At Sol Sips, Eater Young Gun Francesca Chaney (’19) wants to change who gets to be a part of the wellness conversation
and processed foods. But despite the large numbers of poorer, darker people of the world engaging in vegetarian recipes for millennia, the narrative around the health benefits of plant-based diets has been driven by white people of the West. “Before we opened, my personal goal was to make sure we had room at the table for everyone,” she tells Eater.
Many Sol Sips customers come to the tiny Bushwick restaurant precisely because they appreciate what Chaney is doing for her community. “I feel like especially in the city, there is a range of incomes, and a range where not everybody can go for a $15 and $20 brunch every Sunday,” said Christa Pratt, one of Chaney’s early supporters, while waiting for her meal during sliding-scale brunch. “But you know, everybody deserves to wind down every now and then.
Bushwick has been rapidly gentrifying for the last 10 years. For Bushwick natives like Sol Sips customer Tammy Martinez, dining options were limited to cheaper fast food or overpriced white-owned restaurants and cafes. She says Sol Sips was a welcome addition to the neighborhood. “I was surprised to see someone so young and, you know, and my type of people... making it happen out here,” she said during brunch.
Much of Sol Sips’s popularity, however, hasn’t come from traditional word of mouth, but instead from the platform Chaney has created on social media, along with the attention she’s received from. Disrupting the white-and-thin trope of veganism is just as important to many of her followers as it is to her. “I was really intrigued and happy to see a business like this open up. Especially in a gentrified area such as Bushwick,” said Lim, who read about Chaney online before going to Sol Sips.
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