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if you're looking for healthy food
that's organic you gotta check out the
ontology cafe I'm gonna go inside meet
the owners and see what their story is
all about come with me right now I'm
with Ashley
her husband Josh's he's whipping up some
food and your little boys are running
around so it truly is a family-owned
business very much so and then you guys
are organic and plant-based so we don't
have any animal products no meat
products no cheese no eggs or anything
like that we do a lot of still familiar
foods like we do a waldorf chickpea
salad instead of chicken salad we do a
tofu egg salad ever I go egg salad and
stuff like that now I see your little
boys running around little kids are
picky eaters but they love the food here
yes they do
we have definitely we have two
sandwiches actually named after both of
our kids Jackson and Ryker we have a
bagel that he absolutely loves with
cream cheese you couldn't even tell it
was vegan and then we also have like a
tofu scramble breakfast bagel because
right there could be tofu scramble all
day long again you're describing all
these entrees and for a place that's
plant-based the menu seems huge and you
have a new menu yes we just started our
new seasonal menu on Monday so we're
super excited about that we've added
some more familiar items like grilled
cheeses and
oops and stuff like that it's really
hard to find a lot of plant-based stuff
around town that has everything that
sounds great again it is funny when you
think about either vegan or just
vegetarian you think of like kale and
eating a lot of salads but that's not it
at all here no not at all like this week
we have a special every week and we
actually have tacos this week we're
super popular czar nachos we have this
last week so a lot of like familiar
decent foods that everyone knows about
well we just put our own spin on it and
we make it plain taste and then the
other big part of what you do are the
juices that you have the smoothies yes
and we are the only organic cold-pressed
juicer at the beach so all the produce
we use is organic which i think is
really important when juicing because
you're getting all the essential
ingredients out of the produce and you
don't want to get any kind of chemicals
or pesticides or anything that you're
drinking and each bottle contains about
two to four pounds of produce Wow
so the amount that you're drinking is
really not what typically someone would
eat in any home
and define cold press so cool press the
produce is never heated up so you know
when they say like you steamed broccoli
you lose a little bit of the nutrients
so our kind of spin on it is that you
don't lose any nutrients that you're
getting when you're taking the juice and
besides obviously having a great menu
you guys are doing some great things in
the community right now yes we partnered
up with like a ton of local people like
we get a lot of our greens from Eleni
Beach urban farms from gy o greens we're
also doing a big fundraiser block party
for one of our good friends that was
recently diagnosed with breast cancer
this year and I'm sure there's tons of
people affected by this and
how terrible it can be so we're just
trying to kind of bring everyone
together and raise the money for her and
have a little fun doing it
that sounds again just like a great
thing to do your family-owned you're in
the community doing some great things so
congratulations to all your success
right now what I'd like to do is talk to
you one of your sons Jackson just on his
take on this whole place that's I'm good
yeah absolutely
Jackson you made this for me what
exactly is this what kind of smoothie
can I try it
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that is really good give a secret recipe
ya know now do you like eating your
vegetables yes what do you like about it
it's vegan so what exactly does that
mean what is vegan being me what you
just eat vegan stuff vegan stuff so like
vegetables is it just kale and spinach
or other things other things what's your
favorite favorite vegetable carrot
what's your least favorite vegetable but
I won't tell your mommy and daddy let's
pray cucumbers you don't like you
coppers no you have it
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so I was just hanging out with Jackson
he made me this great smoothie now we're
gonna put Josh's skills to the test when
it comes to the food that you made so
what do we have here oh here we have two
new items that we added to our menu we
have everything bagel with cream cheese
and avocado it's kind of like one of my
favorites I make it all the time for
myself so you can get it this way or you
can get it my way or Ashe this way and
it'll come with hot sauce and sprouts
and like all the fixings this is an egg
salad sandwich that we're doing just to
play on Excel it it tastes like egg
salad so I mean that's just we try to do
familiar food but make it healthy and
you know keep it simple these are potato
tacos that we made for the week there
with some special coordinate or corn
tortilla they're delicious but they're
only here for a week so come get them
soon
i'ma manage to talk about something
being plant-based and this is what it
looks like how cool is that what I'd
like to do right now Josh if you don't
mind I'm gonna try this one so if you
can give me a minute or two I'm Annie
and I'm gonna catch up with everybody in
just a second
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thank you so much for allowing me to
come in here have some great food and
hanging out with you it really is this a
great place for the family to hang out
and this is a little kid section right
yeah we have a little kids section for
when we're here and for when other
parents are here that their kids can
hang out and they can actually enjoy a
lunch together
Riker did you have something to say he
is speechless right now
because you got a little full tummy from
eating all the good food right yeah I'm
gonna play Candyland over here now
you're talking about that great event
one more time can get the details the
dates times and all that's know yeah
it's here at play ontology we partnered
up with Bruges next door and we're gonna
be all around the corner over here on
October 14th from 3 to 7 and then if
people want to learn more about here
where can they go play ontology cafe.com
alright thank you guys we appreciate it