Once an inadvertently exclusive organic café for employees residing in Evanston's Enterprise Center, this faux-grandmother's living room space, dressed in white linen and throw pillows, quickly gained cred in the community proper as a secret tea and crumpet hideout. It doesn't hurt to also be bolstered with a full range of French bistro-type large plates.

Shockingly, it keeps its prices truly in the café realm, dishing out breakfast options like poached eggs, topped with feta cheese and kalamata olives with herb foccacia for $8. Lunch broadcasts selections such as pesto-encrusted salmon, served aside gorgonzola polenta for $8.50. Ditto for budget-minded for drinks, with loose-leaf teas and coffee starting at $1.50. We're talking healthy ingredients – organic eggs, farm-raised salmon, organic coffee and a fleet of $7 sandwiches in the same vein.

And when I say crumpet, I mean as defined by fruit and nut eaters. More healthy options abound, like homemade granola, and 0 percent saturated fat, blueberry-banana cornmeal muffins.

Reverence will soon be opening three days a week with a dinner menu, as well.

Centerstage Reviewer: Gavin Paul