The Source Café, located in Manhattan Beach and Hermosa Beach, checks off everything on your wish list of that elusive great-find restaurant! Delicious food, innovative recipes, healthy ingredients, great service and cool ambiance. A fusion of Mediterranean and California cuisine, it’s not a surprise that they were named one of 2020’s “Best New Restaurants in South Bay.” The Source Café was created with the goal in mind to “nourish your mind, body and soul.” Chef Amber Claude, the innovative woman behind the food, has accomplished that and more.
This creative and health-conscious eatery, The Source Café is about both food and experience. Chef Amber has taken her classical Italian chef training and fused it with her passion to create nourishing food to heal the mind and body.
All of this was an evolution of Chef Amber’s own journey. As someone who, herself, knows firsthand the struggles of not being able to eat everything you want due to health restrictions and allergies, Amber wanted to provide people the rejuvenating and restorative powers of fresh, whole, nutritious food has made her unique artisanal foods restaurants must-stop spaces in her two restaurants in the South Bay. Along with her flavorful dishes, she is passionate about sharing her diverse knowledge on the various ways to nourish your mind, body, and soul, with her community.
Sourced in Southern California, The Source offers high-quality gluten-free, dairy-free, organic, non-GMO food. Whether it’s breakfast, lunch or dinner, the ingredients in all the dishes are designed for maximum health benefits. You couldn’t ask for better than that! There are many choices of restaurants with tasty, great menu items, but very few can boast these great qualities. Although your favorite restaurant food may taste good, you really can’t be sure if you’re eating GMO food with unhealthy oils and additives. You don’t have to worry about any of that at The Source Café. You can be confident you are eating and sharing food with your family that is actually good for them!
Along with their elevated menu and dine-in experience, they have curated a selection of organic biodynamic wine, locally brewed beer and hard kombucha, as well as developed a unique collection of cocktails and adaptogen-infused mocktails
Chef Amber prides herself on serving food and beverages that leave her guests feeling healthy, not guilty, and is focused on nutrient-dense delicious food that is easy on our digestive system. Some of the amazingly creative dishes and beverages include:
Breakfast Sandwich: Fried egg, spicy aioli, arugula, avocado, greens, gluten-free whole grain bread
Stonefruit Salad: Heirloom tomatoes, stonefruit, almond ricotta, sherry, herbs.
Salmon Bowl: Seared wild salmon, black rice, cucumber, arugula, pickled beets, chickpea cilantro, miso
Snack Plate: Includes herbed cashew goat cheese, sprouted nuts, pickled cauliflower, stuffed peppadews, and their amazing homemade oat seed crackers which they make fresh daily.
Fresh Pappardelle, made from fresh pasta and topped with snap peas, heirloom baby tomato, almond ricotta, shallots, and brazil nut parmesan.
Pizza that has a broccoli crust with almond ricotta, pumpkin seed pesto, tomato confit, arugula, broccoli.
Orange Cake: Vanilla white yam frosting, carob monk fruit bark (paleo).
Blue Cashew Latte: Cashew milk, blue Majik, coconut oil, maca, tocos, mesquite, lucuma, maple, cinnamon.
Matcha Brain Fuel: Cashew milk, matcha, XCT oil, lions mane, tocos, maca, lucuma, dates, rosemary oil.
They also offer delivery through Uber Eats and Doordash, so there’s no excuse not to eat healthy and delicious food!
In addition to The Source Café’s Hermosa Beach and Manhattan Beach locations, Chef Amber offers cooking classes and is an accredited author of multiple books.
Her summer 2021 book release, “HUNGRY – Why I f*ucking eat, how I became honest with food, my body and myself” shares her authentic journey of how she became honest with food, her body, and herself, and her forthcoming cookbook Sexy Nourishing Food comprises a combination of The Source Café’s classic favorite dishes along with her staple go-to dishes she enjoys making at home. Since 2012 The Source Café has been a unique and fantastic place for locals and tourists alike to indulge in delicious and healthy food.
The Source Café Manhattan Beach
The Source Cafe Hermosa Beach
