and if anyone is serious...where are or will you be located??? -- North Florida anyone??
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My first idea was "Against The Grain", because it has multiple meanings and it's catchy, but there are already several organizations out there with this slogan (google). There's even a gourmet food website that's all about that, plus againstthegrain.com and against-the-grain.com is already taken, so I ditched it. But good luck Gary. I've thought of the following names: Coconut Cave Pasture Palace Green Grass Grove Jack Kronk's Cave The Old Stone The Grassy Cow The Cream Rises Decor, regardless of name, very warm colors, leaning toward a dark ambiance, to give it a rich look. The type of people that would eat here would need to be fairly well to do (maybe $15-$40 a plate), so I think a high quality decor scheme with a solid theme about it would do best. It would bring people into the 'experience' of it all. A "Cave" theme sounds most appropriate, given the context. But something 'wild' with earthy colors like orange, browns, grays. I also think having some sort of "express" type of deal would be a good idea too, to cater to people who want to quickly get some of this type of food when they're out but don't want to sit down and pay $60-$80/couple. Food: Grass Fed Beef and some Grain Fed Beef options - wide variety of steaks Grass Fed Lamb - multiple options Maybe some game like Bison / Deer and others Some Pork options, including the best bacon possible Pastured Egg dishes, especially for breakfast Wild Caught Fish and Seafood, including Salmon, Shrimp, Crab, Lobster, Scallops Potato and White Rice as "optional" side items to compliment meals Plenty of great Veggie options, grilled or raw Plenty of excellently prepared Salads A variety of Bone Broth Soups A small selection of well raised Chicken dishes Plentiful variety of excellent Cheeses as dish sides All Sauces and Seasonings made in house with pure ingredients and free of bad oils Cook in Coconut Oil, Ghee, Lard, Tallow (customer's choice) Raw Milk and Heavy Cream options Only Pasture Butter in house Choice Fruits No Soda. No Juice. Nuts: Macadamias, Pine Nuts, Almonds, Pecans Wine Selection So who's in? |
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Against the Grain 10% discount if you can do 10 pull-ups in a set as demonstrated on the in-store pull-up bar. |
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The Stone Slab Eggs, bacon, steak, burgers, grilled chicken. Everything grass-fed or pastured. Sweet potato fries, parsnips, turnips - all local and in season. Everything cooked in lard or coconut oil. Big-ass salads drenched in EVOO. Cappuccino machine with grass-fed milk and freshly roasted, ground-before-brewing coffee and espresso. Lots of interesting teas and tisanes. Mineral water. Gluten-free beer. Egg-clarified wine and not wheat-clarified wine. Paleo-friendly desserts. $20 to 40 per person. Edit: And decor? Dark gray walls and floors. Cool. High ceilings. Would love a long stone slab picnic table with wooden stools and then tall bar tables and more wooden stools along one side. If not a stone table then polished concrete tables. And also polished concrete floors. Lots of stone and wood. Big windows allowing lots of natural light by day and a huge antler chandelier over the picnic table giving off light by night. Plus several indoor fire pits (is that against code?). P.S. Once a week, we'll offer a cauliflower, coconut flour or rice flour crust pizza! |
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I would love to see a paleo food cart here among all the other food carts in Portland. I'd call it...The Modern Nomad, or something similar. |
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Clovis You'd cook your own meat on spears. Naturally. |
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Grok's Grub: A Modern Take on Ancient Cuisine |
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The Caveman Cafe |
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I think mine would be Grok's Grub -- for a Breakfast/Lunch only place...Basic, clean lines, with lots of wood in natural states with polyurethane coating. Not as simple of a menu as Chipolte but close. For a casual yet more upscale meal I think I would call it "Fire" and use wood grills for many of the meals. Serving lots of Animal Meat/butter/greens. The walls would be a soothing earth combinatation with random cave paintings as not to overwhelm but to be a conversation starter... Waiting area would have White board with markers for kids and adults to make their own cave drawings.(monitored for any crude images of course) |
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correct me if I'm wrong... (seriously, please do), but didn't this other thread get posted first? I know this question is slightly different, but it did sorta seem like this one hijacked the thunder of the other Paleo Restaurant question... sorry theresa but it's true. (i think) |
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The "Missing link" or "Flint & Flame" "Darwin Diner". |
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I would go minimalist, as a street vendor, a pedal-driven hot dog cart with a parasol that just says, "PALEO". I really don't think a bigger operation could compete these days, unless it's way out of my league (even as a customer). I mean, look at the menu in any middle-class restaurant, everything they offer has the same effect on the appetite as appetizer. That's how they get you to spend more money. That's what pays for the lighting and the seating and the whole shebang. You don't need that crap as a street vendor. Sell somebody a 12 ounce serving of cheek meat, they're good for the day. Anything more elaborate than that is NOT paleo! And if you don't like the idea of sitting on the curb, chowing down some greasy glop from a take-out carton, YOU'RE NOT PALEO!!! Not in my book, at least. |
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Mockafoni grill |
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Otto's Awful Offal Our Liver is the Wurst ;) |
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Nikoley's It goes to 9000. |
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