Healthy Hub Cafe, 100 Bridge Mall, Ballarat
This fabulous little café is a brilliant addition to Ballarat’s growing healthy food culture. Everything is organic and gluten free. Beautiful breakfasts, healthy lunches, daily specials, and a diverse range of beverages keep me coming back.
Promoting recycling and sustainability, the café encourages keep cups, uses no plastic, and even features pre-loved furniture (not all of it comfortable). The beer and wine is organic and preservative free, and I’ve been working my way through the speciality alternative coffees – mushroom latte and beetroot latte being favourites.
There’s also a wellness centre upstairs which offers classes, massage, and natural therapy.
The food servings are generous and everything is prepared fresh on-site. I like the Buddha bowls where you can choose salads and protein to suit from the daily options. I’ll definitely be back regularly to support this great café, and everyone I’ve introduced to it so far has loved it. The only down side is it seems to attracts mums with young children. But if prams and noisy kids are going to bother you, grab some take-away (bringing your own cup and container, of course), sit outside, and people-watch.