Present Moment Gift Cards
Need that last minute gift for your favorite vegan/vegatarian!! Trust me, They will LOVE you for it!! Nothing better than the Gift of Health and Wellness!!!
Give a special gift to your loved ones, the gift of great tasting, healthy food!
Gift cards are available in $25, $50, and $100 increments. When you purchase a $100 gift card you receive an extra $10 to use on that card!
As you place your purchase, if you need the gift certificate mailed to a friend, please be sure to include their shipping address during the check-out process.
First Friday Artwalk – 1/6/12 – Live Music!!
Its that time again!! The First Artwalk of the New Year!!
Join us inside for warmth, great food, a peacefully sophisticated atmosphere…and…..Aslyn and The Naysayers!!
Playing Bluegrass with Flair mixed with an Americana Blues Edge from 9:30pm until 12am.
Friday, January 6th 2012
See You There!
Take Home Holiday Pies ~ Place Your Order Today
Pre-order 48hrs advance:{Or Check Our Deli Case}
8” pies serve 8-10 people = $38
Flavorful – Gluten free & Dairy Free!!
Yummy RAWsome Pies Available:
Better Than Pumpkin
Chocolate Ganache
PeaNot Butter pie (has roasted sunflower butter instead of peanuts)
Make it a la mode
Take home a 10 oz container of our ice cream for $9.00
BEST OF Jacksonville 2011 – Vegan/Vegetarian Restaurant! THANK YOU!!
Best Vegan/Vegetarian Restaurant
The Present Moment Café
There’s something to be said for an establishment that can make fettuccini Alfredo from fresh zucchini pasta, pesto, sun-cured tomatoes and a pinenut “parmesan” taste way better than anything you could get at most Italian restaurants. Welcome to Present Moment Café on West King Street in St. Augustine, an innovative vegan, vegetarian, organic and raw restaurant. Trust us, you could never imagine how delicious no-bean chili, a sunlight burger or a brownie sundae with cashew vanilla ice cream could possibly be.
— Kara Pound {Staff Writer / Folio Weekly}
Sign Up Today for The 2011 Garden Diet 28 Day Raw Transition Program ~ Lose 10 – 20 pounds in just 3 WEEKS!!
Go Raw AND Lose Weight easily and safely with Raw foods, Exercise and Well-being practices!
Fall Session Starts Monday October 31st 2011
The Garden Diet’s Fall “Go Raw” Programs – are a series of two programs with a track record of helping hundreds of people go raw and lose weight
EMPOWER YOURSELF RAW!!
The “Go Raw” Programs are The 21 Day Cleanse and The 28 Day Transition-to-Raw Program, which run back-to-back starting October 31, 2011.
You don’t need our Programs to go raw, but if you feel you would be much more likely to go raw successfully with experienced guidance, delicious recipes, and a menu plan and shopping lists to make your raw transition easier, then doing the 28 Day Raw Program could be the best thing you’ll ever do for your health.
The upcoming program starts on 10/31 – that’s just a week from this coming Monday! – so click below now to check it out now. The before-and-after pictures on the site are pretty amazing.
The Program encompasses Thanksgiving, so there is a special free gift that comes with this session; a 5-part video series featuring a 5-course raw vegan Thanksgiving feast!
Finally, don’t be scared off by the dollar value of each module. At the bottom of the page, you’ll find a super-low early bird special — which is good until midnight Friday 10/28. It’s just a tiny fraction of the total value.
Click here to find out more:
Go Raw PMC
GO RAW AND STAY RAW WITH GREAT RECIPES! AWESOME WORKOUTS! AND TOTAL INSPIRATION!!
★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★
The Garden Diet Programs include a balanced fresh-food approach to the raw vegan plant-based diet that allows you to….
- lose weight
- go raw safely and easily with expert guidance
- go raw without experiencing uncomfortable detox symptoms
- go raw and stay raw with no cravings
- get through emotional detox with online support
- get through or even avoid physical detox symptoms (detox crisis)
- heal from disease
- achieve maximum health
- become your most beautiful
- enjoy glowing skin, hair and nails
- see your eyes become bright and clear
- look like a fitness model
- see your skin tone become more youthful
- experience longevity and anti-aging
- feast on easy and delicious plant-based recipes
- enjoy following a balanced, nutritious and satisfying raw diet menu plan
The raw food diet was voted by a panel of 11 doctors as one of the 3 safest diets in the world (even if you have diabetes, or you’re nursing or pregnant).
There are many raw diets out there, but there is no other raw diet that was designed by a 61 year old 40-year raw veteran who has been eating raw for longer than most raw educators have been alive! Meet Storm, the creator of The Garden Diet on the 28 Days Raw website link below and you’ll be amazed!
Enjoy 7 weeks of habit-changing, life-transforming health, well-being, and goodness!
For more info, testimonials, before and afters, and registration, just follow the link below.
I am SO excited to share this Program with you!
Namaste ~ Yvette
Visit The Garden Diet through this link – Cheers to a New You!
Eric Rothwarf, Before, 30’s and After, 48!
Here is what people have said about the programs….
★ “I want to thank you for introducing me to the raw foods lifestyle!!!! I’ve been raw for 3 months now & I’ve NEVER felt so healthy! I’ve lost 28 lbs and have tons of energy! (I need all the energy I can get! I work at a preschool teaching 2 yr olds! ) Thank you again!!!”
- Kelzy
★ “I am able to move without pain for the first time in years”
- Jeff
Calling for Feedback!
Spring is upon us here in the Oldest City! West King Street is finally and officially open to traffic in both directions and we are Super Excited about what the rest of 2010 has to bring!
We here at The Present Moment Cafe want to know, from you – our awesome patrons! – What you favorite dish is, as we are running a “Specials Promo” to give back to you for being a part of the Present Moment Experience!
So Here’s the Question for Spring?
Have you had a special at the cafe which you would like to order again?
like…
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“Living Lasagna”
“Nachos”
“Pizza”
“Tamale”
Give us 48 hour notice and we will run it as a lunch or dinner special!
Just shoot us an email: yvette@thepresentmomentcafe.com and we’ll get back to you. You can invite your friends for a special lunch or dinner per your request.
Thanks! We look forward to seeing all your smiling faces this spring!!
Kindest regards,
The RAWk Stars of The Present Moment Cafe
Present Moment Cafe Reviewed in Folio Weekly
August 11-17, 2009 FOLIO WEEKLY p39
RAW DEAL
written by Anne Schindler – (No relation)
YVETTE SCHINDLER
Executive Chef, Present Moment Café
“One of my favorite things to do is eat.”
Seated in a sunlit corner of her organic, vegan, raw-food restaurant, Yvette Schindler talks food like some people eat it: with passion, focus and gusto. She regards food as both spiritual and medicinal, and takes pleasure in exploring all of its symbolic and societal permutations — from the lessons a little girl takes from watching her mother prepare food to the wrenching environmental impacts of the modern-day industrial food complex. But, despite a gift for interpreting and talking about food, Schindler’s passion is eating — and sharing — it.
The fact that her St. Augustine restaurant serves cuisine most people have never eaten, and some willfully misunderstand, doesn’t discourage her. Her goal is not to convince people of the benefits of eating raw, but to seduce them with the idea.
“I didn’t just want to open a restaurant. I’d done that,” says Schindler, who ran a macrobiotic restaurant in Santa Fe, N.M., for four years, among other culinary endeavors. “It had to be really good. It had to be delicious.”
The concept behind the raw food movement is that the enzymes contained in whole foods are physically, even psychologically transformative. Those enzymes are destroyed when food is cooked or even heated above 130 degrees. In order to preserve the socalled “life force” of the food, raw food devotees eat only meals prepared with uncooked fruits and vegetables.
The diet can seem extreme, especially to a culture raised on processed foods. Even Schindler admits she initially found the rawfood mantra somewhat radical. But after “going raw” for a three-month trial, Schindler says, she was a believer. For one, her longtime arthritis disappeared. And she was suffused with a feeling of joy and empathy that she describes as “a high — an altered consciousness.”
Schindler and her son Nathan were so transformed by the diet, they decided to open a restaurant to share that they’d learned. Before doing so, Schindler visited every raw-food restaurant she could find on both coasts. She also trained alongside gourmet raw-food gourmet chef Chad Sarno, who’s been featured in magazines from GQ to Cosmo.
The café’s menu reflects Schindler’s international palate, as well as her passion for gourmet preparation. Among her favorites items are the Sunlight Burger ($12, made from walnuts, sunflower seeds, almonds, carrots and zucchini, and topped with vegan “provolone” and caramelized onions) and the Creamy White
Truffle Pesto Pasta ($11, made from zucchini pasta, sun-dried tomatoes and pine nuts.) The menu also features Pad Thai, tacos, even a Brownie Sunday (prepared with a coconut base and cashew vanilla “ice cream”).
“I don’t want people to feel like, ‘I gotta go eat this food because it’s healthy,” she says. “I want them to come because it makes them feel good to eat it.” Though Schindler is a dedicated raw foodie, she’s not rigid. Her diet is about “95 percent raw,” and she reserves that remaining 5 percent for those situations when she
can’t avoid conventional food. If her aunt offers her a homemade chocolate chip cookie, she says, or if someone prepares her a meal in their home, she won’t refuse. Food is, above all, an expression of love, she says.
For Northeast Florida, Schindler’s love of eating — and feeding — is everyone’s gain.
Anne Schindler
(No relation)
Past Events in The Present Moment!
SATURDAY’S TOPIC: Superfoods: The Food and Medicine of the Future
The Superfoods: Goji berries, Cacao beans (raw chocolate), Maca, Marine Phytoplankton, Aloe Vera, Noni, Spirulina, Blue-Green Algae, Bee Pollen, Kelp, Hempseeds
The Superherbs: Mangosteen, Medicinal Mushrooms, Pau D’Arco, Una da Gato, and much more.
How to take advantage of the greatest abundance of delicious natural foods in human history.
Discover how, with a simple blender, you can get the best nutrition ever while having fun.
Conquer candida, inflammation, restore bone health, create healthy joints, lose weight, and reverse aging with superfoods and superherbs!
David Wolfe — Health, Eco, Nutrition, and Natural Beauty Expert
CO-FOUNDER: TheBestDayEver.com Online Health Magazine
PRESIDENT: The Fruit Tree Planting Foundation (www.ftpf.org)
“With a masters degree in nutrition, and a background in science and mechanical engineering, David Wolfe is considered one of the world’s top authorities on natural health, beauty nutrition, herbalism, chocolate, and organic superfoods. Leading the field with his vision, mission, education, and business, David has over 15 years of dedicated experience and understanding of the inner workings, the delicate chemistry, and hardcore mechanics of the human body and how the body is affected by the modern-day stressors of today’s fast-paced, over-worked, and unbalanced lifestyle, which is literally a “killer” to our beauty, health, and longevity.
Through his down-to-earth and simple approach, David shows us that no problem is created without a solution and that we DO have the opportunity, right at our fingertips, to make new choices about our lifestyle and take our health back into the power of our own hands.”
Visit David Wolfe’s Website Here
David Wolfe is the man who inspired the owners of The Present Moment Cafe Yvette and Nathan to try raw foods.
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THE PRESENT MOMENT CAFE BELIEVES THAT WE MUST BE THE CHANGE WE WISH TO SEE IN THIS WORLD! AND WE THANK EVERYONE WHO CAME TO SUPPORT THIS IMPORTANT EVENT, BLESSINGS AND GRATITUDE TO ALL!!!!
THE EVENING BEGAN WITH A YOGA CLASS BY CRYSTAL STAFFORD,
FOLLOWED BY AFRICAN DANCE, LIVE MUSIC, AND A RAFFLE.
VISIT CRYSTAL STAFFORD’S WEBSITE : WWW.CRYSTALSTAFFORD.COM
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The Raw Gourmet
Sunday January 18 2009
3:00-5:30 PM
The Three Secret Fail- Safe Steps to Success
on Starting and Continuing your Raw Food Lifestyle
About Nomi Shannon, the author of The Raw Gourmet
Recent winner of BEST OF RAW AWARDS: #1 for Best Raw Vegan Educator 2008, #2 for Best Raw Vegan Chef 2008 and #4 for Best Raw Vegan Book 2008, for Raw Food Celebrations (©2008).
Nomi is a well-known proponent of natural health and healing. An author, a chef, and a Certified Hippocrates Health Educator, Nomi’s first book The Raw Gourmet (©1999) is considered to be the premier raw food recipe and resource book in the world. Her second book, Raw Food Celebrations is becoming the most popular Party Menus book for every occasion.
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Suffering: A Path of Awakening
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Shellee Rae’s Book Signing @ The Present Moment Cafe
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Saturday ~ February 20, 2010 ~ 3pm – 5pm
Click Here to view Enlarged Flyer & MAP
“Shellee’s vegan/rawfood lifestyle has augmented her healing and spiritual journey. She has her own rawfood line on her website and teaches people how to transition from the S.A.D (standard American diet) to a healthier lifestyle.”
You can visit Author, Shellee Rae’s “AbSOULute Health” Website @ WWW.ShelleeRae.Com
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Testimonial: Vegan for Two
“After being so skeptical of the whole raw foods thing, the kicker is that when we left we both felt so great. Unlike when you usually eat and feel kind of weighed down and sleepy and sometimes bloated. Not with this food, it must be true that raw foods really make you feel good, because I felt like I could do anything after we ate, I wasn’t dragging and ready to sit down like usual, I wanted to walk and enjoy the evening.
I highly highly recommend The Present Moment Café, check out their menu online, and if you live nearby or somewhat close, it’s worth the drive. I look forward to our next trip there!!!”
Click for the entire article & testimonial.
NO MORE Detour for Construction!
Thank You for your patience during the road construction on West King Street. As of Wednesday February 17, 2010 the direction of traffic is now flowing BOTH WAYS!!!
The Detour is now finished and we are Thrilled! It has been a long time coming and we truly appreciate everyone’s patience and understanding throughout this entire process!
A West King UNblocked Party is in the Very Near Future! Stay Tuned for Details!!
Our patrons are THE BEST!!!
Sincerely and With Kindest Regards,
The RAWkstars of The Present Moment Cafe
