Nourish Café & Market — Restaurant in Columbia Township

The price-to-tastiness ratio has never been worse. Every negative stereotype about hippie cooking holds true here, from pseudoscience-influenced ingredients (RO water! ) to buzzwords (kale! quinoa! avocado!) to a lack of proper spicing. Sure, holding to a particular diet means giving up certain ingredients, but it doesn't need to mean giving up flavor and proper cooking techniques. Here's a few items my group ordered, and how to fix them. -Veggie pesto wrap: Actually roast the veg, don't steam them. Ditch the stiff GF wrap and put it on salad or maybe a rice-based wrap instead. Toast the garlic before adding it to the pesto. -Tomato-basil soup: Don't overcook the tomatoes, and remove most of the skin. Tone down acidic/metallic off-notes with a little olive oil and a shake of that coconut sugar. Ease off the garlic and use more, fresh basil and oregano. -Avocado toast: Cut your bread thinner and toast it crispier. Or, leave behind that gf bread (it never truly compares) and put it on a nice crisp quinoa patty patty instead. Sprinkle on some sea salt and a few cracks of fresh pepper, mayvm even a little paprika. -Pink lemonade: More beet; it wasn't even pink. Work on that lemon/water/sweetener ratio; the lemon dominated in the extreme. You — both the customer and the restaurant — can do...

The people are nice and the place looks good, but the food is weird, very weird. It’s not that it’s just healthy but it’s just so many flavors of ‘this doesn’t taste right’ where it just becomes too much. I got their breakfast bowl (I can’t remember the name) and I just didn’t expect to get a yogurt consistent bowl with bits of hard broccoli. It just tasted odd, like I’ve had healthy food before but this is just a whole new level.

If you like all of that healthy food then you might like this place, but if you see the reviews and think ‘hey I might give this a try’ but you’re not used to this type of food, I would just save your breathe and not go.

Put it this way. Say you’ve never eaten meat in your life but you want to give it a try. Would you go to either an American restaurant where it would be more relaxed and meat isn’t the only option or a steakhouse where it’s more extreme and there aren’t as many options. In that scenario, this place is...

I went for lunch today with my girlfriend and the guy with glasses at the front register was acting strange. He asked two women in front of me if they were gay, a very out of pocket thing to ask strangers in a restaurant. Especially one he works at. Then it felt like he was eyeing all the women there and didn't really seem interested in talking to the men. Granted you can do what you want. However when going out to eat I don't like feeling like I'm in a viewing gallery of women for this guy, my girlfriend included. Strange behavior that I have never felt elsewhere. Also my girlfriend read about the co-owners after this piqued our interest about the business. It sounds like the owners are very fat phobic. Even the chairs feel that way honestly. I weight 195 and I'm a 6 ft male of a moderate built. I felt like they could barely hold my weight. Deliberate? Hard to say, just an...