Food for Ascension Cafe knew how to make vegan food, using local, organic ingredients to craft wholesome dishes that were expertly spiced. Unfortunately, though, the restaurant, which was located on Seventh Street just west of Fourth Avenue, announced via Facebook that Saturday, August 1 was their last night of service at that location.
According to the post, the support for what the cafe was seeking to accomplish wasn’t enough to keep the restaurant running.
We discovered that there just is not enough understanding of the true meaning of “slow food” to support what we were doing in the Café in Tucson to justify the time and energy we were putting into it.
The post goes on to say that the current location will become an extension for the Sea of Glass Center for the Arts. However, that isn’t the end of the story for Food for Ascension either. The restaurant plans to open another location in the Tubac area at Avalon Gardens. While a date for that opening wasn’t announced, you can stay up to date with more information by following Food for Ascension on Facebook.
The post finished by thanking the farmers, staff and customers that made the cafe what it was, as well as the founders Gabriel of Urantia and Niánn Emerson Chase. Since Tubac is just a short jaunt down the I-19, Tucsonans can look forward to the new iteration of the cafe, in their words, “with great expectations for the ever-expanding future.”
This article appears in Jul 30 – Aug 5, 2015.
Sad that the owners would rather insult Tucsonans by saying we don’t understand slow food than accept any responsibility for the restaurant’s failure.
Yep. It’s always the customers who are to blame when a restaurant fails.
One should never give any consideration to those worthless jerks, they don’t do anything besides bring cash into the place, anyway.
Screw ’em.
Service was very friendly, but the food was in the experimental category for most of the customers. I tried it once but found the cake I ate far too sweet. The best way to develop dishes is to serve what customers like. Sorry to see them go, but I remember some advice from a friend when you open a restaurant. “People don’t care what it lookes like, as long as it tastes good.”
Best wishes for the Avalon Gardens location. It is not easy to get at, either bouncing down the barely drivable and restricted right of way of the Union Pacific Railroad behind Tubac, or taking the Santa Gertrudis Lane in Tumacacori, often inches deep in mud and fording the Santa Cruz River, which is something most people in cars won’t be doing.
“Another Location” – see phoenix