Every day is Earth Day at Green Wave Café in Plantation, where all the food is vegan and organic and the only cooked item on the menu is the daily soup. Open two years, Green Wave has developed a devoted following of health-minded foodies who come for deliciously fresh dishes like mushroom burgers with almond “cheese'' on dehydrated onion and sunflower-sesame seed bread.
Owner Raoul Valle and his chef-wife, Lisa, met in the mid-'80s at Biscayne Medical Center, where he was a paramedic and she was an EKG technician. She's from an Italian-Jewish family in North Miami Beach and he's from Nicaragua by way of Los Angeles and New York.
They got into raw foods after Raoul learned six years ago that he had prostate cancer. He attributes his recovery to the diet and lifestyle changes he made at the holistic Hippocrates Health Institute in West Palm Beach. Lisa has always loved to cook, and at Raoul's urging she studied raw-food cuisine at the Living Light School in California. They opened Green Wave as a school, but it quickly turned into a café.
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