Soo I’ve had the idea of starting a small restaurant on a permaculture farm for a while. Every single ingredient would be grown right on the farm and customers would be able to see and walk around the farm if they want(with supervision, I guess in a short tour?), im thinking it should be a vegan restaurant, it just makes more sense to me. All the food would be organic/pesticide free/herbicide free, This would be the healthiest restaurant in my whole country for sure.
The restaurant wouldn’t be on the middle of the farm but it would be right in the middle of a nice botanical garden. The garden would make the place so much more pretty and attractive, plus this way people can sit down benches placed around the garden and eat while. In my country theres not many 3rd place , I could advertise the place as a free botanical garden with a restaurant on it.
The farm would be right besides the garden but it would be fenced so people dont touch the plants too much or steal them. So yeah these are 3 ideas together, botanical garden/restaurant/farm. I feel like I can advertise the botanical garden and the vegan restaurant separately so its less confusin.
I mean, I agree there’s an attraction about everything coming from your own farm. If you decide to add “locally sourced” animals, just make sure you don’t use it as a crutch or shortcut to creating plant based dishes with depth. IME, if there are animal based dishes on a menu, it seems like the plant based ones become basic. Oh look, a curry lentil basil soup. 🙄 This is because we are so accustomed to centering animal meat in meals we’re not creative with plant based ones. Regardless of which avenue you choose (and it really feel like you made your decision about this business before you posted) I’d highly recommend you spend some time on YouTube looking up some great plant based chefs. You could pop over to r/veganrecipes for channel suggestions. You’ll be blown away by the myriad options that don’t sacrifice taste and complexity even though they’re not using animals in the dishes.
My other two points, which I think are probably more important, stand. I personally wouldn’t do this on an island unless there was a significant tourism industry there AND one in which you could pre-arrange relationships (cruises, hotels, resorts) that would guarantee traffic. Otherwise you’re going to be scrambling to find each individual customer and get them to walk through your doors. You need a relatively guaranteed source of revenue be it cruise excursions or government subsidies or grants from private foundations.
All the best to you