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February 13, 2015

Scene and Heard: Mo Clancy


Photo Credit: Maria Del Rio

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Mo Clancy of Seed + Salt eatery in San Francisco.

Photo Credit: Maria Del Rio

Editors' Notes

Mo Clancy of Seed + Salt eatery in San Francisco.

Photo Credit: Maria Del Rio

Editors' Notes

Seed + Salt eatery in San Francisco.

Photo Credit: Maria Del Rio

Editors' Notes

Seed + Salt eatery in San Francisco.

“This kind of food is very labor intensive; it’s hard to make a cashew cheese,” says Mo Clancy, describing the plant-based menu of Seed + Salt, the San Francisco eatery she opened in the Marina. On the eve of the annual heart-centric holiday when restaurants serve up fixed menus in a space-starved city where ovens double as storage space, Clancy’s vegan take-out spot is a godsend. The idea for the cafe came to Clancy two years ago when the serial entrepreneur, who has launched marketing and beauty companies in addition to the Nomade Exquis jewelry and clothing line, decided to clean up her diet. She wanted to eliminate cane sugars, meat, trans-fats, gluten, and genetically modified foods. But once Clancy stepped out of her kitchen, she found few options for chef-driven clean foods at quick service restaurants. So Clancy struck up a creative partnership with Ariel Nadelberg—who had cooked at Al Di La Trattoria, Applewood, and the Brooklyn Botanical Garden Terrace Cafe—and the menus for new Bay Area cafe began to take shape. “We’re creating 95-percent of what we serve in-house,” says Clancy, noting that she and Nadelberg have developed soy-free tempehs made from black bean, chickpea, and black-eyed peas with a Bay Area maker. Indeed, Seed + Salt foods are made with an assortment of other nut milk cheeses, pickles, preserves, vinaigrettes, and sauces that are all created in-house. The seasonal menu includes such neighborhood staples as kale caesar with cashew nut dressing, a beet burger, an eggplant BLT, and chia horchata pudding. But for a Valentine with a sweet tooth, the chocolate chip cookie made from almond flour, raw chocolate from Fine & Raw in Brooklyn, and palm sugar is just the thing.

By Elizabeth Varnell

 

Pictured: Mo Clancy of Seed + Salt eatery in San Francisco.
Photo By: Maria del Rio

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