New Florida Raw Food Restaurant in Tampa Bay

Florida Vegetarian & Raw Food Restaurant

Exciting news for Florida residents…a new vegetarian and raw food restaurant is opening in the Tampa Bay area. 

Leafy Greens Cafe will serve raw food dishes and desserts, along with some cooked vegan and vegetarian dishes.  The cafe will be located in North Redington Beach on the Gulf of Mexico (in Tampa Bay).  I'm very happy for Denise Becknell, who owns the cafe.  Denise has secured a great location, and is waiting on licensing before formally opening in August or September.  She writes:

"We are waiting on licensing and we will be all set.  I am really hoping to be open Aug 1 — but we are in a holding pattern waiting for the licensing.  The current owner shut down almost a year ago and is trying to get the old license reinstated so we can just switch ownership.  It could take 3-4 weeks.  The restaurant has a motel attached to it, and we hope to turn it into a raw food retreat in the future too!  This is only the second raw restaurant in Tampa Bay — we are SO ready for this here!  I am including vegan and vegetarian dishes because the kitchen is FULLY equipped and we can entice others into trying our raw food.  We plan to walk around with trays of sample raw food so that we can get people interested.  We are also located across the street from a beautiful Gulf Beach, and we are going to cruise the beach with food to get people into the restaurant to try our new place too!"

Florida rivals California for the largest number of vegetarian and raw food restaurants.