IDAHO FALLS — A classy restaurant situated in downtown Idaho Falls gives a novel number of choices together with sandwiches, empanadas, pizzas, and plant-based and gluten-free dishes that can go away your mouth watering.
Raymond Gouchenour is the proprietor of Altavita Restaurant situated off 313 Park Avenue in Idaho Falls. There may be additionally a location in Pocatello known as “The More healthy Place to Eat” which has the identical menu, run by his spouse Milagros Gouchenour.
At Altavita Restaurant, there are vegan, gluten-free, lactose-free, and sugar-free choices on the restaurant. It permits folks with completely different dietary needs or wants to get pleasure from a meal outdoors their residence.
“Half of our menu is vegan or vegetarian, no matter you need — plant-based. You will get 100% plant-based. You will get your falafel 100% plant-based when you go for the cashew Tzatziki sauce. You can too get it 100% plant-based vegan and gluten-free. Now we have a gluten-free wrap that’s dairy-free, egg-free, so you’ve gotten tons of choices,” Gouchenour mentioned.
One of the crucial fashionable gadgets is falafel.
“That’s one thing that we make from scratch. We use natural garbanzo beans and some different spices and it comes on the flatbread with lettuce, onion, tomatoes, pickles and cucumbers. In fact, we are able to accommodate no matter you don’t need or do need in your wrap. It’s a by-product of the Greek tradition and on the facet, we have now some veggies and hummus. All people loves the hummus,” he mentioned.
Gouchenour defined that there are two Tzatziki sauces that he makes and might be put into the wraps.
“We make a dairy-free Tzatziki sauce for these that may’t do the dairy or don’t wish to do the dairy or simply wish to strive one thing new. We even have the normal yogurt Tzatziki sauce and it’s sometimes made with lemon and cucumber and no matter creamy ingredient you wish to put in there, as an example, cashews or yogurt,” he mentioned.
One other fashionable merchandise on the menu is the meat shawarma.
“Beef shawarma is fairly much like a greek gyro however after all, this can be a center japanese kind of dish and we use some genuine center japanese spices on our beef. It additionally is available in hen and we additionally use our do-it-yourself cucumber Tzatziki sauce on that as properly after which on the facet right here, we have now some fresh-cut fries,” he mentioned.
There’s a tropical mix smoothie and berry smoothie that’s scrumptious. Anybody can add natural child spinach to it so as to add extra vitamin.
“You may go for common sugar or you are able to do another sweetener if you want as properly (within the smoothie) to maintain it even slightly bit more healthy if you’re watching your sugar or have to,” he mentioned.
Gouchenour mentioned what additionally makes the menu distinctive is that his spouse is initially from Nicaragua. On the menu, there’s a part specifically made for that underneath Latin fusion with a dish known as a “Style of Nicaragua.”
Altavita Restaurant in Idaho Falls is open Monday by Thursday from 11:30 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. and Friday and Saturday from 11:30 a.m. to eight p.m. Click here to study extra concerning the restaurant.
