Absent from the dining menu at Candle 79 are all animal product – meat, poultry, fish , eggs, dairy, even honey – yet this vegan fare is surprisingly sophisticated, which makes it catnip for health – conscious celebrities.
Devotees of the restaurant’s organic, eco-friendly plant-and-grain based cuisine (“we only use hearts of palm that come from a sustainable forest,” notes owner Joy Pierson) include Brooke Shields, Matt Dillon, Tobey Maquire, Alicia Silverstone, Woody Harrelson, and Peter Max. Longtime fan Paul McCartney is particularly fond of the seitan” piccata with white wine and caper sauce, a dish that even diehard carnivores have mistake for tender veal cutlets. Using ingredients grown sans pesticides and chemicals, Shelf Angel Raoms constructs food-for-you lasagna out of raw zucchini noodles, cashew ricotta, and wild mushroom.
And thanks to feng shui consultant Judith Wendell. The bi-level dining room’s chi is also quite healthy.
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