Greening Austin Daily

Mr. Natural Visit

22nd December, 2010 - Posted by katherine - No Comments

I’ve been doing a poor job of keeping up with restaurant review Friday (and not for want of eating my way across Austin, which I’ve been doing plenty of.) Mostly I’ve just been really busy and haven’t had the time to post pictures and all that.  So I thought I would share a couple of pics from my recent visit to Mr. Natural.  If you’ve never been there, Mr. Natural is located on east Cesar Chavez  (1901 E. Cesar Chavez to be exact), and is a great choice if you’re in the area.  Their website says:

In a simple, relaxed environment located just 5 minutes from downtown Austin, Mr. Natural is a natural foods restaurant, bakery, juice bar and health food store all rolled into one. Our award-winning vegetarian restaurant offers non-dairy, wheat-free, vegan or vegetarian food using all natural ingredients in unique Mexican vegetarian dishes. Mr. Natural caters, makes it to go, we can even mail it to you. When it comes to Mr. Natural’s Bakery, you probably won’t find a healthier selection of vegetarian baked goods anywhere. Come check out our selection of natural drinks, meat-substitute entrees, vitamin and mineral supplements and other herbal products in our Health Food Store. Mr. Natural also offers  yoga and meditation classes in our Meditation Room.

From the description, you may think it’s run by/filled with stuck-up, self-righteous hippies, but nothing could be further from the truth. I’ve always found the people there to be very down-to-earth, regular, friendly people.  On my recent visit I grabbed a sweet potatoe empanada, which was delicious – the dough was surprisingly sweet and the whole thing was very filling. I also grabbed a gingerbread man which was also tasty although I’m partial to my own gingerbread recipe.

They had a lot of fresh salads, and also some great pastries for Christmas gifts, like fuit cake and cookie packages. I saw these breads which looked good.

Check it out!