This is a first draft (with minor corrections) and is probably incomplete.
Information is as available 9/95 and subject to change without notice.
Corrections, additions to the list are welcome; information on the South
bay area (San Jose/ Silicon Valley area) would be helpful also.

Raw Food Restaurant:

Raw Living Foods
1224 9th Avenue   (9th/Lincoln, South side of Golden Gate Park)
San Francisco
Phone: 415-665-6519

Raw pizza analogs, raw "kreems": frozen fruits blended, then mixed with
nuts and seeds; selection of salads. Surprisingly elegant; it's not cheap.

Conventional Vegetarian Restaurants with some raw foods dishes:

Millenium
Abigail Hotel
246 McAllister
San Francisco
Phone: 415-861-9728

Now and Zen
1826B Buchanan St.
San Francisco
Phone: 415-922-9696

Now and Zen is a vegan bakery with some raw salads. Millenium is fairly
expensive, however the food is reportedly very good.

Beware of vegetarian Chinese restaurants: most have *no* raw dishes!
Also, some Macrobiotic places have no raw dishes.

Salad Bars:
One would expect that salad bars in regular restaurants in the SF area
would be common. Unfortunately that is not true! Edible raw salads can
be hard to find in restaurants here; San Diego has lots of salad bars,
but not SF.  (Many restaurants do, of course, have a "house salad".
However it is usually very low quality, with head or iceberg lettuce
as the principal ingredient.)

Juice Bars:
Fresh Blend - orange, apple, carrot, wheatgrass. One location in Berkeley.
Appears to be a franchise/chain.
Received a coupon for a new juice bar in Berkeley, Re-Juice-A-Nation,
(nice name!) but don't know if it is open yet, or if it has raw juices.

Raw Juices, primarily orange, carrot, sometimes apple, are widely available
in regular supermarkets, health food stores, and coffee shops, throughout
the SF Bay area. Several brands are available; Odwalla is the leading
brand.  Be sure to read labels to make sure the juice is raw and not past
expiration date.

Wheatgrass Resources:

The Wheat Grass Growers Farm and Depot
1785 15th St.  (15th/Guererro)
San Francisco
Phone:  415-864-3001

Sells wheatgrass, sunflower greens, buckwheat greens, in trays. Also hosts
healthy happy hour every Friday 5-7 PM; wheatgrass juice is $1/ounce; free
rejuvelac and raw munchies. Happy hour features free classes on living
foods, speakers, and live "entertainment" (in quotes only because some of
the music presented there doesn't appeal to my personal taste).

Living Liquids, located in Emeryville, produces wheatgrass juice and
organic carrot juices, which are packaged and sold in many local health
food stores.

Living Foods Support Group:
Monthly raw food potlucks with speakers, also special events. Call
415-751-2806 (Sproutline) for recorded information on latest events.

Organic Produce:
Readily available in many health food stores, produce stores, and some
regular supermarkets.

Berkeley: Whole Foods, Wild Oats stores. Produce stores: Monterey Market
and Berkeley Bowl (both highly recommended; Berkeley Bowl is one of the
finest produce stores in the entire U.S.). Farmer's market every Saturday
on Center Street, downtown.

Palo Alto: Whole Foods and Monterey Market

San Anselmo: Wild Oats

Mill Valley: Whole Foods

San Francisco: Real Foods, Rainbow Grocery; Whole Foods is planned but not
ready yet (9/95). 22nd/Irving is a good produce store. Veritable Vegetable
is a wholesaler of organic produce; individuals can buy there also but you
must buy in bulk - whole cases. Farmer's Market at Embarcadero on Saturdays.
Strange that San Francisco, "the city" as it is called, has no good health
food store (the addition of Whole Foods may eventually correct that).

Tom Billings
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