Local eateries offer plant-based tastes

Food Forest Cafe gets new owners

Nateure’s Plate and the Vegan Sweet Home Bake Shop recently opened at 182 Charlotte St., in the former Brio Gusto location. Owners Nate and Danielle White and Courtney Vanden Anker have split the space into a unique combination of a plant-based eatery and bar and a bakery.

Vegan Sweet Home has an established following from the Peterborough Farmers’ Market. The restaurant side offers a full and varied menu of tasty vegan dishes. Stop in, or check out nateursplate.com or on facebook.

The Food Forest

And still on the vegan beat ... Lasair Wood is just 19 years old, and the proud new owner of The Food Forest Cafe. The Food Forest is a gluten-free and 100 per cent plant-based vegan cafe serving fresh organic juices and smoothies, gourmet salads, soup, desserts, cooked and raw entrees, and teas and organic fair-trade coffee, as well as super-foods and supplements for sale. Lasair has been working at The Food Forest, which is located at 135 Hunter St. W. for the past year. Learn more at Foodforestcafe.com .

Personal shopping

Gord’s Personal Shopping and Delivery is a new service offering shopping or pick-up from grocery stores, pharmacy’s and retailers and delivery to anyone who needs one less thing to do. Gord promises same-day delivery anywhere in the Peterborough area, any time of day and offers a convenient pay terminal at the door. Find Gord’s Personal Shopping and Delivery on Google, or just call 705-559-7351.

Poems and stories

There are more than a dozen very proud local women who recently launched their new book called Unsettling Activisms. One of those women is Andrea Dodsworth, who tells me that the collection of poems and stories is available at Hunter Street Books, amazon.ca or womenspress.ca and all royalties will be donated to the Sacred Water Circle, a local indigenous-based group. Congratulations to all.

Be Catering turns 20

And congratulations to Bonnie Kubica and her crew at Be Catering on celebrating 20 years in business! BE was recently chosen to represent Peterborough and the Kawarthas at Queen’s Park for the Ontario Culinary Tourism Alliance Day. Visit Becatering.com. Stuart Harrison is general manager of the Peterborough Chamber of Commerce. To submit your business news, send an email to stoosnews@nexicom.net or call 705-748-9771 ext 202. Please note, Harrison does not test any of the products mentioned, or endorse any of the businesses mentioned in The Business Beat.