According to Chinese Medicine there are five seasons per year, unlike the Western view of four. Fall, winter, spring and summer are the same, with an additional late summer season. Each season is associated with one of the five major organs in the body. As we are in late summer now, the coordinating organ is the spleen which includes the stomach. For each of these different season/organ pair, there is also an associated flavor, i.e., pungent (acrid), sweet, sour, bitter and salty. Sweet is the coordinating flavor for late summer.

In Chinese medicine, it is beneficial at this time of year to eat foods that are sweet. This doesn’t exactly mean frosted cakes and pies, but instead fruits, beans and some other selections that wouldn’t obviously be perceived as sweet. Here are a few other: clam, crab, grapefruit, lettuce, persimmon, sugar cane, water chestnut, cucumber, barley, millet, tofu, chicken egg white, marjoram, oyster, peppermint, yogurt, cauliflower, corn, tomatoes, and several warming spices such as cinnamon, turmeric, dried ginger and orange peel.

Take a look at our menus. You’ll find we have many adequate late summer season foods for your delight and fancy. We have outdoor seating and welcome your little well behaved pooches to accompany you outside.