Beverly Hills Juice club
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The "Space odyssey" of juice clubs. Go to this place to worship your organs. I recommend the " Banana Almond Manna shake w/the big ten" . I always get this after a week of bad eating. Not bad as a meal to be honest, fills you up pretty good and makes you feel pretty happy :) David Otto is the juice doctor! Beverly Hills Juice Farm Fresh Organic Elixirs by Rachel Dowd David Otto ate nothing but watermelon for 77 days one summer. Somehow that suits the 68-year-old owner of Beverly Hills Juice, a quirky and inspired juice club, located around the corner from the Beverly Center. “I just got into it,” Otto explains offhandedly. “Health is often related to what you don’t eat.” Otto channels that die-hard discipline and minimalist philosophy into every bottle of juice he makes, starting with a wake-up call that would make military personnel shudder. Every morning, he rises between 2:00 and 2:30am and heads downtown to the Wholesale Produce Market and Better Life Organic Produce, to hand select fruit for the club’s 38 varieties of juice. “You can’t make good juice out of bad produce,” he says. “So, I always buy the best stuff. If I can’t find high quality fruit, I won’t make that juice.” For instance, Otto will use only organic tomatoes in his hot tomato tonic ($3.50), a fiery elixir he swears can wipe out any cold. So if tomatoes aren’t in season, he just doesn’t offer it. After pre-dawn shopping, Otto spends the next six hours in a refrigerated room in the back of Beverly Hills Juice cold-pressing fruit under 200 pounds of hydrolytic pressure. It’s a colossal undertaking that keeps the juicemaker up to his elbows in pulp until noon. “It’s a mess to make. You cube the fruit, wrap it in cloth, press, collect the seeds and pulp, strain through a sieve and taste. We make all our juices with extreme care, and they’re met with extreme appreciation.” After one sip, you understand why. The flavors are perplexingly delicate and concentrated like a memory triggered by scent—clear, and at the same time ethereal. I’m convinced there’s a part of my stomach that was previously untouched before I drank the sprightly Apple Lemon Double Ginger ($3.50), and the powerhouse Big Ten ($3.50), which includes carrots, beets, celery, parsley, spinach, sunflower greens. Watermelon ($3.50) could just as well be called “Drinkable Summer.” But the club’s entire lineup offers no shortage of potential favorites: Apple Papaya Coconut ($3.50), classic carrot ($3) and the oh-so-subtle coconut water ($3) are amazing. Don’t overlook the Banana Manna shakes, made solely from bananas and ground sunflowers ($2.50) or almonds ($3) and blended with your choice of juice. They’re as creamy as a banana milkshake and provide the perfect base for a superfood add-in, such as E3 Live, a frozen organic blue-green algae harvested wild in Oregon; Dr. Green’s, made from alfalfa, barley grass, blue-green algae, herbs, probiotics, enzymes and antioxidants; or the nutrient-dense standby, wheatgrass. Naturally, all are available straight up in a shot for the more hardcore. Beverly Hills Juice has no shortage of those. Otto considers his clientele hip, creative and health conscious. They’re repeat customers and his best salespeople. You may be tempted to add “master sleuth” to the list when you first try to find the juice club (think white-tiled, walk-in closet obscured by two trees). But once discovered, Beverly Hills Juice is difficult to forget. 8382 Beverly Blvd., LA, 323.655.8300. M-F 7 am-6 pm Sat 10 am-6 pm. Rachel Dowd is a freelance writer who lives and eats watermelon in Topanga. - Amy , posted 02/01/08 |
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