Foodie's Restaurant serving big appetites.

I answer the phone to, “On my way to pick you up.” Ok, I’m thinking a polite kidnapper . . . nope; my friend is on the way to pick me up for lunch and not telling me where we are going. La Parrilla . . . I should have guessed we met at La Parrilla and we both love the people and food there; not to mention the $6 Patron shots. They serve tasty Southeastern Mexican cuisine at very affordable prices.
The first order of business, the La Parrilla margarita; followed by guacamole made fresh, queso cheese dip and salsa with chips . . .  the perfect trifecta. Federico and Daniel are behind the bar today and as usual they are welcoming and witty. La Parrilla has delicious lunch specials Monday thru Friday 11am – 3pm and an extensive menu of traditional favorites, vegetarian dishes and seafood plates. 

Today I am having the Speedy Gonzalez, a.k.a. #6, the enchilada & taco plate with beans and rice. My friend is having the #1,  a burrito with beans and rice on the side, which like everything I have ever had at La Parrilla, was quite scrumptious. Between the fresh guacamole, cheese dip, salsa and chips, and most (I can never finish my plate at La Parrilla) of the food on my plate, I have never made it around to the dessert menu . . . and it doesn’t look like today is the day. The atmosphere at La Parrilla is friendly, the service great and the food wonderful. There are 15 locations in the Atlanta, GA area of which I have been to four. Each was slightly different in atmosphere and mood but all had that same great food and friendly service. (NaturalNews) The so-called "Paleo" diet has caught on like wildfire, with millions of people around the world embracing it for both weight-loss and health-promoting purposes. The diet has become so popular, in fact, that a new restaurant in Germany now serves only paleolithic food, which excludes popular modern-day foods like cheese, bread, and sugar. The UK's Daily Mail reports that Sauvage, which recently opened in Berlin, serves only organic, unprocessed food.

 Various fruits and vegetables, meat, fish, eggs, nuts, seeds, and herbs fill the pages of the restaurant's menu. Customers will not find the usual wheat-based breads, dairy products, or refined sugar-laden treats available at most restaurants. Diners at Sauvage do not have to worry about genetically-modified (GM) soybean or canola oil tainting their foods, either. The restaurant uses only ghee, also known as clarified butter; homemade clarified lard, which is actually far healthier than oil and butter substitutes; and unrefined palm and coconut oil to cook its foods. All of Sauvage's fruit, vegetable, herb, nut, and seed offerings are organic, and its gluten-free baked goods are all made with natural fruits rather than processed sugars. And as much as possible, the restaurant sources only free-range, grass-fed, organic meats.

 "The paleolithic Cuisine is based on a groundbreaking vision in nutrition and offers the world's most healthy diet," says Sauvage on its website. "The prehistoric kitchen exclusively works with organic, unprocessed foods. It excludes every kind of processed food such as grains, starches, dairy products and sugar which have no place on the paleolithic menu. The basic ingredients of Paleo cooking are veggies, meat, fish, eggs, oils, nuts, seeds and herbs. All ingredients come from Organic farming or wildlife." Last year, the Chicago Tribune hailed the amazing health-promoting benefits of the Paleo diet. Besides helping to create a strong and vibrant immune system, the diet can even cure serious diseases like arthritis and heart disease. Its claim to fame also includes improving energy levels, clearing up skin, improving hair and bone strength, and promoting mental balance (http://www.naturalnews.com/029653_p...). "Many people think the Paleolithic diet is just some hipster trend, but it's a worldwide phenomenon, with an online community that spans the globe," said Sauvage's Boris Leite-Poco to Spiegel Online.

 "The trend is probably strongest in the United States, where people who have had enough of the fast food way of life and generations of illness have taken it up." Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/034033_paleolithic_diet_restaurant.html#ixzz1gaQPfKXU

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Welcome to Foodies, the Roanoke Valley's unique resource for food lovers. Whether you're interested in our entertaining and informative Cooking Classes, our Grab & Go Meals, or Private Events and Team Building activities in our state of the art demonstration kitchen, we're all about good food and good fun.

We offer a wide variety of cooking classes, with an emphasis on cooking from scratch, using fresh ingredients and time tested culinary techniques.

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