42-Year-Old Organic Food Store Opens Vegan Kitchen and Juice Bar in Brooklyn
Live Kindly
A minimum 95 percent of ingredients used at Perelandra are organic. The business is also committed to sustainability, ensuring customers that all of its packaging is completely recyclable. Further, all unsold food is donated to a local charity, Rescuing Leftover Cuisine, that caters for the less fortunate.
Brooklyn’s Perelandra Opens Plant-Based Kitchen and Juice Bar
One Green Planet
The new addition will include a hot bar buffet, a sandwich counter, a kiosk for prepared meals, and a case for baked goods and pastries including treats like root vegetable muffins.
Cooking up change: Adored Bklyn Heights grocer expanding in-store kitchen’s size, menu, hours
Brooklyn Paper
“This is the most significant expansion we’ve done in nearly 20 years,” said co-owner Allison Buckingham. “We’re close to tripling the size of the kitchen.”
T Fashion Editors’ Guide to New York
The New York Times Style Magazine
A short list of places to relax, enjoy a meal, shop a bit — and find some peace between the shows during fashion week (and always).
“Truly my favorite place in New York is Perelandra Natural Food Center in Brooklyn Heights, a community haven that’s been around since the ’70s. Ten minutes in the freezing bulk grains and nuts room is my ‘me’ time.”
An Insider’s Guide to the Stunning, Historic Neighborhood of Brooklyn Heights
Vogue
Where to Eat: For a quick snack or inexpensive bite, stop in Perelandra for organic, healthy food to go (chili sin carne, seitan bahn-mi, gluten-free chocolate truffles, and the like). And don’t leave without ordering a juice or smoothie (the Green Beret, with leafy greens, blueberry, banana, mango, raw cacao nibs, hemp protein, and unsweetened almond milk, is a knockout).
If PepsiCo Told You They Suddenly Cared About Your Health, Would You Believe It?
Alternet
"Health conscious consumers do buy [these sodas], and I would argue that they are a healthier alternative to traditional soda in that --the brands that we sell, at least-- do not contain corn syrup, artificial colors or artificial flavors, which the majority of traditional sodas do contain,” Allison Buckingham, MBA, New York State licensed dietitian-nutritionist and co-owner of Perelandra said. Still, she notes that even these healthier alternatives, despite their all-natural ingredients, still contain sugars and calories and she strongly recommends “consuming any sweetened beverage in moderation.”
Perelandra finds success in the city, and you can too
New Hope
Talk to your customers regularly. “It’s important to stay in touch with what your customers really want in order to keep them coming in,” Buckingham says. “Ask them what you’re doing well, what they’d like to see done differently and if there’s anything that they’d like you to carry. Always let them know that you value their opinion.”
