The place has a hip look, too, with a striped laminated wood bar, bright yellow walls and, in front, a small patio set off with Calder-esque red and yellow metal cutouts. At the front is a copper board listing all the produce available that day, marked certified, organic, transitional or conventional. Here, you really know what you're eating. And it is all real food. This Santa Monica shrine for all things vegan proved itself so popular that it has spawned an off-shoot near the Beverly center.
Regulars stop in for serious vegetarian fare served in a refreshingly unpretentious atmosphere.
514 Santa Monica blvd. What makes Real Food Daily unique is that its food is largely excellent, as good tasting as it is good for you. There is also one main-dish special that changes daily. I have been wowed by tamales with an incendiary mole, a vegetable curry over basmati rice, a couscous that would turn heads in Marrakech, and a divine spinach phyllo pie that was more than Greek to me. The vegetarian craze has really caught on broadly only in the last two or three years and is hitting a crescendo right now.