Cold Food that Fires You Up.

Garde Manger is a practice dealing with cold prepared dishes, appetizers, and salads for most restaurants and establishments. Despite the fancy name, you are essentially eating this style of food when ever you fix yourself a salad, reach in to a pickle jar, or even grab some cold cuts from the fridge. So how can this cuisine fire you up? The answer really has less to do with the food's temperature and more with it's preparation. Garde Manger style food is almost always cooked in one way of another making it much easier and more efficient to digest.

While we often shy away from quick digesting foods from a diet perspective, they can actually be extremely beneficial for us at times of increased physical activity.

That is, cooked foods:

• Are absorbed more quickly providing the quick, usable energy necessary before and after hard efforts.
• Are more easily digestible and therefore reduce the chances of cramping or stomach discomfort during a workout. 
• Can actually offer more nutrients due to the breakdown of absorption inhibiting fibers. (*in certain food items)
• When served cold (garde manger style) they offer a great, portable source of energy for travling athletes.

Classic French Garde Manger Technique and Presentation come together in this Asian Style Vegetarian platter designed for professional athletes. 

Garde Manger Special:

Fresh Oriental Platter

Smoked Tomato and Cod Pate

Baked cod pate with pieces of spiced, smoked tomato throughout.

Carrot Ginger Pure

This sweet, wholesome pure perfectly complements the cod’s subtle spice.

Pickled Beet and Brown Rice Salad.

Cubes of pickled beets on a seasoned bed of brown rice and sautéed mushrooms topped with an Asian vinaigrette.

California Smoked Tofu Canapé

Smoked tofu and salmon caviar cover a house-made avocado-topped sesame cracker.

*Please inform your server of any allergies as many of our dishes contain wheat, soy, seafood, eggs, and other know allergens.

Check out my full explanation of the ergonomic implications for Garde Manger style food here! 

Ergogenic Implications for Garde Manger