Seed Bistro on Wilshire Location Closing
April 24th, 2012 | 
Author: Chef Eric Lechasseur would like to THANK the many friends and supporters who have arrived at Seed Bistro on Wilshire location over the previous months for their love, generosity, and invaluable support. It has been a true labor of love for us to pursue our dreams. However, we have received surprising notice from our former business partners in Japan that this location will be closed, effective April 28, 2012.
After great thought and consideration, we have elected to abide by their decision and close this location. We have already begun the process of scouting a new location, a location that will include the restaurant as an integral piece of a larger health and wellness center, as per our original vision for Seed Bistro. As details arrive, we hope to share them with you as soon as possible. Again, we thank you sincerely for your very generous support of Seed Bistro on Wilshire location.
Note from Eric and Sanae:
We are fortunate to have had the chance to open Seed Bistro on Wilshire Blvd. We have worked tirelessly to open Seed Bistro and have kept the business going for the last 8 months. Eric has been working 100-hour weeks. The economy has made it a challenging time, but the business has been slowly picking up and we had a great review on VegNews and were chosen by ZAGAT recently.
We wish we could keep it open and offer the wonderful foods and ambiance…
It is unfortunately that the investor decided to close so soon and did not give us more time.
We really thank you for believing in us and supporting us for many years…if you have just found out about us recently, we hope you will stay in touch with us for more healthy, delicious ideas and creations.
Closing this Seed Bistro on Wilshire Blvd. is the beginning of our new chapter .
Please come and enjoy Seed Bistro—Saturday, April 28 is our finale night (MUST MAKE A RESERVATION)!
We look forward to re-opening Seed Bistro with a wellness/healing center at a new location.
We will keep Seed Bistro’s website and facebook page so we can definitely keep you posted.
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Seed-bistro/193402580719734
Seed Kitchen in Venice will remain open and we will have new menu soon.
Open 10am to 9pm daily, except on holidays.
http://www.facebook.com/pages/seed-kitchen/54589022108
We thank you from the bottom of our hearts.
Love, Eric and Sanae ♥♥♥
Seed Bistro on Wilshire location inside recent photo:
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Vegan Crispy Brown Rice Sushi!!!
Chef Eric did it again.
This Spicy Temphe on Crispy Brown Rice Sushi is soooo good YOU MUST COME to TASTE IT!!!!!
Usually sushi restaurant offer spicy tuna on crispy white rice, but Seed Bistro is not just vegan, but macrobiotic so here it is for you “CRISPY BROWN RICE”.
Chef Eric also came up Sushi Ginger without sugar!
Come and try Seed Bistro’s food.
Here is video from Eco-vegan gal, Whitney’s video about Seed Bistro.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrUtE9tE2m8
Happy Vegan Macrobiotics!!!
Check our the other blog for Chef Eric and his wife, Sanae’s more personal and workshop blog!
Vegan Macrobiotic Valentine Dinner at Seed Bistro
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
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
