Community Café Does Bumper Trade
The
Green Café, Community Café Managed by Bute Healthy
Living Initiative, in Rothesay, Isle of Bute
April
11/2007
After
only a year of operation, the Green Tree Café in Rothesay
on the Isle of Bute is doing a bumper trade. By the end of
March 2007, 7364 meals and snacks had been served since the
Café's opening on January 13 2006..
The
Green Tree Café is part of a community project to improve
diet in people of all ages, and is complemented on Bute by
lunch clubs and basic cookery courses to make healthy eating
as simple, affordable and enjoyable as possible.
At
a recent management meeting of Bute Healthy Living Initiative,
which runs the Green Tree Café, Project Coordinator
Yennie Van Oostende reported that the Café was already
generating income which would be ploughed back into community
projects. The pleasant décor and cheerful atmosphere
have attracted a wide variety of customers to sample the fare,
which includes a balanced range of breakfast, lunch and snack
items.
The
menu is designed to be tasty and affordable, as well as healthy,
and whenever possible organic, local and seasonal ingredients
are used. The fare varies from the traditional – beans on
toast, using organic baked beans or Tuna and Sweetcorn Stuffed
Baked Potatoes – to the more adventurous – filled wraps or
Warm Chicken Salad with Sweet Chili Dressing, and includes
a range of vegetarian dishes like Stuffed Pepper with Feta
Cheese and Grilled Quorn Sausage with Tomato on Toast. Organic
fruit and vegetable juices and herbal teas are offered along
with the traditional tea and coffee, and each day has a different
soup and Daily Special Main Course. Scones, muffins and fresh
fruit provide dessert.
All
the menu items are doing well, and staff report that one faithful
customer has been enthusiastically working her way through
the menu, lunching every day on a different selection.
The
Green Tree Café opens Tuesdays to Fridays from 10am
to 2pm. Everyone, whether local or visiting the Island , will
find a healthy welcome at Rothesay's first Community Café.
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