Thursday 21 August 2008

Raw food cafe or restaurant Bristol?

Long before getting into raw food I always had some dream opening a cafe bar. It wouldn't just serve wholesome real food but would offer a space for music, art, poetry - something along the lines of the literary cafe, or the stateside bohemian joint.

Since I first held that vague, fleeting ambition - I was probably still in my teens - the big coffee chains have opened everywhere. In less cloney towns, there's been an explosion of indies too, displacing the old British greasy spoon experience. However, some of the indies seem worryingly modelled on Starbucks, a me-too entry to the market.

There's no shortage of struggling samey cafes up for sale and many would be ripe for conversion into something more specialist. A bona fide raw foods, powerfoods, superfoods outfit would be more of a destination shop for raw foodists and health-seekers and, if the food was interesting enough in and of itself, curious experience-seekers as well. With the music, the art, the talks it would be well known.

Bristol has a relative wealth of organic stuff, wholefoods stuff, veggie and vegan stuff, not to mention a big green and alternative seen. Among that, a raw food cafe could be a great addition to the mix. Given the right team of shared-vision people, it could happen. If it seemed like a goer, I'd be up for it.

1 comment:

Christine said...

So would I! I enjoy un-cooking!!