Rawlicious

My husband and I are long term health conscious people who eat organic food made both cooked and raw.
I am a skilled cook with a lifetime of experience and knowledge of all forms of food preparation who comes from a family of cooks and chefs.
We know food.
We ordered the pad thai, with the main ingredients being kelp noodles & zucchini noodles. In the whole dish we saw maybe 5 strands of kelp noodles and a few strands of zucchini. The rest was a cooked flour made noodle (what is this doing in there???), in a soupy pink sauce. It was bland and tasteless, with a mild spicy flavour.
While I was eating this dish I immediately experienced lower stomach pains, chills, burning sensation in both my mouth and throat! I felt like I had to rush to the bathroom. Later at home we both experienced flu like symptoms, fever and exhaustion. These symptoms continued into the following day. I’d like to mention we are generally healthy people who are rarely ill. This is an unusual experience for us. We spent our day detoxing after going to Rawlicious.
Eating raw is usually an invigorating experience. Rawlicious is not a place we would recommend.

I went into Rawlicious today for the first time. The soup was good but should have been called gazpacho. It was stone cold. The service was pretty slow but with good company it didn’t bother me much. I ordered the pad Thai, which I have had at my other raw food restaurants. (it’s actually my go to) I never send back food ever! I wish I took a picture of how sad it was. 3 cashews on top and maybe I saw 2 pieces of red pepper. Regardless of how it looked it tasted like nothing. Like honestly NOTHING. No seasoning? No sauce? No veggies? Not impressed with my first visit. Feel Good Guru blows this place out of the water. Their pad Thai is incredible!

Went for the wife’s birthday, we were both extremely satisfied with the food, ambiance, and service!
We will definately be back in the near future.
We had the nachos as an app, I had the taco wrap, and my wife had the bolognese, we both had a dessert. No complaints about anything!

I went there with my friend. I got the Lean Green juice with extra lemon while she had the cannelloni. I quite liked the juice, it was tart enough for me. For dessert, I got a hemp seed bar, since I was looking for something low-​sugar — I loved it! It was nutty and mildly sweet, just perfect. I will definitely swing by for another hemp bar with my friend soon!

Pad thai was delicious! Three stars because it was my first time eating there and… so far so good!

I couldn’t tell that it was a vegan restaurant! Really amazing! I loved the Green Apple juice. The quesadilla was my choice for lunch and it was delicious! Great atmosphere and nice waiters.

I loved their vegan Cesar salad I think it is by far my favourite thing I’ve eaten here. I also recommend any of their drinks they’re fresh and made to order and quite filling. I wish they had some better dessert options but perhaps it was just that there wasn’t much left when I arrived. I think I will be back many many times for that Cesar though! Man was that good! Also a little on the pricey side :(healthy stuff usually is.

So glad to have stumbled upon this organic, vegan, and raw restaurant during my day trip to High Park. Rawlicious is a cute and sophisticated restaurant that is strategically located. Makes a great place for lunch for individuals or with a close friend.
I ordered the «chocolate milk» (made of almond milk, cacao, agave, and vanilla), a taco wrap, and a superfood cookie. The meal was satisfying, filling, and delicious! Everything was extremely fresh. The waitress was super attentive and cool, which was a bonus!
I definitely recommend eating at this place if you’re looking for a healthy and unique meal in one of Toronto’s best neighbourhoods. Keep it up, Rawlicious! Love love love.

Nice restaurant those who are looking for something health and fresh! I’d ordered a classical burger with a lemonade and it was delicious!

It’s a hot Friday evening and I feel like raw food so I find myself trying Rawlicious in Bloor West.
Ordered the vitamin see and pad Thai. The juice was a delicious and fresh mix of carrot and ginger. Pad Thai was a generous mound of zucchini noodles but not very much kelp. It was okay but I prefer the version at Raw Aura in Mississauga.
The chocolate banana cheesecake looked gooood… Next time …

I came here as part of my «I feel like being vegetarian for a few days» kick that I get every month or so. Everything is supposedly raw here, so I think that’s great.
Good: Pad Thai was tasty and it was a fairly big portion and the presentation was very good. Ambiance is very homey, but in a good way. Tables are cute. They have a very limited selection of spices too.
Bad: While the Pad Thai was tasty, I felt like I could have made this at home. It was just kelp noodles, zucchini, some mayo and sauces. It tasted like a salad and $ 15 is too pricey for a salad.
Verdict: I was hoping this raw food experience would open my eyes to new things, but it didn’t feel like much of an experience. It was «meh». I was hoping a) To be blown out of my seat or b) To be totally disgusted. I was neither. Would I visit again? Maybe… not sure.

I’ve been here twice. Once for winterlicious with friends, once with my family as a goodbye lunch (for me!).
Beautiful space — nice décor, great atmosphere, full of light, beautiful bathrooms that are super clean, lovely art
Friendly service — very nice and helpful
THE FOOD. SO SO GOOD. I’m the only gluten-​free vegan in my family. But we all appreciate great food. And we all loved the food here. For raw food newbies — if you get a dish that’s very dense, it’s going to be a smaller portion. However, it will be just as filling, as it will be all nuts/​seeds. If you’re going for quantity — get a «pasta» dish. I had the burger today and it was amazing — and not something I’d ever make at home. We all split the cheesecake and pumpkin pie — yums all around.
The only thing that could be better was the service speed. We were the only ones in the restaurant eating when I went with my family and it took forever to get the food. It seemed that the two servers were also making all the food, instead of a chef in the back. I’m not sure whether this is standard for them — I don’t remember it taking as long during the winterlicious dinner, so maybe not. On the plus side, more time for conversation (just don’t come starving).

The staff was very nice! And you MUST try the green salad and the pad thai! Especially the pad thai.
The hot chocolate was pretty good too. I also like how it’s so close to High Park!

This was only the second time I ever ventured into a totally vegan restaurant. I looked at some of the folks there and realized I must not have been starving due to my larger frame compared to the rail thin people that were in the restaurant at the time. My gf had suggested upon my return to Toronto that we try this place out as a venture towards more natural foods, as opposed to the processed crap we as a society are usually used to.
Anyway I tried the Pad Thai which was somewhat of a venture. It just seemed like a lot of sauce and a mish mash of noodles and veggies. It kind of left me with a bit of heartburn in the end. My gf had tried the tacos which were tastier than my pad thai and was not dripping in sauce. The dessert were a key-​lime tart (me) and chocolate banana cheesecake. When they mean tart, they do mean tart. I wasn’t a big fan. But the cheesecake was deelish and definitely would have that again.
Venturing on the vegan side is a change from the burger joint and definitely I could see myself doing on a more regular basis. But I’ll stay away for a while and try again another time in the future.

I need to continue forming an opinion on this one.
We were there mid afternoon & it was empty. Probably location & time reasons. We wanted to know what it felt like in the evenings because in the light of day the vibe that was attempting to be sleek & minimal but ended up a bit sterile.
The pad thai was pretty good & big, but expensive for what it was. The Caesar collard wrap had a cool flavour and was also a good size.
More things need to be tested, but location, price, and atmosphere might get in the way.

Over the last year or so, I have read a ton of articles, blog posts, and reviews about Rawlicious: a beacon of raw vegan dining in a mostly (and proudly) carnivore Toronto landscape.
I finally managed to get to the Bloorwest Location today, and, as it wasn’t really meal time, had to stick to a juice (beet, apple, carrot, ginger) and some vegan raw power cookies. The juice was great– it was clear the vegetables were fresh (and cold) and that the proportions were deliberate. I often find that ordering a similar juice from Booster Juice or Java Juice will yield a disproportionate (cost-​based) recipe, rather than one created for health, taste, and «texture».
The cookies were also great: not too sweet, and definitely chalk full of good-​for you deliciousness.
The interior was designed and furnished beautifully. You would never «guess» it’s a raw vegan restaurant (being that the assumption is that nice fancy well designed and modern restaurants appeal to the masses and therefore serve meat or fish of some sort)
I am excited to go back for a real meal ASAP.

I work out at the gym a few doors down from this Rawlicious location. I am currently training for a fitness competition and have been eating clean and healthily to support my goals.
After my workout, I was famished, and I decided to try «Rawlicious» to pick up something healthy for dinner.
I was hoping to get something with a lot of protein. After scanning the menu, I didn’t really see anything that tickled my fancy (within my training diet guidelines) so I opted for the Olive-​Currant-​Nut & Seed Salad (Kalamata Olives, Currants, Pine Nuts, Pumpkin Seeds and Hemp Seeds on a bed of Mixed Greens) with Ginger-​Date dressing (Ginger, Dates, Lemon, Garlic, Olive Oil, Coconut Aminos & Seasonings) on the side. I figured the nuts would give me the protein that I needed.
To say I was disappointed is an understatement.
I could have thrown this salad together at home. Now, you might be thinking – why did you order it? You read the ingredients. Yes, I did. However, I thought the quantity of nuts would be enough to qualify as satisfactory servings of protein. I was expecting to see a meal similar to what I would get from Fresh restaurants.
There was maybe – if I’m lucky – two tablespoons of each topping on the salad. I basically paid $ 10 for 2 – 3 cups of mixed greens, which sells for about $ 5 (for the big container) at the grocery store.
It’s safe to say that I will never be purchasing a salad from Rawlicious ever again. I may pop in to try one of the smoothies or a «blonde macaroon» (those looked good), but that’s about it.
If it’s good, I’ll revise this review.

I’m not vegan, vegetarian or a raw foodie bit I do try to have 2 – 3 days a week where I don’t eat meat.
I enjoyed dinner at Rawlicious last night. The service was efficient and friendly and the food tasty. I loved that as a Celiac i could order anything on the menu (restaurant eating can sometimes be a nightmare) We shared the beet dill ravioli, pizza of the day and the raw-​wich. The ravioli was rich and flavorful as was the pizza. The onion bread on the raw-​wich was a bit overpowering for my taste especially after the red onion on the pizza. I love the décor here. Most vegan/​raw Resto’s are either cafeteria style or just feel like a cheap diner with expensive prices. At Raw-​licious I felt like I was out on a nice dinner date. I will definitely be returning!

We had these groupons, and off a group of us went. Pretty generous, given that they were letting us use 1 coupon per every 2 ppl and some coupons out there say 1 per group of 5 or what not.
I wish the location was closer, since I’d like to come here more often.
I ordered the tropical pizza special, with mango and pineapple, on a bed of pesto and «cheeze”/nut-based spread. Side salad. Ordered ginger date dressing but server couldn’t tell the dressings apart.
Others at the table ordered the pad Thai (which looked amazing and was wolfed down before not too long), more pizzas, rawitch (a raw sandwich), and smoothies. We left FULL. We also ordered (between the group) raw nachos (they were actually pretty filling), and semi-​raw rice noodle rolls and raw sushi.
If I could go back, I’d go for the pad Thai. Prob. I’d do w/​out the nacho appetizer b/​c after eating half of that, I was starting to feel full!
The smoothies that everyone ordered, all looked so tasty. I didn’t want to be even more filled up (sometimes it doesn’t take that much)… so avoided one.
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ambiance: very comfortable. Although if you’re over 5’7» you might mind having to crouch down for the duration of the meal — we were in a back table, and sat on pillows rather than chairs.
We went to a nearby place for some tasty ice cream, partly b/​c we all pretty much felt full after the meal. Only one friend, did not feel full.
She doesn’t eat garlic or onion, and we all learned that garlic and onion is in EVERY salad dressing, every pizza and sandwich crust, and nachos, there is. She could only order an appetizer and smoothie.

Rawlicious is one of those places that shows you how awesome being creative with food can be — and how tasty! I was in for lunch, so didn’t want something too overwhelming like one of their pasta dishes. I ended up choosing the Ceasar wrap.
With the collard green wrap for freshness, and the fantastic creamy dressing coating everything inside, it was a definite flavour and texture winner. The seasoned nut loaf bites were bursting with flavour and were a nice combination with the greenness/​creaminess of the rest of the wrap. Lovely! I then opted to try the raw pumpkin pie (it was Thanksgiving weekend, why not?) — a small slice, but it packed quite a flavour punch. Heavily based on coconut and cashew, but still with the rich blend of spices you’d expect from a pumpkin pie.
Service here was friendly and helpful, and they’re very welcoming to people who’ve not been before, helping them with menu info and decisions. The décor gives off a real vibe of homey warmth, almost like you’ve gone to a friend’s for a meal. The location (bit of a hike from downtown for me) and price (my two items came to just shy of $ 20) knock this down to 4 stars, but otherwise colour me impressed!