I've had a manic couple of weeks at work and woke up yesterday morning feeling completely shattered. We decided to take it easy and went to the Fresh Earth Food Store in Emmarentia to eat some good food, drink some nutrient-jam-packed smoothies and stock up on some of the amazing produce that they have at the store. Hallelujah (such-a-damn-difficult-work-to-spell) for pay-day!
The cafe at Fresh Earth isn't entirely vegan and caters predominantly for vegetarians but I've taken various willing and able meat eaters there as well. The focus is on conscious, healthy, ethical and sustainable eating and living. What's great about the place is how holistic it is- it's a restaurant (with the most incredible food), a store (with the most incredible stock), it serves as a venue for topical talks on health and hosts awesome multi-themed cooking classes.
All the food is clearly labelled (both in the store and at the Deli), the staff is well conversant with veganism (hopefully this will become the norm at most restaurants as time goes by) and it feels great supporting an establishment that has such a good vibe to it!
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| Vegan Cheese Burger |
What is also great is that the store is slowly expanding and has recently launched its online shop, so those of us who aren't very close to the place can still stock-up on certain goods.
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| The dogs probably won't sniff twice at the vegan pet food but we thought we'd give it a try. |
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| It was the first time I tried Seitan. Oh man it was so good and such a mind trip. I checked about ten times just to make sure that it didn't have meat in. |
The restaurant is really decently priced and the stock in the store ranges from affordable to crazy-expensive (given the fact that so much of the stuff is imported). If you haven't been there before, I'd definitely recommend visiting the place as you're sure to find something to meet your fancy...and feel good about the fact that there are no cruel and abusive practices underlying the running of the establishment.
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Fresh Earth is really something awesome. We go there for hangover food :) and the Mighty Burger... Its awesome. Did I say that I think its awesome!? As far as I know there is no meat on the menus, nor in the store, but they have loads of 'meaty' veg stuff. I've never seen that 'jerky' stuff, will definitely try it!
ReplyDeleteI've just whipped out their take away menu and its seems you are, in fact, correct Ms Bliss (so my post has been slightly amended)...I think it was the reference to breakfast sausages that confused me! =) But yes, the place is awesome- we leave with an excitement headache each time we're there. And the jerky is crazy-good!(Nomnomnom)
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