Vegan Macrobiotic Valentine Dinner at Seed Bistro
February 3rd, 2012 | 
Author: Are you are looking for a special way to say “I love you” or “I appreciate you” this Valentine’s Day?
Seed Bistro has everything you are looking for — a cozy ambiance with sublimely crafted and delicious foods created by chef Eric Lechasseur, who has cooked for many celebrities who love healthy quality food.
All dishes are vegan, prepared according to the macrobiotic way of cooking. Can you believe it?
Seitan Bourbuignon (French Stew) and Twice Baked Potato Fries are part of this six course menu.
Seitan is Seed’s house made original, but if you don’t want gluten, you can substitute with the Polenta dish.
Also, you can choose brown rice instead of potato.
Reservations will be taken for 5:30pm, 7:30pm and 9:30pm. Must make a reservation, please!
If you have a request to change the course menu, please do so at the time you make your reservation,
so that we may do everything we can to accommodate your needs and tastes.
We look forward to being part of your romantic healthy delicious dining experience!
Love,
Seed Bistro
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Seed Bistro is LA Confidential’s one of Favorite Healthy Eating Restaurants in LA
Seed Bistro was chosen by Los Angeles Confidential magazine’s
one of seven Favorite Healthy Eating Restaurants in LA.
Here is the article for Seed Bistro!
Seed Bistro
We already loved Venice’s casual Seed Kitchen for using sustainable, locally grown, organic produce on its menu, but we were even more thrilled when its owners decided to open a second restaurant in West LA. Like the original, the new kitchen is organic, macrobiotic, and vegan, but with more of a fine-dining ambience that makes it irresistible for sitting and enjoying such dishes as the flageolet bean cassoulet with celery, carrot, and apple “sausage.” 11917 Wilshire Blvd., LA, 310-477-7070; seedbistro.com
Happy New Year 2012
Dear Friends of Seed Kitchen and Bistro,
Happy 2012 to all of you!
May the New Year bring you a seed of happiness, peace, and prosperity.
Wishing you a joyous New Year!
New Year Sunrise from West Ridge Trail of Santa Monica Mountain in 2012
How did you spend your New Year’s Day?
If you were very active last year, you may have taken it easy or maybe it was just a typical New Year’s.
We love tradition. One tradition we are keeping is to watch the New Year’s sunrise. Seeing the majestic New Year’s sunrise from the West Ridge Trail of the Santa Monica Mountains really made us appreciative of our good health and even life itself. Sunrises have such power!
* More photos and details of our New Year’s sunrise on the Eric and Sanae’s macrobiotic cooking “Studio mugen” blog.
Seed Bistro (West LA) – new menu items http://seedbistro.com/
Baja Zucchini Taco (left) and Seitan Asada Taco (right)
Newly added to the menu at Seed Bistro:
- Baja Zucchini Tacos: corn butter fried zucchini, cabbage, pico de gallo, brown rice, salsa and guacamole.
- Seitan Asada Tacos: with cabbage, pico de gallo, brown rice, salsa and guacamole.
- Split Pea Soup
- Blueberry Cashew Crème Brulee
We’ll be adding more sushi items soon.
*For more details or to make a reservation, call 310.477.7070 or email contact@seedbistro.com
Seed Kitchen (Venice) – Brunch Menu http://www.seedkitchen.com/
Brunch at Seed Kitchen
＊For more details, call 310.396.1604 or email contact@seedkitchen.com.
Happy Eating A Seed of Your Life!!!
Love,
Seed
Vegan Macrobiotic Thanksgiving & Holiday Take Home Meal from Seed!
♦♦♦ Thanksgiving & Holiday Special Vegan Macrobiotic Take-Home Meal and Catering from Seed ♦♦♦
Your Holiday catering options are unlimited!
Seed Bistro can create incredible vegan cuisine for your Holiday party.
We can prepare everything from appetizers to full meals for pick up or drop off, or contact us about fully-staffed catering and complete party planning services.
This year, serve and enjoy vegan/macrobiotic food and feel good about yourself throughout the holidays and into the new year!
Example of menu of Take Home Meal: $45 per person includes:
- Chef Eric’s Original House Made Tofu Turkey (not frozen!)
- Wild Rice, Walnut, Savory Vegetables Stuffing
- Shiitake Kuzu Gravy
- Green Beans with Almond and Kale
- Cranberry Chutney Sauce
- Baked Yam
- Sanae’s Traditional Pickles
- Parsnip and Chestnut soup
- Pumpkin Pie Mousse
♥ Everything is made with fresh organic ingredients and labor of love!
Please see photo sample.
* for catering and take home meal, please call at 310-477-7070 or email contact@seedbistro.com
Love, Eric and Sanae
Seed Kitchen’s 3 Year Anniversary
Picture it, November 4th, 2008: Obama had just been elected president and America regained it’s faith in dreaming again. The American Dream had come true for Eric and Sanae too that day, it was when they opened Seed Kitchen in Vencie, CA. This November will mark it’s 3rd year serving Los Angeles’ west side with gourmet vegan grab and go cuisine.
“We just wanted to provide something familiar for everybody, in America, it’s burgers, sandwiches, salads and then we added some infusions of bowls, because I am Japanese,” says Sanae. “The idea is to serve quickly, but there is so much prepping behind it so the customer you can get their food in short amount of time.”
She explains how it takes 4-6 hours to soak the beans and the rice over night, then cook the rice with sea salt and the beans with kombu, a sea vegetable. This is traditional macrobiotic cooking style, which takes a long time, a true labor of love. Then once the rice and beans have cooled, they can be formed in to patties with the other ingredients to make the South West Burger. At Seed Kitchen, we only use stainless steal pots and pans, and you won’t find a microwave in the building.
A lot has grown and expanded since it’s birth, but Seed Kitchen is still committed to it’s core values: making amazing plant based food that is loved by vegans and meat eaters alike. It is considered a “gateway food” from an animal diet to a plant based diet, because you don’t miss the meat taste since it’s so delicious!
Among the changes, Leo has been appointed the new Manager for the front of the house.
How long have you been working at Seed Kitchen here in Venice?
” Two and a half years. Wow!” – He says, shocked at his answer.Have you always been vegan?
“No, I’ve been vegan for the last 8 years.”What changed your eating habbits?
Everything that I’ve learned about the meat industry and how meat and dairy effects our health.
When did you first hear about macrobiotic cooking?
About 4 years ago.
When did you start practicing the lifestyle?
My diet happened to lean toward that way of eating and learning about macrobiotics just kind of deepened my practice of macrobiotics.
What’s your favorite thing on the menu, here at Seed Kitchen?
The SaiSai Donburi Macro Bowl is my favorite.
Thank you Leo for being so honest about your journey with macrobiotic foods!
Please feel free to say hello to TJ and Freddy if Leo isn’t in! They are both vegan and support the macrobiotic lifestyle so if you have any questions about the amazing food you’re tasting, they can help understand all the loving and tedious process in making Seed Kitchen’s food healing and healthy.
We would also like to honor, Omar has been appointed Executive Chef of Seed Kitchen. He manages the kitchen staff and makes sure every dish is delicious!
It has been such an honor serving the Venice community these last three years, we are so grateful for all of our costumers who have helped us clean the community and come to our macrobiotic lectures. It is together we can make a change, but we first must plant the Seed. Thank you so much!
Love,
Everyone at Seed Kitchen!
Community Healthy Lifestyle Support Group
Wednesday, September 28th from 7-8 pm marks the first Community Healthy Lifestyle Support Group at Seed Bistro.
It will be a casual affair for health minded people to come, break bread and talk about their healthy lifestyle. It’s important when starting a healing journey to feel supported, and that there are people out there who have tried something new or healed their bodies before. It’s important that all people come, vegan or not, who feel like they need community. So many people can benefit from changing their diet, changing their words, and changing their environment to make the ultimate change of true healthy and balanced living.
We will be gathering at Seed Bistro’s community table, which as been restored to seat up to 12 people!
We will be meeting every month in the new moon to make new friends and heal together!
Find out more about vegan macrobiotics cooking and life style and share your experiences and ask questions about the vegan macrobiotic.
I am looking forward to meet new faces and connecting with familiar friends!
Love,
Sanae
Seed Bistro’s Grand Opening
We would like to sincerely thank all of those who came out to join us for Seed Bistro’s Grand Opening! Before the doors opened everyone was nervous with excitement for the opening. The phone was ringing off the hook with people wanting reservations.
Seeing the numbers illuminated on the wall is such a magical experience, one of the customers was so excited to see it! You can only see it for one minute before the sun changes directions, but it’s worth getting there early for.
By the time we opened the doors at 5:30 the place was packed with over 50 people and stayed that way until we closed at 10!
Eric was serving the winner of Quarry Girl’s contest at his Chef Table and Sanae was graciously greeting everyone in the room.
There was a happy buzzing energy that filled the place – laughter, toasts and the non-discrete ‘eye-roll-back-in-the-head-with-pleasure’ from many after tasting their first bite! Some of the favorites of the night were the Squash Risotto, Seitan Pepper Steak and Coconut Tumeric Soup.
(Squash Risotto)
Don’t forget dessert with our lovely menu of Apple Tatin (what is a Tatin? It’s an upside down apple pie!) Lemon Meringue Almond Cake and Chocolate Mousse with Pistachio Parline.
(Chocolate Mousse)
Thanks again to everyone who came and supported Seed Bistro’s Grand Opening last night! We look forward to spending many great meals with you!
Love always,
Chef Eric & Sanae
Seed Bistro makes VegNews Top 10 Hot New Vegan Restaurants!
It’s true! VegNews voted Seed Bistro one of the top 10 hot new vegan restaurants in the USA! We can’t believe it, we’re not even open! We are planning to open for dinner in the new moon, on Monday, August 29th 2011 at 5:30pm.
We are so happy show you one of the new dishes! It tastes so unbelievably good and will make you happy when you eat it!
(Kale, Quinoa, Avocado, Lemon, Wasabe, Nori, Dill Salad)
The menu will include items from around the world such as risotto, polenta, sushi, green hummus and gluten-free Bolognese. The drink menu is now of age with beer, wine and sake and Chef Eric will have his own area called the Chef’s Table, serving 4-6 course Chef’s Menu to a lucky 6 customers.
Here is Chef Eric finalizing his food with his new kitchen staff!
We have been so busy putting in all of the final touches to the restaurant, it is finally starting to feel like a member of the Seed Restaurant family. There is restored wood fixtures and rustic metal sculptures as well as original seed decorations.
As we are getting closer and closer to the opening, people have been calling for reservations already! We will start taking reservations on Wednesday August 24th from 12-6 pm! If you want to be the first to experience one of the countries top new vegan restaurant, please call 310-477-7070 to make a reservation!
Our dinner hours are:
Monday – Saturday – 5:30-10:00 pm
Sunday – Closed
Lunch will begin September 12th – 11:30 am – 2:00pm.
Thank you so much for all of your love and support! More photo’s coming soon!
See you soon!!!
Love,
Seed Bistro
11917 Wilshire Blvd. West Los Angeles, CA 90025
Seed Bistro Press Release
The time has come! We are happy to finally announce the location for our new restaurant, SEED BISTRO!
Dan Cox (Public Relations) presents all of the new and exciting details in his press release.
Seed Bistro sets the trend for vegan cooking in LA. Cox describes the new Bistro as “finest in contemporary vegetarian and vegan cooking, all within the walls of his cheerful new bistro setting.”
The menu is upscale and contemporary including some dishes that are gluten-free, raw and of course all are vegan! It is a bit more fine dining than it’s sister, Seed Kitchen. Cox notes that the menu “dinner menu will include small plates (pates, olives, and perhaps Eric’s PETA award winning Faux Gras will be served as a special), vegetarian sushi, and salads, as well as much more elaborate entrée offerings such Paella, Flageolet cassoulet, and squash risotto.”
The Bistro will also serve gluten-free beer, exclusive organic vegan wine, and “the intimate space will include a six-seater chef’s table for nightly tasting menus.” – The Los Angeles Grub Street. The Chef’s menu will include 4-7 courses of new and exciting vegan food with a macrobiotic flare, prepared before guests eyes, and served by Chef Eric and his assistant.
SEED BISTRO is tentatively scheduled to open to the public the last week of August, 2011. Further details, hours of operation, menus, and interior photos to arrive soon.
SEED BISTRO is located at 11917 Wilshire Boulevard
Seed bistro
On July 11, 2011, we have posted about our second restaurant “Seed bistro” to be open the end of Aug. on Facebook. Wow, so many people have clicked “like” and posted comments.
In case you missed it here is one for you.
Seed kitchen is proud to announce a new restaurant, Seed bistro, located in West LA near Brentwood, with easy access from the 405 Freeway.
At Seed Bistro you will enjoy a full service dining experience, lunch and dinner.
Chef Eric Lechasseur and Sanae Suzuki have created exciting new organic vegan macrobiotic food, elegantly presented, with your health and enjoyment in mind. The menu includes starters, small plates, entrees, course menus and sublime desserts, organic vegan sake, beer and wines. Some wines are sold exclusively to Seed bistro.
The restaurant is projected to open in the new moon toward the end of August to the beginning of September. Keep up to date on Facebook, Twitter and our blog for the latest news about Seed bistro, its location, and opening date. It is truly amazing for us to share Eric and Sanae’s dream with all of you. We are so excited it!!
Thank you so much for your love and support.
Love, Seed kitchen ♥
