Tamater of my dreams + giveaway
Hey everyone! Hope your humpday is treating you well 😀
For dinner last night, I broke out this treasured heirloom tomato.
I got it a Whole Foods on Sunday because it was so beautiful, and decided it was destined for some caprese before our dinner last night.
I sliced it up and topped with sea salt and pepper
Topped mine with raw goat cheddar and the pilot’s with havarti, and fresh organic basil
It was pretty face-rocking amazing 🙂
For dinner, we had a little Italian shrimp stir-fry thingy that I made up on the spot.
I sauteed an onion and garlic, then added a can of organic diced tomatoes, oregano, rosemary, sea salt, pepper, a splash of balsamic and red pepper flakes. Then I added in some organic shrimp, topped with fresh basil and served with roasted asparagus.
Not too shabby 😉
The pilot had a lot of studying stuff to do last night (wah wah) so I chilled and watched American Idol and then called it a night.
This morning, I met the girls for a weights sesh (munched an apple on the way) and we dominated our core. I’m going to be sooooore tomorrow. It feels nice to know you did something 🙂
After weightstravaganza, I couldn’t wait to have another Cherry Chocolate Bomb smoothie (Kristen’s recipe). I made the same changes that I made the other night and it was equally amazing.
I did some work on the computer, then had a slice of millet for snack covered in a blanket of nutritional yeast and chili powder.
After running some errands, I had a quick meeting with the cafe owners to go over the plans for the cafe.
I still can’t believe this is really happening!
The thing is, we need some help. We’ve been thinking of names for a few weeks and haven’t found anything we love. (The pilot has contributed the funniest hippie sounding names he could come up with…goofer). I want to name for the cafe to be something intriguing, but without the words “vegan” or “raw” because I don’t want to scare anyone away by thinking we only serve carrot sticks. So, what would you name a high-raw, gluten-free, vegan cafe??
By leaving a suggestion below, you’re giving us permission to use the name you suggest (or a variation) 😀
The creator of the name we end up using will receive a batch of macaroons and $50 worth of goodies from the health food store (think almond butter, bars, nutritional yeast, or whatever fun things you might be needing).
We’ll pick a “winner” by Friday and I’ll have the goodies out by Saturday.
I know ya’ll are geniuses at this sort of thing and I can’t wait to read your suggestions!!!
I’m off to train a client, then pilates and ZUMBA!
xoxo,
Gina
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Fresco
Almond
Salud
“Cafe Fraiche” (French for Fresh!)
I love Feast-such a cute idea! Maybe in Spanish to reflect your roots? (I don’t know the word though haha)
I know “pure” is “puro” (okay no I don’t, Google helped haha) which sounds cool too.
Also, maybe “Detox Cafe” or something like that-I think people are always intrigued when they hear about detoxes and purifying their body and stuff.
Darn I wish I had something really creative but I think everyone else has got it!!
How about “Verde” or “Cafe Verde”… It means Green in Italian so it sounds pretty while also being appropriate 🙂
It looks as though someone already suggested Fresco. I suggest Almond, Salud or Good Eats as names for Cafe.
My suggestions are Pure Elements or Shine
Healthy Inspirations
xoxo
“The GIVA”
Kinda like Gina and vegan? haha!
El cafe fresco. or El cafe puro. (Fresh cafe / pure cafe)
Roots
I like this one! Strong, healthy, and worth returning to.
Also maybe something to do with a healthy lifestyle?
Lean? LeanMachine?
I know you said you didn’t want to include vegan or raw, but “R.A.W.” can stand for “real and wholesome”
sorry if i repeated anything- there are so many comments!
Satiety- the quality or state of being fed
Crisp
Mint
Vivid
Simply Eat
hahah looks like most of my suggestions are repeats now as lots of ppl posted at the same time as me! great minds 🙂
Sencilla (or Sencilla cafe or Cafe Sencilla)
Sencilla (as you know) is spanish for Simple, and it sounds pretty 🙂
I have two ideas that jumped int omy mind. Definately different from the others:
The Smiling Cashew
and
Curious?
Hope you come up with an amazing name!
smiling cashew!!! how cute is that?!
Glad you like it! I love cashews and they look like little smiles. Plus, lots of people make raw treats with them. You are awesome, though, Gina, I am sure you will pick out the perfect name for your place!
Gina’s Real Food Cafe
raw deal
salt of the earth eatery
sticks and stones
natural nook
Verdura or Ortaggio (Italian for vegetable, cooked or growing, respectively)
Mangia (Italian for EAT!) [Mangia Fresco would be eat fresh, Mangia pulito would be eat clean]
Noce (Italian for nut)
What if you call it 40 degrees since that the raw foodism usually includes primarily unheated food, or food warmed to a temperature less than 40 °C???
Some combo of the words feast and beast- you use them a lot! And beast definitely does not make people think of weak, lame, blah food.
I think you should name it “Bliss Cafe”
You want something short so people can just simply say, ” You want to head to bliss for lunch?”
you know?
ohhhhh! yeahhhhhh 😀
That seems a popular name as there’s already a raw cafe in Texas named Bliss Cafe
http://www.blissrawcafe.com and there’s also one in New York.
Good thinking though!
How about “The Clean Cafe” ,”Pure”, “Pure Delight”, or “Earth Cafe” Hope this helps, good luck!
treetops?
with broccoli as your logo…
Simply Essential/ Simple Essentials?
Good luck girl, this must be quite an exciting, anxious, wonderfully, busy time for you!
So many good suggestions already!
I like the one namers – Fresh and Pure or Puro are great.
What about something that denotes rawness – “Food for Life”
You’re going to find an amazing name and have tons of customers!
How about..
“Zest” (zest for life, orange zest, zesty flavors)
“Sprout” (growth, alive, hope)
“Pure Zest”
“Essence”
“Simplicity” (kind of like the famous Serendipity in NYC)
“True Cafe” (true to the food, true to yourself)
What about Green Halo? I was just looking at your post on shampoos 🙂 you could even have a green halo as part of your sign.
My suggestion:
Mistica
Mystique en espanol! 🙂
Especially with the accent over the first i, which I can’t figure out how to do.
I like a simple, one word name like Sustain, or Fresh (I kow that’s been suggested…) how about “Goodness” as in oh my goodness and as in good for you…
Hi Gina! So many great suggestions here, I will add mine to the mix:
GROW
NOSH
Good luck with everything!!
Another suggestion is Sabroso which I think means tasty.
Pure bakery
Green Bakery
Simple Treats
Rawvolution
The only thing I could think of is “Delicious.” Can’t you just hear the conversation:
“Where is lunch from?”
“It’s Delicious.”
I would eat there. Well, I would eat there no matter what you name it!!
P.S. I also love that you sometimes buy foods just because they’re beautiful. I’ve done that! That’s a sign of a true foodie right there =).
Carpe Diem-Bakery and Cafe
Tayste
The Grove/ The Grove Bakery/ The Grove Carryout/ The Grove To Go…
“Grove” makes me think of a garden with plenty of fresh fruit, vegetables, sunshine and happiness!
One more! The Green Spoon
hi! i am a reader but not usually a commenter 🙂 thought i’d try to come up with some ideas!!
1. hit the spot cafe
2. cafe feel great
3. eat well cafe
4. cafe food inspired
5. inspired greens cafe
hi lacey!
love them, thank you!
Pure Bliss
How about The Macaroon or Cafe Macaroon – as in what started the whole idea…
My suggestion: GROOVE. (Gluten-free Raw Organic Original Vegan Eats) Because when you’re feeding your body right, don’t you just feel like you’ve hit your groove?
AHHHH! i love it!
I absolutely LOVE Secret Garden…one of my favorite books! What about Liberte’ or Libertad which mean Freedom in French and Spanish, i.e. freedom from processed food. Liberte’ Cafe’
How about….
The LONG LIFE CAFE
CAFE LONGEVITY
CAFE ETERNAL
AMAZING EATZ
CAFE VIVO or CAFE VIVA
I love this question! And I also love the responses…I have long called one of my sister’s failing projects her “fakery bakery” (seriously girl, go out and get it or quit whining), and I’ve actually been to places with some of these names. Most of them were super hippie-dippie, and not in a good way…and it’s very hard to recommend “The Weirdoname Cafe” to others 🙂
I love Caitlin’s idea of “One”.
On your behalf, I’d like to veto “Feast” and any other names that are already taken by relatively popular American restaurants (confusing for people who are foodies, sets you up for potential legal issues, and also difficult to market). (Can we tell by now that this topic has something to do with my career?) I’d also like to veto anything like “Origins” that’s already the name of a prominent brand, even if it’s non-food, because let me tell you how I’m not going to eat at “Head and Shoulders Cafe”.
And finally, my contributions, some of which are more awesome than others. I agree that a single word is good, because your tagline can always be “A natural foods cafe” or “Raw, Vegan, Gluten-Free Goodness”, or “Foodgasms by the pound.” Keep it simple 🙂 The name should inspire the feeling that you want people to have from eating your food. List o’names:
Heart
Shine
Plenty
Valor
Vim
Verve
Flourish
Bold
The plans are looking great- how exciting! Also – nice job on the yummy shrimp dinner – sounds great!
I was thinking “Gineva.” It would be a play on your name (obviously) and a reference to Geneva, the “Peace capital” of the world and the place where countries have met to forge new pathways to behave more ethically and diplomatically.
Cocina Casera
Spanish for Home Cooking !!
Foodgasm cafe?
Sure to draw a crowd hahahah
Great names already!!!
How about “Keepin it Real”
I like Face Rawkin’ Cafe (since everything you eat is so face rockin delicious ;-))