Come Jan. 17, Local Harvest‘s Tower Grove cafe will open with a new name, LHC, and a new concept.
The biggest concept-change for the cafe will be an addition of a juice bar. The cafe will also feature more house-made cultured items such as yogurt, kefir, sauerkraut, kimchee and fermented pickles. For those who have frequented the cafe on Morgan Ford Road during the past five years, another change might feel familiar – LHC is returning to counter service (except for brunch, which will remain the same).
In addition, there will be more options for carryout at the cafe, so patrons can order a family-sized meal at a lower price than if each meal was ordered individually. Local Harvest owner Maddie Earnest told The Scoop, “Let’s say you’re having four people over for dinner, and you want food that is high quality, in line with your values, but you don’t have time to make it; we can package that up.”
Lastly, the cafe’s menu will become slightly more condensed. Besides the regular brunch menu available on the weekends, the breakfast menu will be limited, paired down to juices and baked goods, and the lunch and dinner menu will be the same. “For a restaurant our size, it makes it simpler for us,” Earnest said. “It will also increase the speed in which we get food to people.”
This article appears in December 2013.