LivingWell Bistro - Portland's Newest Healthy Dining Experience

Featuring fresh, local and organic cuisine

PORTLAND, Ore., Nov. 4, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The LivingWell Bistro has emerged as Portland's freshest plant based restaurant.  The dining establishment is meeting the needs of a city interested in healthy living by offering a tantalizing menu.  The Bistro features local, organic and sustainable foods bursting with flavor, plated and served with love. Customers will find a fresh twist on a delicious and hearty plant based menu, filled with the best produce of the season, including many gluten free options and farm-to-table selections.

"The casual dining atmosphere, vibrant healthy food choices and a wide selection of menu options provides a place where people can eat well and be well," says Bo Rinaldi, restaurateur, and collaborator on the LivingWell Bistro project. The restaurant is conveniently located in Adventist Health's new Pavilion in East Portland and provides a wide array of fresh, sweet and savory dishes for breakfast, lunch and dinner.  "We are offering an exciting new dining option where the food is freshly made utilizing authentic flavors and style," states Rinaldi, the co-founder of Vegan Fusion cuisine. 

Daily chef specials are served in a vibrant dining atmosphere utilizing seasonal produce.  The Bistro features a stunning Woodstone oven where pizzas are hand crafted to order. In addition to the comfortable and intimate dining area, the Bistro also offers a wide selection of grab-and-go dishes such as daily fresh-made soups, Garden Wraps and Rainbow Salads. 

The Bistro also partners with local vendors such as Dave's Killer Bread, Petunia's, Dovetail Bakery and Blossoming Lotus. The restaurant includes a beautifully appointed Marketplace section with an inventory of vegan cook books, housewares, raw food items and heart healthy cooking ingredients. 

You'll find the LivingWell Bistro at 10000 SE Main Street (just inside the lobby of Adventist Medical Center's Pavilion) and is open Sunday through Friday. To learn more about the LivingWell Bistro's menu items, log on to www.livingwellbistro.com or visit us on Facebook.

About Adventist Medical Center (AMC)
Adventist Medical Center (AMC), located in southeast Portland, is a nonprofit, 302-bed acute care facility, offering a full range of inpatient, outpatient and emergency services throughout the Portland/Vancouver metropolitan area. 

Adventist Medical Center is part of Adventist Health, a faith-based, not-for-profit integrated health care delivery system with nearly 20,000 employees serving communities in California, Hawaii, Oregon and Washington. Founded on Seventh-day Adventist health values, Adventist Health provides compassionate care in 17 hospitals, more than 130 physician and rural health clinics, 14 home care agencies and four joint-venture retirement centers. We invite you to visit http://www.adventisthealthnw.com for more information.

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SOURCE Adventist Medical Center