Vegan
American
International
Organic
Juice bar
Delivery
Take-out
Catering
All Raw
One of several New York City raw food restaurants. Menu is all raw, organic whenever possible, similar to the diet of the bonobo (a kind of chimp). Overlooks Madison Square Park. Reported closed to HappyCow.
8 Reviews
First Review by Poundie
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Points +17478
Bonobo's Vegetarian Restaurant - Edit
Right off of Madison Square Park you'll find the wonderful raw vegan restaurant, Bonobo's - what a great location. The employees are very friendly and helpful in describing the foods available and in picking out what's right for you. The set up was more of a deli style, and you simply select what you'd like right at the counter. I tried a few things here - the spinach avocado soup was not for me, but the basil tomato soup and the pineapple dessert (with coconut meat) was great. If the weather is nice during your visit, I suggest getting your food to go and head over the the park.
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Loulou
Points +137
Simple tasty raw food, friendly staff - Edit
This was our first stop on our Raw Food tour of New York. It's more of a canteen than a restaurant, simple food like salads, nut burgers and veggie salads such as broccoli or cauliflower in a tahini dressing. Lots of choices and options and decent size portions. Think they also sell Thai coconuts but they were out of stock when we where there.
Read morePros: Easy to find, lots of salads, friendly staff
Guest
saynotobarbie
Points +33
Blech - Edit
I found the restaurant in The Vegan Guide to NYC 2009 and took a walk there. I had the mango fruit "ice cream" (I forgot what it's called). It's just frozen shaved mango. Anyway, it was ok, but it tasted like freezer. Yuck. It would have helped if they a) covered it, or b) not sell old and exposed products. I got some crackers. Gross. I couldn't down them so I fed them to the birds. I also had a coconut chai cold drink. It was ok. Nothing special. I should have tried the plain coconut water. I was interested to see if it was any good. I find that it's hard to find good coconut water unless it's right from the coconut. I wish they had more of a selection.
Read morePros: Salad
Cons: Not appetizing
Guest
leafekat
Points +197
Great Prices, Awesome Selection, FAST!! - Edit
Bonobos is one of our favorites. We like it because it is a short walk from the subway and they have a great selection of prepared salads (not the green leafy kind). The prices are incredible for prepared raw food in Manhattan.
Read moreThey have a great selection of drinks.
They even have durian. I was always afraid to buy one because I didn't want to waste it if I didn't like it.
I tried it for the first time at Bonobos. It is like pineapple with onions. I really liked it.
Oh they also have a decent bathroom, which is a plus in Manhattan.
Pros: Cheap, RAW, FAST
Guest
nycvegan
Points +45
Health Code Violations-Beware - Edit
In NYC it takes 28 points to force a restaurant to close for health code violations. In my reading of inspection reports, points are commonly handed out for things a raw food restaurant shouldn't have issue with (e.g., not cooking foods properly).
Read moreBonobo's scored 38 points and got shut down for a bit.
http://167.153.150.32/RI/web/detail.do?method=detail&restaurantId=40982761&inspectionDate=20081222
5.) Evidence of mice or live mice present in facility's food and/or non-food areas.
Pros: raw, vegan
Cons: mice, violations
Guest
JenniferF
Points +60
My favorite, least pretentious raw food resto - Edit
The thing I like most about bonobo's are the fresh/raw veggie entrees. Definitely one of the best tasting raw places in the city, and I like the simplicity of going without table service. I think a lot of vegetarian restaurants forget that the basis of the diet should be VEGETABLES, and instead try to make everything a non meat version of a traditional meat dish , rather than making the most out of the flavors of vegetables.
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alyssa
Points +111
Loved Monkeying Around in the Big Apple - Edit
My boyfriend and I were on an East Coast vacation last week that started out in NYC. Of course I printed out Happy Cow's Restaurant Guide as soon as we booked out hotel and wouldn't you know it, Bonobo's was 2 blocks away from where we were staying! I had high hopes for this place and I was not disappointed and neither was my boyfriend (a big carnivore). We got the sampler platter, the tomato soup, and a strawberry/banana/mango smoothie. Everything was very flavorful, espcially the asian salad scoop on the sampler platter. And the tomato soup was better than any hot tomato soup I have ever eated. We washed everything down with their perfectly sweet/tart agave lemonade and topped off our meal with one of their lucious Mesquite truffles. The staff was very friendly and and helpful and I loved that they encourage sampling. I hope they open a resturant in Los Angeles!
Read morePros: healthy, delicious, samples
Guest
Poundie
Points +13192
All raw - Edit
Counter service raw food. The food here is OK, though I must say my stomach sometimes is a bit queasy after (as is often the case with raw food places).
Read morePros: raw food, cheap
Cons: raw food, cheap
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