{"id":1898,"date":"2013-06-26T10:56:43","date_gmt":"2013-06-26T14:56:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/?p=1898"},"modified":"2013-06-26T10:57:59","modified_gmt":"2013-06-26T14:57:59","slug":"vegan-in-waterloo-thrive-juice-bar-two-words-kale-mojito","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/vegan-in-waterloo-thrive-juice-bar-two-words-kale-mojito\/","title":{"rendered":"Vegan in Waterloo &#8211; Thrive Juice Bar: two words: Kale Mojito"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During our beautiful regenerating weekend visiting Kitchener-Waterloo we stopped in to Thrive Juice Bar. (It also just happened to be on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/232799976737476\/\">same day Brendan Brazier was visiting<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Thrive by MeShellG, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/prairiev\/8974590172\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"Thrive\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3803\/8974590172_3c984e5d02.jpg\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" \/><!--more--><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thrive Juice Bar is in uptown Waterloo, features a hyper modern decor, and is unabashedly and enthusiastically involved with Vega. The nice thing about this spot, other than its relaxed tables, quickly prepared drinks, and plant-based drink and food options, is that it&#8217;s also surrounded by other nice little shops that you might want to visit too.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Thrive Juice Bar - Coconut Cashew Medjool Date by MeShellG, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/prairiev\/8973398897\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"Thrive Juice Bar - Coconut Cashew Medjool Date\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7303\/8973398897_f3013ee6bd.jpg\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>JC ordered the Coconut Cashew Medjool Date, which came highly recommended. It was thick and sweet blend of coconut gelato, medjool dates, raw cashews, cashew butter, lemongrass, raw agave, rice milk &amp; coconut water. I stole a few sips, but especially liked the drink I ordered&#8230; The Kale Mojito.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Waterloo-Kitchener trip - Thrive Juice Bar - Kale Mojito by MeShellG, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/prairiev\/8917028350\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"Waterloo-Kitchener trip - Thrive Juice Bar - Kale Mojito\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.staticflickr.com\/2805\/8917028350_16d1944d5b.jpg\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But of course I ordered the Kale Mojito (they actually spell it Mohito&#8230; but&#8230; I can&#8217;t.) How could I not? Not only is the mojito one of my favourite drinks in general, and pair that with the general obsession with kale and I just can&#8217;t stifle my curiosity. It had fresh kale, lime zest &amp; juice, fresh mint leaves, lime gelato, organic cane sugar &amp; coconut water.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll admit it, I wasn&#8217;t sure if this was going to be tasty. I&#8217;ve not quite jumped into the green juice zone, but this was delicious, and on the plus side &#8211; didn&#8217;t actually taste that much like kale. The flavour was mostly the fresh flavour of lime and mint, with just a hint of kale, so it won me over all around.<\/p>\n<p>Next time I&#8217;m in Waterloo, I&#8217;ll probably visit Thrive again and try something from their food menu. The options look quite good (and most items on their menu can be made raw.)<\/p>\n<h3>Thrive Juice Bar<\/h3>\n<p>Address: 105-191 King Street S, Waterloo, ON (<a href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/maps\/ph4Yd\" target=\"_blank\">map<\/a>)<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/thrivejuicebar.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Website<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Thrive-Juice-Bar\/109343865765229\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thrivejuicebar\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During our beautiful regenerating weekend visiting Kitchener-Waterloo we stopped in to Thrive Juice Bar. (It also just happened to be on the same day Brendan Brazier was visiting.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,242],"tags":[767,765,766,756],"class_list":["post-1898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travelling","category-vegan","tag-kale-mojito","tag-ontario-2","tag-thrive-juice-bar","tag-waterloo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1898\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}