Experimental Cafe With Sprouted Grains, Goat Milk To Open On The UES

UPPER EAST SIDE, NY — Daily Sprouts, an experimental health-focused coffee shop and bakery serving treats made from sprouted grains, will open in Carnegie Hill next month, its owner told Patch.

The cafe, which will be on East 92nd Street between Lexington Avenue and Third Avenue, comes from the creative mind of Svetlana Martynova, an interior designer-turned experimental baker who has lived just over the Upper East Side border in East Harlem for the past 13 years.

She spent two decades designing people's homes to be functional and tasteful, and now she's applying the same sensibility to cafe fare.

"We want to win the taste buds of the people who like their coffee and the whole morning ritual of coffee with the pastry — and we want to bring them better, healthier alternatives," Martynova said.

The idea for cooking and baking from sprouted grains started as a kitchen experiment during the pandemic, Martynova told Patch. That's when Martynova developed a unique savory bread recipe, which she called "KindaBREAD," made with sprouted grains, that really took off among her friends.

"It started probably around the time that everybody was using the kitchen as a playground, the pandemic years, I was experimenting like everybody else, and together with my friend Tatiana, we were sort of intrigued by the concept of replacing traditional grains, seeds, and legumes with their sprouted version," Martynova said.

"It is a better, more nutritionally available and nutritionally beneficial form of consuming grains."

In her continued pursuit of the healthiest, tastiest version of absolutely everything, the coffee shop's menu will be full of better-for-you swaps, all made in-house, she said.

That includes, but is not limited to, sprouted garbanzo bean hummus, a chicory root drink that acts as a non-caffeinated coffee alternative, goat milk, and buffalo milk, Martynova said.

And, once she is fully open, she'll begin developing a proprietary blend of mushrooms to infuse coffee, she said.

"I see this shop as probably a lab or a playground where my employees and I can continue looking for interesting recipes and substituting traditional ingredients with something probably less familiar but more beneficial nutritionally, and creating new taste palettes," Martynova said.

Her exact opening day is up in the air, as construction on the space finalizes, she said, but she is aiming for a January opening, she said.

Daily Sprouts will be located at 163 East 92nd St.

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