HOUSTON – Now greater than ever, we’re looking for our native favorites whereas additionally making an attempt to eat more healthy, as a result of let’s face it – the quarantine eating regimen doesn’t embrace lots of recent greens. Fortunately, companies like Eatwell Bakery Café on Westheimer Street are nonetheless open and keen that will help you take the guesswork out of getting wholesome meals for your loved ones.
Again in early March earlier than the Metropolis of Houston issued the stay-home-work-safe order, Houston Life’s Lauren Kelly stopped by Eatwell Bakery Café to satisfy its native small enterprise proprietor, Ziad Kalek, hear his story and uncover the mission behind his wholesome meals.
“We began eight years in the past. My spouse wished a bakery café with cappuccino, espresso, somewhat cake and cookies,” mentioned Kalek. “We began including this and that. It’s out of hand now, and we make every little thing in-house from scratch.”
The café’s identify “Eatwell” stems from a sentiment current in lots of households. In accordance with Kalek, when youngsters complain to their moms about feeling below the climate, one of many first questions she’s going to ask is “Are you consuming properly?” In excessive circumstances, the query is changed by a command of “Eat properly!” Kalek goals to share this motherly love with all of his prospects.
“The place I come from, Lebanon [in] the Center East, we have been all introduced as much as have that form of hospitality,” mentioned Kalek. “Eighty % of our enterprise are repeat loyal prospects. We all know them by identify, they usually deliver their youngsters right here as a result of they need to elevate their youngsters to eat wholesome.”
Probably the most fashionable dishes at Eatwell Bakery Café is their falafel sandwich. Although the enterprise has been open for eight years, Kalek has been making falafel sandwiches for greater than 4 a long time.
“Once we began making falafels again in ’74 on the Essential Road Pageant, we did five-thousand sandwiches in three days,” mentioned Kalek. “That’s how the falafel sandwich is finished!”
For these unfamiliar with the delicacies, the falafel is a well-liked Center Jap deep-fried dish made with chickpeas and different components. Watch the video above to see Lauren Kelly strive her hand at making them.
Not too long ago, Eatwell Bakery Café, together with different native companies, has seen a dip in gross sales. Houston is famend for its variety and meals, however with ordinances to remain dwelling, restrictions on eating in and an increase in unemployment charges there are rising considerations for these working within the restaurant business. Although many locations are nonetheless open for supply or take-out, it has been a troublesome adjustment for companies to make.
“We strive our greatest to deal with this example. To be protected and to make our prospects protected [when] they arrive in,” mentioned Kalek. “I hope every little thing might be okay – for us, for the entire nation.”
Eatwell Bakery Café has modified its menu to accommodate present social wants. Whereas most of its common menu objects are nonetheless accessible for buy, prospects can now additionally order every week’s value of meals for households or people. Every meal will even embrace a free loaf of bread. Moreover, whereas provides final, Kalek is providing a free loaf of bread to anybody unable to search out bread for buy at grocery shops.
Eatwell Bakery Café is open for take-out between eight a.m. – 2:30 p.m. every day.
To position an order, name 713-360-6600. For extra info, you’ll be able to go to their Fb web page here.
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