Sal Anthony’s Live Raw Organic Kitchen

I tried this place once and only once. Waste of money, sadly. I had the pasta with cashew cream or whatever it was. wow, was that thing bland. they give you a lot of food, but i couldn’t even see the «cream». it was water! eh, the guy seems nice. but he needs to get better food.

I’ve been raw since Nov. 2008. I’ve been to all the raw restaurants in NYC and I’ve got to say this place is really unimpressive. I tried it twice.
I’m all for recycling but reusing the waste from the juicer to make bread just ain’t worth the recycle. If they are using a good industrial juicer, the juicer should be extracting everything out of the juice and leaving behind the pulp only… I’m no expert but this is what it feels like to me. The fresh veggie juice was good and the soup was good too, but other than that, I’m gonna pass and continue to eat at Quintessence and Pure Food.

Very good food. Definitely a great summer spot since their cuisine is light and refreshing. Their Sun Burger and Funghi Pizzetta is a must try!

If I’m embarassed to have eaten here, how must Sal Anthony feel? Thankfully I think this place has gone out of business.
I love eating raw, but the dishes here were sooooo bland. Dining partner got the risotto, I got the tuscan soup and zucchini spaghetti. The risotto was like «glop» and essentially flavorless. A lot could have been done to enhance that dish. Usually a zucchini «pasta» would be served room temperature or slightly warmer, but mine was cold, and was like a dry zucchini salad with salsa on top. Ew…
The atmosphere was kinda weird. It was very unclear if there was table service, since there was also a counter to order from, and we had to go up to ask for water…
On the way out I needed one saving grace, and figured the nut-​based «ice cream» wouldn’t fail me. This should never have been sold to a customer. It was solid as a rock, I had to scrape at it with my teeth, and didn’t melt in my mouth, but turned into a loose pile of sand. They should call it «Ice Rock»
Got the raw deal at Sal’s.

YAK! BAD! BEWARE! FOOD POISON!
I’m a yogi and vegetarian for many years. I saw the Organic Raw foods sign on the street of 17^st,
so I stop by and grab the Organic Soup.$ 5 small container.
Taste wasn’t that bad But few hours later I was having stomach ache and going to bathroom every 10 minutes.
It was a first meal that day, I had really bad experience.
Do not Recommend this place!
Nowadays every restaurant trying to be Organic, Vegan or Raw Foods.
Because It’s POPULAR!
BEWARE these TRENDY HEALTHY WANNA BE SPOTS!
You gonna lose your money and your health same time!
They might use organic Ingredients But may be years old?
There might be roaches, rats, and filthy kitchen!
or They don’t know how to cook, Only the Good Taste…
I recommend SOUEN ON 13TH STREET & UNIVERSITY PLACE.
THEIR FOODS IS UNBELIEBABLE GOOD AND HEALTHY!
I’VE BEEN GOING THERE OVER 10 YEARS!
NEVER HAD A PROBLEM!
BEST REAL HEALTHY FOODS IN NYC!
WORST!

Working in the Union Square neighborhood for over 7 years, I am quite spoiled with a never ending opening of new restaurants to tempt the new yorks of the lunch, dinner and after work scene of this neighborhood…
and today in the pouring rain — I found Sal’s Raw food kitchen… so what the hell — I knew I’d be the First to Review since it just opened.
I will definitley go back– I had the artichoke Adelina — stuffed with brown rice, raisins and pine nuts… it was great, it came wiht some seed crackers.
All the mains looked tempting and a patron’s soup looked really good.
Amazingly for a Raw– healthy food joint– the service was FAST and friendly… usually the healthy places are so slow– but not here. the take out came quickly and in eco — friendly containers.
I like this place and hope to give it 5 stars when I try more things… the smoothies are a bit expensive — but the ingredients are so unusual that it must be worth it.
will try soon the nori rolls, collard wraps, salads, pizza and yummy looking desserts– they are Italian after all!!! so even LIVE RAW is great.