Vegan Cafe Jax announced it will hold a community grand opening at 9 a.m. April 27 at the eMed Multispecialty Group plaza at 2624 Atlantic Blvd, Suite 3.
The restaurant is a partnership of Dr. Rene Pulido and Chef Mat Bardroff.
Bardroff’s sister, Jenna Bardroff, also is a chef at the “plant-powered” restaurant.
“Serving familiar ethnic dishes and using traditional culinary arts & sciences, the cafe aims to create outstanding wholesome meals reimagined,” the restaurant said in a news release. It said the restaurant menu is 100% vegan.
Selections include bowls, sandwiches, burgers, wraps, soups, sides, lemonade, teas, fair trade coffees,fruit smoothies and desserts.
Raw, gluten-free, and oil-free options will be available.
It will have six tables for indoor seating, spaced for health and safety.
Vegancafejax.com says the hours are 9 a.m.-7 p.m. Monday-Thursday. It is closed Friday-Sunday.
Breakfast,, served until 11 a.m., is $3.50 to $6.50 for bagels, a tofu scramble sandwich, avocado toast and waffles.
Bowls, wraps, sandwiches and burgers (black bean) are $9 and available starting at 10 a.m.
Bowls and wraps include Mediterranean Rainbow Quinoa, El Vegano and others. Sandwiches include Jackfruit BBQ, Mushroom Reuben, Southwest Grilled Cheese and the black bean burger.
There also are cookies, pies, cakes and cupcakes with rotating flavors.
The release said food will be served in eco-friendly, compostable or recycled plastic to-go containers with compostable cutlery and napkins.
The release said Pulido and Mat Bardroff founded Vegan Cafe Jax in 2021.
“The goal of Vegan Cafe Jax is to provide delicious and affordable meals the whole community can enjoy and benefit from as an exceptional form of preventative medicine,” the release said.
Pulido is founder and CEO of eMed Multispecialty Group.
Pulido said in the release that it is not in the pharmaceutical industry’s “best interest to correct or treat the underlying cause of disease, which 99% of the time is diet and activity related.”
He said that instead, the industry “would much prefer to rake in billions of dollars’ worth of profit by selling oil-based chemicals that only slightly improve some disease symptoms without giving consideration to the underlying problem or the side effects that they cause.”
Pulido said he is “tired of pushing pills. It’s about time I start offering a treatment that is actually curative, restorative, and not associated with horrible risky complications.”
The release said 10% of revenue on the grand opening day will be donated to CJ Acres Animal Rescue.
