Longtime Cafe Moves To Livingston And Brings Fresh, Organic Options

Longtime business owners Allan and Mari Platt recently moved their Sweet Basil’s Café to Livingston and closer to their most frequent customers. 

Patch recently spoke with Allan Platt about what brought him into Livingston and the challenges facing a small business owner. 

When did you open the doors of Sweet Basil’s Café in Livingston?

We had been in West Orange for since 1996 before we moved here to Livingston in July 2012.

What made you want to make the move?

A lot of our clients were from Livingston. We were looking in surrounding towns, but Livingston won out.

As a small business owner, what is your business challenge?

What’s going to be the life and death of this restaurant is going to be the parking. We currently share parking with other local businesses, but there are not municipal lots for people to park in.

What sets your restaurant apart from the myriad other restaurants in the area and surrounding towns?

We are fresh, organic where we can be, have enough vegetarian and vegan items on the menu and make everything from scratch. We even make our own French fries and grind our own beef every single day.

We know what we’re doing and take it seriously. 

We are really mindful about where we buy our products from and meeting our customer needs — all while being award of prices.

STORE: Sweet Basil’s Café

LOCATION: 498 S Livingston Ave, Livingston, NJ 07039

PHONE:(973) 994-3600