So we opened on Tuesday and the response over the first two days has been amazing. A really lovely experience. So many of our wonderful customers from the last Paddington shop have been in to visit us that it’s as though we only shut last week and simply re-opened this week in a new spot. When in fact it will be 3 years in April since we left Paddington.
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You may have heard the rumours. Urban Grind is reopening in Paddington on the 1st of Feb. It’s going to be just like the last Paddington Urban Grind only better. At home we have it nicknamed Urban Grind 2.0, which is a bit geeky but hey, we are really tired. So it’s at 131 Latrobe Tce and we hope to see you really soon. More updates once I get some sleep. Thanks
So we have been working on a little side project Rach and I, as we nurture our hopes and dreams of reopening Urban Grind one day.
It all started when we realised that we had a virtual cafe under the house and we could just plug the coffee machine in, put stools down the driveway and invite our family, friends and the old Urban Grinders that we knew how to get in contact with. Due to a great suggestion by a friend of ours Yen, we invited the neighbours in our street too. It was also Yen that suggested we take it on the road. Suburban Grind seemed like a perfect name. Called some friends and managed to get support from my Di Bella Coffee, Barambah Organics, Total Generators and map magazine and in no time we were serving free cafe style coffee in another good friends sisters garage.
Want to know more? Want to have Suburban Grind come to your house? Check out the website generously designed by this young fellow.
A big thanks to everyone that has helped us get it this far.
Today I walked 9kms from my house to work in barefeet. It took me 2 hours. It hurt a lot and I have one blister on the sole of my foot. But I did it to raise awareness of children in countries that live everyday without shoes. A fact that creates many social issues for these children and their families. Issues that we don’t have to face here in Australia. I was planning to catch the train home barefoot and walk the last part home but thought better of it as I probably wouldn’t have been able to work tomorrow.
Facts from the One Day Without Shoes website…
Awareness is nice but how do we help these children? By buying a pair of shoes from TOMS SHOES. You see “TOMS was founded on a simple premise: For every pair you purchase, TOMS will give a pair of shoes to a child in need. One for One.”
So it’s fashionably easy to help put a pair of shoes on a child’s feet.
I promise that the next Urban Grind will not sell bottled water. I have cared about this for a while and it is time I got serious about it too. The whole bottled water thing really is crazy. Just the price we pay is crazy enough. But thanks (again) to Annie Leonard we have a great little animation that spells out the situation to make it easy for us to make the decision to stop drinking bottled water. I really do hope that you check out The Story of Bottled Water. I also can’t wait to see a Doco called Tapped on the same subject.
