Alive

The green juices looked so pretty all stacked together at the Farmer’s Market, so that’s what I got. I liked the blend of vegs and fruit, but my main complaint was that it was really watered down. I’m pretty sure half of the cup was just melted ice.
$ 5 for watered down green blend? No thanks

Nummy yummy in the tummy.
It’s feel good food.
Get over the fact that it’s not the deep-​fried pork indulgence at the stand behind you. This is straight-​forward, healthy, filling goodness.
Sure, it’s not cheap, but it’s solid.
The hummus/​veggie wraps ($ 8 – 10) and lentil/​kale salads (~$ 12) are all extremely flavorful and colorful!
Grab extra napkins the wraps have a tendency to leak out of their wrappers all over your lap/​shirt. Trust me on this one.
Vegan or not, it satisfies. Gluten-​free? Check. Dairy-​free? Check. Healthy? Check. Delicious? Check.
Best part is: not so filling = room for dessert. The «cheese“cake is a pleasant surprise.

I had the watermelon juice on a beautiful Saturday in the bay. If not in the mood for watermelon juice, they offer other kinds of fresh juice and dishes. Everything seems it was fresh and nothing was added to make it more sweet. It just tasted like watermelon. How good is that?! Alive!

I just had the tangerine-​ginger-​carrot juice here and it was pretty good. They had a bunch of other things I wanted to try like the avocado wrap and the vegan pasta dish. Also worth noting is that I notice they don’t make their dishes fresh. The ones on display are the ones they hand you so it’s kind of a crapshoot as to how long its been sitting there. Luckily, since I just had the juice, it wasn’t as big of an issue. It’s a little pricy ($ 5 for the juice and $ 12 for the pasta), but that is to be expected for vegan and a tourist attraction. Nice addition to the farmer’s market.

I’m suprised that this place only has a few reviews, so here it goes:
Price wise: it is higher than a lot of places that offer the all natural organic type of foods like Alive offers.
But, Alive does offer VERY fresh foods and drinks at their booth. I gave their drinks a try and they taste very fresh and refreshing. But, the $ 5 price tag for something that was less than 16oz seem very expensive.
Their service is good and their booth was quite busy as well. I’d def consider trying the other drinks like the cucumber honeydew drink or the strawberry lemonade too.

Normally I go to the ferry building to do my weekly shopping and have a fabulous brunch. Today I decided to try Alive after having had some of their juices in the past, which were very fresh and tasty.
I was hoping to have something a bit lighter and healthy at this visit so I ordered the avocado wrap. However after attempting to eat this mess of a wrap, i’m not sure that I would eat here again. First of all, a wrap implies that you can eat it like a burrito, in my opinion. I was expecting to be able to eat it neatly with my hands. However it was a droopy, watery mess. The ingredients, which were not bad tasting, some shredded vegetables with avocado and Korean hot sauce, had to be eaten with a fork because they were wrapped in some droopy, wilting lettuce. It would have been impossible to eat with my hands and would have spilled all over me had I attempted to. So I ate the inside of the wrap with a fork since the lettuce was inedible. I was bummed to have paid $ 8 for this and walked away feeling completely unsatisfied.
I give this place two stars because the juices are good and all in all, the wrap, lettuce aside, did not taste too bad. My advice, MAKE THE WRAPS TO ORDER so that the sauce doesn’t soak through and wilt the lettuce. Also, use bigger leaves of lettuce. This way one might actually be able to eat it like a wrap should be eaten.
I’m going back to Primavera next Saturday.

I haven’t been to their actual restaurant… I’ve only bought their stuff from the stands that they have at farmer’s markets and the like, but I like what I have had. It is a bit pricey but so is all raw food. The presentation of the food is incredible. The raw hummus wrap is good but it doesn’t really taste like hummus so don’t eat it expecting it to. It is a huge wrap however and it will fill you up. I haven’t had any of their mini pizza looking things, but they look tasty… maybe I will try one the next time I see one of their stands.

The guy explaining to me what was in their parfait lost me after vegan, organic, raw, something, something, something. Whatever it was, it was mighty good.

I really enjoy raw prepared foods more than salads because a lot of thought and care goes into creating a unique reimagination of a cooked favorite. I may be an omnivore, but I’m also a foodie that appreciates complexity… even if the raw food stand doesn’t include raw meat (hmm… steak tartare!). I enjoyed my sampling from the food stand at the Ferry Building. Not everything is a home run here, but some of the flavor combinations make you go «Wow!» since we often don’t appreciate all those raw veggie flavors together at once.
Pumpkin Lasagna: A full forkful of all the layers will bring you to a point of complexity you’ve never tasted with traditional pasta-​based lasagna! The topping is shiitake mushroom covered in an amazingly fresh tasting sun dried tomato paste sprinkled with kale, blackish red pepper, green tomatoes and red tomatoes. The main component is a pumpkin paste which contains carrot, celery and red cabbage separated from the top by thin zucchini slices. The bottom part is really cool. Not sure what nuts, beans and grains are in it, but it is hearty and adds that needed substantive texture. The was some cauliflower near the bottom too, which I mostly avoided due to the bitterness.
Falafel & Hummus Sandwich: The sandwich base is very seedy, like savory granola. The hummus was standard hummus, which works well to compass the celery, carrots and cabbage. The «falafel» bits mixed in the hummus was kind of dry and chewy, but did have an awesome flavor. Everything on top of the sandwich base worked well in harmony.

I brought my own dish today for my wrap and SUCCESS! I was able to eat my delicious wrap at my desk later & save a tree (or something like that).
Also tried the strawberry lemonade, a little pricey but a lil slice of heaven.
Thank you Alive! Mmmm!

I’ve been to Alive on Lombard St. and still need to post a review. Needless to say, you can tell from my rating that I’m a fan and that prompted me to try this location for lunch since they have a stand there on Tuesdays.
It’s a little bit of a walk from work, but a nice walk on a sunny day. I’ve been twice so far. The first time I tried the Curry Wrap, which was really tasty and surprisingly filling, but not in that «feeling gross» way. I felt really good after eating it! That time they had a refreshing honeydew melon drink that was heavenly.
The second time I decided to try the Hummus Wrap, which was equally tasty, so I would have a hard time deciding which one to have the next time! They have different drinks every week, so this time I tried a drink that I refer to as kale-​ade. It was made with kale, but it also had lime, agave nectar and something else to make it more of a fruity drink than a… well…kale drink. Maybe cucumber? it was very refreshing and went well with the wrap.
It’s kind of pricey ($ 11 for the wrap and the drink), but it’s a nice to treat yourself at lunch once in a while, you know?
I’ll definitely be back to try some of the other offerings… maybe that tasty «pizza» if they have it!