Chantal and Mike are a very dynamic duo, one with a dream of beginning a boutique espresso store and the opposite with a zeal for eco-tiny home constructing. When these distinctive passions had been mixed to create Le Bon cafe, an exquisite and uncommon work of purposeful artwork was the end result.
We first met Le Bon Cafe on the Tiny Home Avenue Competition in Pink Hill, North Carolina the place they had been getting an enormous quantity of consideration. At night time, their stunningly crafted cafe lights up and turns into an alluring sight. Later we travelled to their hometown of Asheville, NC to search out out extra concerning the cafe and it’s development in addition to Mike’s tiny home firm, Rolling Roots.
Impressively, the tiny espresso store was really created utilizing about 75% recycled supplies. The sustainability story of the tiny home is extremely necessary to each Chantal and Mike, who’re avid environmental activists and who except for operating a restaurant and tiny home constructing firm are additionally behind the Bolivian Amazon Land Belief Alliance. Naturally, all of the produce from the cafe is sustainably sourced and natural wherever attainable. Le Bon provides reductions on espresso to individuals who convey their very own re-usable cups and the cafe is even towed round utilizing a truck which runs on used vegetable oil.
Though the cafe relies in Asheville, it ceaselessly travels to occasions outdoors of the realm. One of many main advantages to proudly owning a enterprise on wheels is that it could possibly simply be moved to the place the persons are and Le Bon can all the time discover itself within the coronary heart of the motion. There’s no query that the design of the store turns some heads wherever it goes.
Contained in the tiny home is the workings of a completely purposeful cafe. The structure is properly designed to permit for service on each side of the cafe and quick environment friendly workflow inside.
Mike and Chantal are an inspiring couple and collectively are performing some unbelievable issues on this planet, from saving the rain forrest and it’s creatures, to constructing tiny homes and ensuring folks have an excellent cup of espresso.