( which uses organic salad greens, and is very tasty with attentive service)
The Samosos I ordered at Namaste' were good though... and the mango chutney recipe was yummy wonderful !
and ...the MOST interesting and FUN part of our night at Namaste' Cafe was when I went up to the host /owner to ask a question. I offered him a bow/nod with my head and then a "namaste' bow".
He grinned real big. He asked me, "Are you from Sebastopol?"
I replied with a " yeah..do i dress like one? how can you tell?"
He grinned again and said.." you do the namaste' bow and nod your head. no one does that except people from Sebastopol !"
:):
By the By... IF you are EVER in FAIRFAX... they have a new really awesome ALL ORGANIC Indian Restaurant called .. "Cafe Lotus".
Their menu is available from their online website for download.
Even their meats are organic and hormone free and they have eco-organic brown rice! :thumbsup:
By far the BEST of the BEST tasting Indian Food. And they have pesto Naan which is highly addictive!