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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— Lush Cafe
— Scrumptious Select
— Renew Cafe
— Rev Up
— Divine Delicatessen
— Gina’s Treats (or Gina’s Eats.. Gina’s Goodies.. Gina’s Cafe.. nothing wrong with leaving your name on the cafe when you move :))
— Treat Your Taste Buds Cafe
— Livin’ the Good Life (and then maybe as a slogan or catch phrase, “Livin’ the Good Life… the healthy way”)
— Healthy Visions in Valdosta (or something with “Valdosta” in the name?)
— Wholesome Cafe of Valdosta
Some of these are very cheesy.. haha
1.Fitnessista???
2.raw bliss
3.foodgasms 😉 kidding
4.pure cafe
5.pure eats
6.good eats
7.la bella vita (the beautiful life)
are you going to have good eats for dogs too?
good luck 🙂
The Temple
Zen Garden
Conscious Cafe or Conscious Kitchen
Alive
Flourish
Fresh
Not sure if anyone suggested these yet…
Mother Nature’s Kitchen/Cafe
Whole Soul Cafe
Whole-Hearted Cafe
Complete Joy Cafe
Okay so here are some ideas 🙂
La Vita Sana Cafe (healthy life in Italian) or La Vida Sana (in Spanish)
La Bella Vita Cafe (or La Bella Viesa Cafe since those are your puppers and its kind of a play on words!!!!!)
We have a cafe here in San Diego called the Olive Cafe which is locally owned and has lots of healthy options so somthing like that might be cute…naming it after one of your ingredients like The Date Cafe or The Almond Cafe or The Ginger Cafe or The Coconut Cafe (these are bad examples but you get the picture)
THEN having to do with sweets 🙂 you could do something like Sweet Things Cafe or Sweet Nothings Cafe or Sweet Sunshine Cafe
This one i just think is cute: The Daisy Cafe
anyways some of them might be silly but I hope they give you some ideas!!!
I like one word names for restaurants – I just think they are so much catchier than a long title, you know? Plus, people remember them! Maybe something like:
Pure
Pure & Simple
Crave
Treats
Fun & Simple
Simplicity
I’m sure you’ll find a great name!
My two fave restaurant names are:
Room for Dessert (a dessert bar that is not closed)
Up for Breakfast (a little cafe that was only open from 6am-11am and was on the 2nd floor – the reference to its location made me love it)
Not that you would copy them – but maybe for inspiration?
I also think a lady’s name is always gives a restaurant a comfortable vibe. (Maybe the name of your client’s wife? or his Mama?)
Or a star ingredient can be a simple name (I love this place called “Rye”)
xoxo m
How about “Gluten for Punishment”? Get it? Gluten/glutton? Ok I’m actually kidding with that one. 😉
I’ll throw out a couple more randoms to make up for my punbelievable badness:
– Maca & Mesquite
– Sea Salud (although that sounds a little fishy–I was thinking of seaweed)
Ok I might have to come back later if I think of any other ideas because I have had this window open forever with no more luck! You know, “Tomato of my Dreams” would even be a fun name. I’d totally check it out!
Living Food
Bella Vita
Alive and Well
Marvelous Munchies!
Good Luck!
what about “a su salud”
to your health in Spanish =)
Either with the word Cafe in front or just as is:
Roborant<–something that invigorates, strengthens and restores you
Soul to Soul
Anaitis<–goddess of nature
Aurora <–goddess of dawn
Ambrosia<–food of immortality,agelessness
Patchouli
Patches
Revolution
Sativa<–latin for cultivated
Zora
GOOD LUCK :D!
Garden of Eatin’
😀
What about “Clean Eats”?
or “Good Eats”? (If not trademarked by the Food Network…
or “Green Eats”?
Those all sound like places where I would stop for something healthy & delicious!
I didn’t read through the other posts so I’m not sure if any of these have been used, but here’s what I came up with…
*PURE EATS cafe
*Cafe Bliss (or BLISS cafe)
*Au Natural Cafe (although people might get the wrong idea, ha)
*Nature’s Cafe
*Simply Pure
*Simply Delicious
*Cafe Glow (or GLOW cafe)
*Garden Cafe*
*Healthwise Cafe
*Simply Divine
*Garden of Eats
Good luck with choosing a name! Looks like you’ve got a ton of options!! 🙂
I’m sure I’ll think of more . . . but how about The Naked Gourmet? Or Naked Cuisine? Or Pure Epicurean? Or some combo thereof?
Mo
Sweet Greens or Green and Sweets
The Clean Plate
Clean Plate Cafe
(double meaning–clean food/empty plate
Nirvana
Bliss
🙂
Laurie
There are so many good options out there but a few I thought of were:
Au naturale
Pure (which I saw someone else mention)
Grasshopper (I think it’s cute! and kinda relates to the whole green/veggie thing)
Feel-Good Food?
I like 118 as well. I used to live in a town that had a steakhouse called “Chops 119”. 119 was the address. It had a cool vibe.
There is also a place were I live now called ’10 East’. This is also the address and a little swanky bistro kinda place. You could call it..
The Dish
Forks and Spoons
Uncook Cafe
A la carte cafe
Delish Dish
Amour Cru Bistro (Raw Love in French…check translation, not sure if this is correct grammer)
Bird Food. 😉
New Leaf Cafe
Ahh that tomato looks fabulous!
Ideas…
Healthy Haven
Cafe Live/ Live Cafe
Naturally Delicious
How about Nurishing Noshes?
Don’t have time to read through everyone’s comments so hopefully, not a repeat.
I like:
Fresh Flavor Cafe
or
As Nature Intended
Good luck with your awesome and exciting endeavor!!!
The Almond Tree Cafe
Under the Almond Tree
In an Almond Shell
Zest
Nosh
I thought of Fresh, which I saw mentioned already, or maybe a variation of fresh….fresca , etc…
-Simply Food or Simply Good or just Simple
-La Vida
-Kind
-Cafe Verde
-Orchid Cafe (watching a flower show…random)
-Alive
-Well
-Energy
(w/option of “Cafe” or something at the end/beginning of any)
I’m sure you will get a great name with everyone’s input! I’m excited for you and your partners!!!
Zumbas Bistro
Cafe Zumba
La Zumbas
FitCafe
– Healthy Bites
Gina~
Rock N’Raw 🙂
Bella’s Bites
Tum Tum Luv
Tummy Luvin
Smile
B
Didn’t read through all of the comments so I apologize for any repeats…
My ideas are:
Unbaked
Fresh and Clean Eats
Sweet Clean Eats
Sweet Eats
Fit Eats
Clean Crumbs or Clean crumbs cafe
Clean and Sweet
Crumb Clean (Kinda like,”Come Clean”)
Sweet Tooth
Smart Sweets
First thing that came into my mind for a name was: Macaroon!
How about narrowing it down to five choices and letting us vote. There are some great names here. You are going to have a hard time picking just one. Good Luck.
Let’s see:
1.) Sprouted
2.) Arugula
3.) Ambrosia ( = delicious, pleasing to the senses)
4.) Basil
??? GOOD LUCK!
a couple ideas:
bare fruit
blossom
offering
taste
daily veg
good luck!
How about something that includes the love of your life and something you are truly famous for?
The Flying Macaroon
You are truly amazing, I wish you the best!!!
Bamboo
Fresh Fare
Blossom
Marketing major here:
Will you be able to dine at the cafe or just take-out?
If it’s take-out only you may want to consider a name that plays on that important aspect of the cafe.
Fast and Fresh
Veg “out” cafe
Greens to Go
“Go”ing Green
Use your name to position yourself in the market. You have a concept that is going to be unique for your area of the country. Use that to your advantage!
1. Peashoots
2. GreenVIE – like Green + Vie (aka “life) + Green with envy!
3. Thrive Cafe
“In a Nutshell”
MMm I love me some heirloom tomatoes!
Oh Fun!
My name ideas:
– In the Pink (or something to do with “Pink” :))
– Millet
– Bloom or Bloom Cafe
– Blooming Onion
– Sage Cafe
– Virtuous
– Prosper
Good luck finding the name!
Verve
Miso Hungry
THought of another..
Fresh Taste Cafe
Heavenly Eats
Nourish
Green Bites
Diva Eats
Eden cafe
High Energy Cafe
Soul Eats
Balanced Health
Wholesome Eats Cafe
Totally Fresh Eats Cafe
Revive
Congrats again.
macaroonation!
The Healthy Heart Cafe
What a good you have coming up with a name. I don’t envy you!
Beets Cafe
The Beet Goes On
Dreaming of Greens
Fresh. It’s simple, easy and well… Fresh!
~Crudo (Spanish for Raw)
~Rawtastic
~Foodista
~Nourish
~Fresh
~Real Food Cafe
~Goodness
~Rootin’-Tootin’-Pollutin’-Gluten’ ***Just for fun!!! :->
Best of luck!!!!! This is so exciting!!!!!!!!
1)cafe soul
2)la vida
3)cafe amore
4)avec amour
Real food made with love..<3