While I’m packing my bags to this year’s Soul Adventures Retreat in Ecuador, I’m planning something that I’ve missed more than anything while running a super busy and growing raw food cafe. I’m going to hold my first workshop in months!

Tanya’s Cafe have partnered up with the incredible Lalani & Co, a family run tea company founded out of a love of single-batch teas. We both believe that organic is best, that desserts can be delicious and healthy at the same time, that tea and cake were meant for each other and that more people are ought to know how to make raw delicacies and pair them with earth’s most precious leaves.

Come to Tanya’s Café this Wednesday 8th October to learn:

-What sweeteners and ingredients are available in a raw food diet.

-How to produce natural colourings. -Simple rules for gorgeous presentation.

-What teas are an ideal match for what desserts.

-The craft of making the most decadent matcha marble cheesecake, superfood brownies and a cream cheese frosting carrot cake.

-Indulge in guilt-free sweets together with carefully paired teas, while you learn the making of each.

WHERE |  Tanya’s Café, myhotel Chelsea, 35 Ixworth Place, SW3 3QX, London

WHEN |  Wednesday 8th October 3pm-5pm

FEE |  £45pp, includes all ingredients, desserts, teas and take away materials. As a bonus- if you’d like to stay on- you can enjoy any of our Superfood Cocktails at 50% off!

Spaces are limited to 15 only, so book via PayPal below or call www.TanyasCafe.com on 0207 225 7538.

Update:

 

SOLD OUT

It’s that time of the year again! Someone asked me if I’ll carry on having a percentage off sale equivalent to my age even when I’m 100 and my answer was Abso-fricken-lutely. The best part about having a birthday is that I get to share the celebrations with you, so I can’t wait till I can give all of my products away at 100% off!!! For now though, I’m enjoying turning a perfect, happy, wholesome 30. It’s also still a decent enough number to have other companies contributing to my/our celebrations and this year I couldn’t believe my luck when all the below brands offered to get involved at a discount so rare to them! Scroll down to see all the amazing products on offer and stock up… You have 30 hours  Sent from Barcelona, with love, big wishes and overwhelming gratitude, xTanya   GOODIES  AVAILABLE: 
Purified- Your complete 7 day detox program | eBook This eBook is a step-by-step detox guide with 2 different menu plans- 1 for the luxury detoxer and 1 for the budget detoxer. Every breakfast, lunch & dinner recipe is designed with a busy individual in mind, taking only upto 30 minutes to prepare. Comes complete with shopping lists. Enter coupon code Tanya30 at checkout and save 30%. Take me there>>

Seduced- Raw chocolate recipes to get very excited for | eBook It’s all in the title really. This eBook contains 22 gorgeous & simple raw chocolate recipes, including raspberry jam centres, marzipan cigars & chocolate coated strawberries. There is even a superfoods glossary & none of the chocolate making requires any special equipment. Enter coupon code Tanya30 at checkout and save 30%. Take me there>> Festive- The best raw food Christmas recipes | eBook This eBook contains the most flavour rich, luxury recipes that are not only incredible for the Christmas & Holiday seasons, but any time of the year. You will find 30 recipes with stunning photography. Everything is as always absolutely free from gluten, dairy, non-cultured soya and wheat, but definitely not the taste! Enter coupon code Tanya30 at checkout and save 30%. Take me there>> Nourished- Comforting raw foods for winter | eBook This stunning full colour eBook contains 39 of my most carefully selected recipes to feel warm, comforted and nourished during winter & beyond. Get a whole heap of extra tips on staying healthy & immunised in the cold, as well as a guide to seasonal local produce. Enter coupon code Tanya30 at checkout and save 30%. Take me there>>

I can hardly believe it, but the dream I’ve been busy building since for ever and working on tirelessly with the best team in the world for the last five months, has just been realised.

I have a cafe! With my own fricken name on it!!!

It’s been so full on that I don’t remember the last time I sat down or even slept for more than 5 hours, but today… today is different.

I finally got a chance to sit on our comfy cafe banquettes, looked around at all the beautiful natural walls full of living plants, observed the hardworking team happily chatting away and then overheard a customer on the phone:

‘I found the perfect new spot for us! Meet me in Chelsea, at Tanya’s.’Then suddenly, it sunk in.
This is the real deal.
These are real customers.
These are real people who really love raw food. My raw food!
These are real chefs who can make my recipes to my standards and perfect them to theirs.
These are real mixologists, who are as passionate about incredible cocktails as I am about quality, superfoods and life.
This is my new family. And they love coming to work and promoting the healthiest lifestyle ever.
This is my new home, my new office, my new happy place.

One day I will figure out how to put so much gratitude, joy and emotions into words, but for now I am happy sitting here breathing in what love created. 

It was built for you, so I invite you to do the same. If you are anywhere near London, stop by and say hello. We are open 7 days a week 7am-11pm (apart from Sunday and Monday when we close at 4pm). 

Our menu offers a variety of breakfast items, including rawtella un-toast and dehydrated fruit crepe, pour over coffee, cold-pressed juices, smoothies and liver flush shooters. Our lunch menu has an even bigger selection and includes multi-layered lasagne, detox salad, soft shell tacos with marinated oyster mushroom meat, pad thai and organic natural wine. Then come four- you can enjoy a shared platter of nachos or cheesecakes and chocolates, as well as our superfood cocktails made only with the top quality, vegan and organic spirits mixed with cold-pressed juices and superfoods.

Here’s more: www.TanyasCafe.com

I can’t wait to see you! Now we have a meeting spot 

With Love,

x Tanya

 

I am truly blown away by the amount of support and excitement coming my way at the news of Tanya’s raw food restaurant opening.

I’ve been filing away your beautiful words ‘for a raining day’, not even thinking about sharing them publicly, because… you know… it’s showing off, giving me a big head and inflating my ego.

And then I get THIS message (below) and it reminded me about why I do what I do. It reminded me that love and kind words MUST be shared. It reminded me that the ego is an illusion, just like ‘the norm’ and ‘the rules’ set by society.

So I choose love and love needs sharing. This message (from last year’s yoga teacher at my Ecuador Soul Adventures Retreat) warmed my whole heart and I am so so grateful…

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Hey Tanya,

it’s been a while and I felt today was the perfect day to give you a shout out.
I want to thank you again for everything. For encouraging me to do IIN, I love it and I’m joining their book course on wed…
For radiating and always continuing to strive for the best and reaching higher and higher on your path, for being authentic, loving, kind and generous to the whole world and yourself!

You are one of my top 10 favourite women whom I have learnt a lot from and have grown from through your massive amount of influence and inspiration.

I want to congratulate you on your ever awesome upgraded life: husband, restaurant, WEBSITE!!!!! WOW!, offerings, sharings and your new look… darling you look stunning and it’s so you!

You’ve blossomed even more to be this most radiant shakti whom I respect, honour and admire.

I wish you a continuing endless abundant journey.
Way to go!
Love and joy
Doris

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Speaking of IIN…

I’ve some BIG news for anyone keen to study nutrition, become a health coach or just get the super fancy certificate from the world’s largest nutrition school!

IIN are offering my friends up to $1,500 off of your tuition if you enrol before 4th July.
Register your name here and I’ll hook you up with more details on the program and your $1,500 scholarship.

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And for all requesting the cafe update, it looks as though we are ahead of schedule and will be opening doors even before August!

I’ve been posting daily progress reports on our Facebook page, so do keep an eye on it for news as they happen. Here are a few snippets..

Hoarding boards going up:

 

Work behind the scenes:

 

The team behind the project, in meeting:

  More updates found here>

Wowee we finally did it!

I say ‘we’, because you guys were the driving force behind every little decision to do with the site, the new free guide, the navigation experience, what I post about and even what I name stuff.

I’m honestly so excited about such a beautiful resource available to you and am over joyed that this new look belongs to Better Raw.

 

I don’t even know where to begin with what has changed about the website (because we changed the lot), so here are my top 5 faves:

1. THE NEW FREE GIFT!

‘One Day Raw- A beginner’s guide to living foods‘ includes everything I ever wanted to know when I first got started with raw foods, a 24 hour menu plan for both blender and juicer users, a heap of tips to keep you going and a menu planner that I use myself.

2. THE NEW LOGO.

I wanted a logo which reflected everything I love about living a healthy lifestyle and eating in a clean way – fresh, fun, vibrant, welcoming, free spirited, loving and wholesome. My friend and an epic graphic designer, Nikki Alice, simply nailed it! The logo is written in free hand to reflect the free spirited attitude to life, it is inside a flower-like circle to reflect the wholesomeness and a natural touch to eating living foods and the last letter flows into an infinity sign to reflect our consciousness and spiritual awakening possibilities when we transition to a more natural way of eating and thinking.

3. THE REVOLVING BANNER.

Now all the top things you search my website for are easier (and prettier) to get to.

4. THE NEW SHOP.

Even though all those kitchen must-haves, which I have been raving about and recommending, are still my favourites- I have categorised them for you (based on your level of experience with raw food) to better find what you are looking for. Here are the categories:
Tanya’s products
Where Tanya shops
Newbie must-haves
Advanced level must-haves
Pro Chef must-haves
Tanya’s favourite extras
Travel essentials
Other great reads, inspirational people and places to eat

5. EASIER-TO-GET-TO POSTS.

The home page now includes a summary of all posts, so you can scroll your way through the latest articles, recipes and updates super fast. Also on the left hand side, you’ll see a list of all those links which you search BetterRaw.com for most of all. And if you still can’t find something, just enter a keyword of a recipe name or an ingredient into the search box and we’ll scan over 200 free recipes currently available to you to find the one you are after.

 

WANNA SEE HOW BETTERRAW.COM HAS EVOLVED OVER FOUR BEAUTIFUL YEARS?

I joined Blogger on April 16th 2010 and nearly peed myself posting for the very first time, because I was so nervous. I originally started the blog as an addition to my company Corporate Creme, which was a corporate wellness program and the Better Raw logo was in the same font as CC:

Then the following year in 2011, as my little blog began to get more traction and enjoy many more visitors than just Elliot and my parents, I devoted more time to prettying it up. I got a new logo (which remained the same for three years and I loved, as it reminded me of grass) and a new template (even though it was a Blogger standard and I soon discovered hundreds more people using the same one in my industry): When I got good at using Blogger, taught myself some coding, discovered all the widgets available for my use and got some professional photography, I hired a designer to make me a beautiful website: Then at the end of 2013, when my business has far outgrown all the possibilities a Blogger blog could offer, it was time to move to the great big unknown and equally exciting world of Wordpress. It was only supposed to be a temporary template, while my current new site got built: And finally... so fresh and so clean, clean! I'm ecstatic to reveal the brand new Better Raw look to you:

I’ve been super lucky to work with the very best team on this project, so I absolutely must tell you about them:

PHOTOGRAPHY

Apart from the foodie shots that you see on all the revolving banners and all page banners (which were taken by me), all other images are either by Samjhana Moon or Tristan Glinski. Tristan is a talented wedding photographer and attended one of our raw food and yoga retreats, where he captured the magic in action. Samjhana is a dear friend and goddess portraiture wizard, whose work we appreciate so much, that we invited her to be the official photographer of my and Elliot’s wedding in New Zealand. I highly recommend these two conscious and kind beings to do any of your photography.

GRAPHIC DESIGN

I’m seriously lucky to be able to work not only with talented people, but also amazing friends. Nikki Alice and I have been buddies ever since uni, because her fiancé and I studied together and worked as commercial property agents at Jones Lang Lasalle. We’ve shared some of our best London memories with them, including our engagement party, and some of our best NZ memories, including our wedding! Working with Nikki on this website (and my next venture, which is in the following announcement!) has been the greatest joy and privilege. She is responsible for the logo, the branding, the website aesthetics, all the social network banners and the whole design of One Day Raw eBook. I wouldn’t go updating anything now without Nikki’s input and her vision.

WEB DEVELOPMENT

My word, I do not envy the tremendous work which website developers do, however I do so admire the amount of patience and devotion they put into their work. The superwoman mama, blogger and developer, Faye Kent, was responsible for moving my whole site from Blogger to WordPress and the entire configurations and coding of BetterRaw.com’s new design. The incredible and speedy, Ansley Fones, whom I met through IIN, was responsible for configuring the entire Shop and Events page on the site. That’s a whole lot of code and tenacity. These ladies are my number-one-go-to’s for anything to do with site configuration, plugin and widget advice.

 

So what do YOU think of the new site? You did help me design it after all 

Leave a comment below, I’d so love to hear from you and no doubt the team involved would too! They worked so hard.