Jardin Cafe Bringing 'Fresh, Healthy, Local' Food To Patchogue

PATCHOGUE, NY—Jardin Cafe wants to live up to its name, which means garden in Spanish. The new Patchogue Village restaurant's tagline is "fresh, healthy, local."

The owner of Don Quijote in Patchogue and Miller Place, Blayker Lopez, has taken over the closed NOLE Cafe space at 90 E. Main St. in the village where plans to offer a new kind of cuisine with Jardin Cafe.

The cafe is "committed to bringing our community a healthier alternative—real food, fresh and affordable," an Instagram post from the new eatery promises.

The cafe will serve warm bowls with a rice or quinoa base, two sides, one vegetable and one protein. The ingredients will be seasonal. An "avo-taco bowl" features tofu ground beef, black beans, brown rice, charred corn, roasted peppers, avocado and toppings.

Lopez opened Mexican and Spanish restaurant Don Quijote in 2002.

He "came to the United States from Colombia as a young teenager and began working in the restaurant industry to help support his family. He started from the bottom of the industry and worked his way up. With hard work and support from his friends and family, [he] opened two locations."

Jardin Cafe is opening soon, but no official date has been set yet.

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