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Cafe Gratitude

An LA plant-based restaurant operating since 2004 — two current locations (Venice + Larchmont) — built around organic and seasonal ingredients with an affirmation-based menu (dishes named 'I Am Loving', 'I Am Whole', 'I Am Generous'). The brand and the practice are inseparable: ordering the food is the affirmation.

What they do

Cafe Gratitude is a plant-based restaurant founded in 2004, currently with two LA locations (Venice and Larchmont). The menu is famously structured around affirmations — every dish is named after a self-statement (“I Am Whole” is the bowl, “I Am Loving” is the bowl, “I Am Grateful” is the entrée). Servers ask “What are you grateful for?” with the check. The food is fully vegan, largely organic, and built on seasonal produce.

Why it’s listed

A plant-based restaurant whose business [[eating-the-landscape|identity]] is bound up with an explicit emotional/spiritual practice is rare and distinctive. The affirmation menu is either deeply moving or comically theatrical depending on where you stand, but it’s stayed coherent across two decades — the brand and the practice are inseparable, and the LA plant-based scene wouldn’t be the same without it. [[directory|The directory]] surfaces operations whose mission shows up at the menu level, not just in marketing copy.

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  • Instance of: [[vegan]]
  • Shares approach with: [[native-foods-cafe]]
  • Member of: [[business]]
  • Contained by: [[los-angeles-basin]]

Sources

Related concepts: [[vegan]] · [[organic-agriculture]].

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