clean plate at the empty room

Posted on 08. Aug, 2009 by admin in Uncategorized

I’ve been feeling kind of out of gas lately. I’m falling into a routine balancing work and play and having that consistency has me living on autopilot. That’s okay once in a while…I can’t run at Mach 5 all the time.

Today is the last day to enter the Princess Lasertron felt flower kit giveaway, so make sure you do that before the time is up today at 5pm eastern. I’ve been having fun reading all of the comments. When was the last time you felt glorious?

It is NOT the last day to vote for me to win Martha Stewart’s DIY wedding crafts contest. The shameless promotion isn’t over either.

Now that housekeeping is over, I want to talk about how much fun I had today.

Tonight was the opening of Clean Plate, a 30-day raw food restaurant that is part of Omaha’s Empty Room project. From the Clean Plate blog:

CLEAN PLATE is an opportunity to share with others my belief that the act of eating is an everyday expression of our most deeply held values. It will serve the kind of food that is close to my heart, not fussy or complicated, but full of deeply good flavor.

CLEAN PLATE is part of the Empty Room experiment. Empty Room is the creation of real estate developer Christian Christiansen of Bluestone Development and the graphic design teams from What Cheer and Secret Penguin. They asked the question, “What would you do with an empty room?” Their six favorite responses to this question are each receiving a month, rent free in a retail space located at the Slowdown/Film Streams complex. CLEAN PLATE takes up residence this August. Hope to see you then!

At the opening event, tons of Omahans showed up to sample some of Elle Lien’s raw food offerings in the beautiful Empty Room space.

“. . . I try not to use the words vegan or raw, because I feel like they’re alienating. I’d rather people just eat the food. It’s not just hippie granola food. It’s normal, real, delicious food.”

-Elle Lien

The huge Parsons-style dining table was handmade by local furniture maker Peter Cales.

For those of you interested in checking out Clean Plate for lunch or a late-night snack, maybe we will see you there! Dave is beyond excited to go there for lunch all month.