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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Hmmm how about:
Crunch Cafe
Crisp Cafe
Namaste Cafe
Refreshing Cafe
Cool-Eats Cafe
In honor of the Lady Gaga : Raw Raw Ah Ah Ah lol just kidding!
I think:
Clean
McRAWnolds (joking on this one as well!)
Cru (French for “raw” I know you don’t want Raw in the name but if it was in another language….)
Frais (French for “Fresh”)
Whole Body Cafe
Ambrosia (It is PINK!!)
Bloom
Crisp
Vim and Vigor
VitaliTea
Restoration
Feisty Foods (Raw doesn’t have to be boring)
Okay that is all I’ve got for now! I hope you like them!!! I really want to try these macaroons lol!
Without Cafe
Not Without Cafe
“Greens with Envy Cafe”. Love your blog!
Acculturation Cafe.
The definition of acculturation is “when people from one ethnicity move to an area with different cultural norms, adaptation to the new majority society begins” it takes place “along a continuum of behaviour patterns that can be very fluid, moving back and forth between traditional practices and adopted customs” and it occurs “reflecting an individual’s change in attitudes, beliefs, and behaviours”
take out ethnicity, and you’ve got people going back and forth from their normal diets to your cafe, eating raw/vegan and changing their attitudes, food eating behaviours, etc.
hope that made sense 🙂 was the only name I could think of with all this SCHOOL stuff in my brain. ahh! back to studying.
Bakin’ Love
Cake Walk
Truthful Treats
Cafe au Sante (health cafe essentially)
The Drunken Goat Cafe
Ooo, how fun!! So excited for you 🙂 Hmmm, names…
Eden
Puro
Fresco
Puro Fresco
Kiyoi (pure in Japanese)
Nama (raw in Japanese)
Good luck!!
Free Spirit Café
I have celiac and i am always looking for natural gluten FREE foods that will give me energy and SPIRIT – as healthy vegan and high raw foods do.
Feisty Treats and Eats
Macaroon’s
Pura Vida
how about Salud? I am so excited for you!
Not sure if anyone has already written these since there were too many to read. So if any of the are a repeat, then sorry!!!
The Healthy Way Cafe
Bloom
Heaven on Earth
Simply Pure
Plain and Simple
Wholesome Eats
Refined Treats
Refresh
Transition
Up in Crunch
Crunch Me!
Munch ‘n Crunch
Crunch ‘n Munch
Crunchable Cafe
Cafe Crunch
Chomp
Cafe Invogorate
Herbivorous
The NoName Cafe
or
Emanon (which is no name spelled backwards)
Lunchbox Cafe
I think you should name it Bella Viesa, after your fur babies! 🙂
This might be silly, but something like “Sass” could be fun because you’re so sassy, and your food is too 🙂
Salad Beast 😉
Fresh Zest
Fresh Fiesta
Fresh Feast Cafe (my fave!!)
Fresh Fest Cafe
Or more Fitnessista inspired:
La Casa de Gina
Fitnessista Fest
Cafe Fresh
Homegrown
Earth’s Kitchen
Full
Pure
Simply Delicious
Made with Love
Caterpillar Cafe (eats plants and eatch based foods)
Moxie (informal Synonym for energy)
DISH
Pure, Raw & Simple
Cafe’ Crunch
Fresh Delights
Green Gobbler
🙂
My nickname is Dish so clearly that was my inspiration!! It brings to mind the kind of place where you could hang out and gab with your friends or read a trashy celeb magazine.
The Green Dish
The Rich Dish
Green Dish Cafe
Clean Dish Cafe
Peacock or Parrot Cafe (all colors of the rainbow!)
Rainbow Bright Cafe
Paradise Cafe
Delicious Dishes
🙂
My favorite places to eat have warm and open names, that make people of all walks feel welcome!
Orto’s Cucina (garden and kitchen)
Sage
Fly By cafe
Crave
Or something with the name of the street- Munchies on Melody, Canterbury Cafe…
Real Food Cafe
Love the blog!
Body Mind Refresh
A Delightful Devour
Divine Devour
Stark Naked
Newd (Like NUDE but not [;)
Dishabille (de-clothed in french)
Pea Shoot
pure.suite
Sticks ‘n Stones
How about something simple….just call it-
“yum”
I didn’t read through all the replies (190 of them!!) so sorry if I am repeating!……
Sprouts
The Crunchy Almond
Veggie Patch
The Sprouted Grain
Kale & Cacao
Agave
Crunchy Mama
Pure
Au Natrel
What about: “Live Energy” Cafe/Bistro
Pure Hearth Cafe
Raw Pure Love Eats
Great blog 🙂 Just started getting into it! A few ideas:
Glow in Spanish ~ Resplandor
Little Shrimp~ Renacuajo
or to not be comfused as a Mexican or Spanish restaraunt lol:
Glow
Made with Love
Good Eats
Divinely Simple
🙂
How about Clean Eats? Veats? (stands for vegan-eats) Veats Cafe? Cafe al la Veat? How about just Dish? or The Clean Dish? How about “Lets Do Lunch”? Just Good Cafe, Good 4 U Cafe? Cafe Veats? Simply Delicious? Sweet Basil Cafe?
The Clean Plate
Oh thought of another few…what if you picked a work that has “raw” in it but is part of another word…so you could play with the font etc of the logo if you wanted to play it up, or leave as is like:
Cafe Strawberry (stRAWberry)
or
Caraway Cafe (caRAWay)
Energ-eats
Energy or Energia
Salud
Kinetic
Vigor
Pure Zest
Zest
Naturally
Ambrosia
Nurture
Purity Cafe
Ooh, this is fun!
– Nourish
– Crunch
– Crunchy
– Munch
– NomNomNom
Good Day Cafe
It’s positive, catchy, and full of inspiring implications.
or
To Health
Sounds like a “cheers” sort of statement. I can already hear it,
“Where do you want to meet for lunch?”
“Let’s go To Health!”
Oasis, Fresh
I didn’t read through everything, so hopefully I’m not duplicating
Food Life Cafe
Healthy Beast Cafe
Eat Drink and Be Pure
Pure Nation Cafe
Pure Food
Pure For All
Bella Bounty Cafe
i feel like you always say feast…so why not use that!
I would simply call it “118”. It is intriguing because customers will be like “Why did you name the place 118?”, at which point you can explain to them (hopefully AFTER they are raving about the wonderful meal that they have just eaten) that raw foods are not heated above 118 degrees – hence the name. A vegan/health enthusiast/raw foodist will probably recognize the name of the restaurant as the temperature so it will be like a calling card for them to come on in, but it will not alienate those who may not necessarily fall into one of these groups. And 118 sounds a little swanky too, like “The gals and I met for dinner at 118 last night.” If you want to make certain that customers understand that the restaurant is indeed an establishment that serves food, you could call it “bistro 118 or cafe 118”. I would even use lowercase lettering because they always seem to exude an element of “coolness” and “hipness”.
On the glamour note, I would also decorate the restaurant in a stylish, clean contemporary theme. Keep in mind that this can totally be done without breaking the bank. It will help the restaurant stand out as I am sure that most restaurants in Valdosta do not feature this kind of decor. Think of it as a slice of NYC glamour in your very own Valdosta!
love this!
Namaste Cafe (it rhymes!)
Pure Cafe
Valdizzy Cafe (ha!)
GOOD LUCK!
woww! Here’s a list!
cafe inspire
cafe sustenance
cafe adobe
Earthy cafe
(anything here) Bunnies – love bunnies? raw bunnies? nut bunnies?
Cafe Retreat
Luminous Cafe
Big heart cafe
Cafe Oasis
Cafe of the land/people(or anything else)
Hey!
Maybe a title with the word “Root”, “Roots”, or “Rooted” in it, since all plant/vegan/raw food essentially, in one way or another, comes from something with some kind of root. 🙂
How about..
Simply Pure Cafe
Simply Clean Cafe
Clean Livin’ Cafe
Fresh Food Cafe
Pure Cafe
The Veggie Patch
Just Pure
Balance
Mine all have to do with the feelings I get when I eat healthy (raw, cooked, etc)
– Whole
– Alive & Well
– Refresh