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A look inside Healthy Bites To-Go, opening Friday
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A look inside Healthy Bites To-Go, opening Friday
Meal Ticket dropped by Katie Cavuto Boyle's Healthy Bites To-Go (2521 Christian St.) over the weekend for a peek at the nearly-there market and cafe, which'll debut this Friday, Feb. 19. (First made note of it in November.)
The cozy corner space, across Grays Ferry Avenue right in the heart of the sub-'hood the locals like to call Devil's Pocket, is multi-concept. As a cafe, Healthy Bites will feature soups, frittata and breakfast/lunch sandwiches to go (check out a sample menu), plus rotating pre-prepared specialties to take home for dinner. Everything will reflect the local chef/dietician's fresh/healthy/local approach.
Cavuto Boyle, who represented Philly on the last season of The Next Food Network Star, will also be a bit of a boutique green grocer, carrying produce, local dairy (cheese, raw milk, yogurt) and meats/seafood (chicken and pot pies from Griggstown Quail Farm; susstainable seafood from Otolith) in addition to specialty items like Zahav hummus, fresh pastas (not frozen) from Severino and ground-on-site coffee from Burlap and Bean. (Here's the full product list.)
ALSO, the local chef/dietician's hub will be a pick-up spot for Lancaster Farm Fresh's CSA, and the space will play host to eight- to 10-person cooking classes that'll let folks to jump behind the counter for hands-on instruction.
Hours: Mon.-Fri., 7 a.m.-9 p.m.; Sat., 8 a.m.-9 p.m.; Sun., 8 a.m.-8 p.m.
This may be the single worst retail location in the City. Zero foot traffic and located in a true 'no man's land' next to the Trigen plant. The location dooms this project to fail before it is even open. Sad to see, as it seems like a decent concept that might scrape by for a few years in a better location. In this space, I give it 6 months, tops, depending on the 'sticktoitiveness' of the operators.
What a great addition to Philadelphia! So excited to check it out, and know that Katie won't disappoint with her healthy (much needed) and yummy food!
[...] Meal Ticket gets a peek inside Healthy Bites to Go from Katie Cavuto. The market and cafe is set to open this Friday at 2521 Christian Street. [Meal Ticket] [...]
Honey, do you know anything about this neighborhood? In the past four years there has been tremendous growth and increased foot traffic. Once South Street Bridge reopens and Schuylkill Banks makes the connection to the DuPont Cresent, CHOP moves forward with it's acquisition on Schuylkill Avenue along with Naval Square's completion of it's Schuylkill Avenue phase, Comcast finishes its new switching station and constructs a green space at the corner of 25th and Christian, and Webster Mills finishes its residential development in Devil's Pocket… there's no stopping this neighborhood, Trigen and all. Have you noticed how busy Resurrection Ale House is right around the corner at Grays Ferry and Catherine? This is hardly a "no mans land".
Good Luck - this is great!
Great news! We're happy to share 'hood space with anyone selling Almond Breeze...our passion for their Chocolate Almond milk borders on the insane. Leigh@Resurrection
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