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Last week, during my stay in Brighton I visited the Aloka Quality of Life Centre’s Restaurant. I had walked past it earlier in the week and suggested to the lovely Cat that we have our blogger meet up there.

The Aloka Centre includes an evening restaurant, day time cafe, treatment rooms, a yoga studio and a crystal and cosmetics shop.

The restaurant serves exclusively seasonal vegan food with options for many raw dishes. On first impressions we were very impressed with the interior which was clean and chic:

After ordering our meals we were presented with a raw amuse bouche of seaweed topped with grated apple, diakon and gooseberry:

As you can see the presentation was beautiful! This was delicious, I’d never tried that kind of seaweed before it was lovely with a mild ‘sea’ flavour. Next up was our starter (we both ordered the same dish) of raw spicy carrot dip with raw crackers for dipping:

Again, this was absolutely wonderful, a good size portion too! I loved the raw crackers, as if I needed more convincing to purchase a dehydrator ;-)

For my main course I ordered the Zen Buddha Bowl which consisted of sticky brown rice topped with roast hokkadio squash, steamed nettle, marinaded seaweed, tender stem broccoli, diakon and beetroot pickle and roasted lotus root chips. It also came with a bowl of barley miso broth with ginger, spinach, black sesame seeds and silken tofu:

This was just out of this world delicious, the mix of unusual and exotic flavours was so good! Cat ordered the completely raw Botanical Living Special:

Just look at the beautiful presentation! Cat said she loved this dish too :-)

However nothing could have prepared us for the deliciousness that was dessert:

Raw vegan chocolate mint cheesecake! Oh my god there are simply no words good enough to describe this. It was simply sensational and may just be the most delicious thing I have ever eaten. It was perfect, from the balance of chocolate and mint flavours to its creaminess and texture and delicate crunch from the base, just heavenly. 

Me and the wonderful Cat getting ready to dig in!

The entire meal plus drinks and a tip came to just £30 each which considering the decent portion sizes, quality and presentation of the food is outstanding value in my opinion.

Both myself and Cat agreed that this was probably one of the best meals we had ever enjoyed. I think the fact that we had no idea what to expect and were so pleasantly surprised at what we got made it all the better.

The service we received was also outstanding, the waitress had a great knowledge of all the dishes and ingredients.

I loved the place so much I decided to return to the Cafe for lunch the next day and again, it didn’t disappoint!

I would whole heartedly recommend this restaurant to any lover of exotic or veggie and vegan food.

When was your last most memorable meal and why? The meal we enjoyed after our wedding in Italy was pretty outstanding but this was just amazing! 

Do you have a favourite restaurant? What makes it so special?