Karyn’s Fresh Corner

Karyn Calabrese’s menu is 100% organic, 100% vegan and 100% raw (that is, uncooked), so you probably have to be a vegan raw-foodist to truly appreciate what she’s doing. But some dishes taste good no matter what your eating habits are. A starter of stuffed mushrooms are superbly fresh and garlicky, and the “seaweed dim sum,” a dumplingesque appetizer, is filled with a creamy mixture of avocado and kalamata olives. Unfortunately, the “pasta primavera,” which creatively uses thin slices of zucchini in place of pasta, is watery and flavorless enough to send us even deeper into carnivorism.