For those reading this who loved and missed my restaurant, Restauration, I want to explain the trajectory that takes me from Restauration to my new business, Small Wonder Food. Many have asked why I am not reopening as a restaurant and I want to explain why. When my husband and I opened Restauration, the guiding vision was my personal life goal of changing the way people eat. Our tagline was “restoring authenticity to food from the ground up” and our hashtag #eatrealfood. At Restauration, my team and I
I went back to school (again) to study nutrition formally 6 months before we started the process of opening Restauration. I finished my studies a few months after Restauration was forced to close due to a disaster. All along, my plan was to use Restauration as the location to do group and individual nutrition consulting and to teach culinary health education classes. We even had plans to add an outdoor garden to supplement the restaurant beyond what I was already growing at our farm and to use as a demon
After the disaster, we took a step back and regrouped. Owning 2 restaurants was not just insane, but taxing on us as a family to nearly a breaking point. No industry is harder than the restaurant industry and doing it times two left room for little else. I decided to move ahead with my plans to offer nutrition and culinary health education but not reopen as a full-service restaurant. Small Wonder Food may someday have a food service aspect, but not in the immediate future.