Ever since I started this diet in January I have been experiencing an overwhelming number of synchronistic coincidences. Sort of like "all my prayers to God being answered", one after the other. One of the biggest obstacles and the most prominent questions in my life a few weeks ago after settling into my diet was how I would get my afternoon juice everyday during my busy rehearsal and performance schedule. My house and my juicer are in the Sunset while I work in Hayes Valley (i.e. a twenty minute drive and a forty minute bus ride), which makes for a difficult sprint home with rarely more than an hour break. I asked the question and then forgot about it. Then God spoke.
Just a few days later I was off to lunch with my friend and she insisted on taking a less traveled route to our usual lunch spot, La Boulange. That’s when I first saw it, Mandarina, a juice and smoothie bar. It was just opening up two blocks from the Ballet building.
Question: How do I get my afternoon juice?
Answer: Go to the juice bar down the street.
How awesome?! Never any explanation from my friend as to why she wanted to walk that way to lunch and I would not have been aware of this juice bar without going that direction. So now everyday I go to Mandarina on my way to La Boulange and the owners let me request my own juice, pineapple, cucumber, celery and kale, but sometimes I just get two shots of wheatgrass. It is my new regular spot. Next time you’re in Hayes Valley, check it out, ask for the green juice with kale and cucumber, and tell them Luke sent you.
