[EVG photo from October]
A new tenant has taken over for the short-lived NatureEs, the juice bar/cafe/wellness center combo at 21 E. First St. in Jupiter 21, the residential building that rose from the former Mars Bar and several other businesses on Second Avenue and between Second Avenue and the Bowery.
Signage arrived late last week for The Alchemist's Kitchen...
Here's more about them via their website:
The Alchemist's Kitchen is dedicated to connecting you with the power of plants. We work with the finest herbalists who are producing high quality botanical medicines, herbal remedies, and whole plant beauty products. We celebrate artisanship, sustainability, and conscious living. We look to support the global need to increase plant diversity, and the sharing of ancient wisdom from indigenous cultures.
We believe strongly in the education and instruction on the use of all whole plant formulations and herbal remedies. We consider our suppliers part of our extended family, interactive, collaborative....creating one chain of supply from seed to tincture. We work closely with teachers and botanical experts, many of whom are our suppliers, to educate and inform our community.
It appears they've been in business online for some time, part of the Evolver Learning Lab... and this is their first brick-and-mortar (sorry, hate that term) storefront. An EVG reader stopped by the space last week, where he found them still getting up and running. Among other items, they are selling to-go bottles of REBBL elixirs, such as Turmeric Golden Milk and Maca Mocha.
For now, the Kitchen, which will eventually include a tonic bar, has limited hours... that will expand in the week ahead...
There are also an array of events/lectures at the space coming up...(you can find that list here).
As previously reported, there were plans plan to convert the NatureEs space into a Spanish bistro. The applicants withdrew from the November 2015 CB3-SLA meeting. The name of former Mars Bar owner Hank Penza, who died this past Oct. 29, is one of four principals listed on the active liquor license for the space.
Several people had noted that the address was home to some kind of invite-only club in the basement space. Not sure of the status of that...
Previously on EV Grieve:
NatureEs calls: About the organic cafe coming to where Mars Bar 2.0 was in the works
A quick look inside NatureEs, the new organic cafe coming to 21 E. 1st St.
At NatureEs, the Mars Bar replacement that apparently is no longer open
You have no idea how long I've been waiting to be connected to the power of plants!
ReplyDeleteBong store!
ReplyDeleteFinally, something interesting and potentially useful opening up. And with a tasteful sign, no less!
ReplyDeleteIt fascinates me how the hippie culture took so long to turn "artisanal" and use public-relations-speak to get millennials to spend some cash.
ReplyDeleteThe Bowery may not become what developers expected it to become. Sure there are a lot of posers walking around but there are also some tourists from the midwest who may only go to the 7-11 or Katz's (it's in that movie they all love). Upscale retail so far has failed and I predict Olive Garden and chain stores to eventually find their footing here, the complete opposite of hip. Note to developers and their buddies in our city and state governments, hip does not do well with insane rents only chains do.
ReplyDeleteDonald Capoccia? The developer/garden destroyer?
ReplyDeleteThe Alchemist's Kitchen will not doubt also be a short-lived experiment. I wish I had gone to the creative writing program that many of the websites EV Grieve cites when a new business is opening. I wish everyone starting a new business luck.
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