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Dallas raw/vegan restaurant to invade Houston, owner decries tasteless stuff inother spots
The former VSpot in Dallas, before getting locked out for not paying rentVSPOT Cafe/Facebook
Raw food tacos at Bliss Raw BarVSPOT Cafe/Facebook
Pisarro says her cafe in Houston will have a juice bar as well as raw and cookedvegan menus.VSPOT Cafe/Facebook
If your only impression of the raw food movement came via Sex and the City — in which hot waiter Smith was more of a draw than the unheated food — then Delia Pisarro wants to change your mind.
Pisarro is planning to open a raw and vegan restaurant in Houston in December, combining the menus from her two former Dallas restaurants, Bliss Raw Café & Elixir Bar and VSpot Vegan Cafe.
The concept will not quite be the first raw food option in town — Green Seed Vegan has thrived since going from food truck to a brick-and-mortar shop on Almeda, Pat Greer's Kitchen in midtown has become known for take-away food and there's another small raw food cafe in the back of a cardiac clinic in south Houston, as well as a couple places that tried and failed.
"People think about vegan food and are like, blehh," Pisarro says. "It's a lot of tasteless shit. My food has flavor."
But Pisarro's concept would be the first boutique-style raw cafe in the granola-friendly Montrose area, though she's still finalizing the exact location.
Pisarro sold Bliss in 2011 and tells CultureMap she sold VSpot this summer, but not before the Knox-Henderson area restaurant was locked out for owing over $50,000 in unpaid rent. (Pisarro says she "ran into some problems" at that location with her former chef/managing partner.)
The Houston concept will feature two full menus — one of raw foods, like Pisarro's coconut kale enchiladas and Asian-style bowls and another featuring cooked vegan fare including mushroom tacos and an eggplant stack, plus a juice bar with coffee and tea.
"People think about vegan food and are like, blehh," Pisarro says. "It's a lot of tasteless shit. My food has flavor."
