Surprise!  Tanya’s is back and it’s eeeeeven better than before! ...If I may say so myself :) But honestly I do really think it's better than before, otherwise I would've never gone for such a drastic change. Keep reading to learn what's new. You might remember that almost three years earlier, in July 2014, I opened Tanya’s Cafe inside My Chelsea with pop-ups soon to follow at a Fitness Centre and in Selfridges. The cafe was hailed one of the top raw food restaurants in Europe and has seen clientele such as the Rolling Stones, Fearne Cotton, Millie Mackintosh, Lorraine Pascale, Julie Montagu and more! Operating from a single tiny kitchen in Chelsea, we had to turn down numerous opportunities to stock my famous guilt-free Cheezecakes, organic Living Lasagnas and Superfood drinks anywhere else. We decided to change that and closed the restaurant in November of last year for a big and super exciting remodel! [caption id="attachment_2493" align="aligncenter" width="1022"] source @kajaand on IG[/caption]   On 19th June 2017, Tanya’s opened its doors once again, but in a very new way!    Here's what's different: -We're now open from 7am till 11pm with the full menu restocked into the store’s fridges each morning. -Pop in on your way to work to pick up an Adventure Salad Bowl without the wait. -Our partnership with My Chelsea means that the beautiful newly refurbished The Living Room is now available to all of Tanya’s customers and My Chelsea guests, so if you’re after a Medicinal Mushroom Latte with coconut milk and your colleague needs her traditional Cappuccino (or vice versa), there’s no more need to dine in separate restaurants. -We made it easily accessible for you to pop in and either Grab’n’Go or Grab’n’DineIn. We've even installed our very own door from street level! -It’s very relaxed and there are now power points all throughout, so bring your laptop and work away in a green living environment. -Tanya’s partnership with Deliveroo and Quiqup means that you can get anything delivered throughout London! -My famous whole cakes are now available to purchase and collect in-store without preorder. Soon they will be available for online order also to be delivered across London.   Expect to see Tanya’s best-sellers at various London’s shops soon, but for now- come and be among the first to experience the brand-new Tanya’s and The Living Room. Aaaand for 7 days starting tonight (Monday 3rd July), you can get 2 meals for the price of 1 when Dining In or Taking Out (excludes delivery, cheapest free)!  Choose from Living Lasagna, Thai Curry Kelp Noodles, Adventure Bowls, a bunch of Salad Sides or Dipping Pots are all part of the deal!  

Some love notes and kudos

“Raw like you’ve never seen it before” -Vogue.co.uk "Everything at Tanya's is hand-picked, organically grown, ethically sourced and not to mention raw living and gluten free. So you can appease your inner eco-warrior while befitting your body with beautifying edibles." -FOUR magazine “London’s best healthy puddings” -Evening Standard “This beautiful (and supremely delicious) raw food restaurant is not to be missed” -Hip&Healthy “Detox, raw food expert and wellness coach opened up Tanya’s Cafe in Chelsea and it’s already become popular with food blogging superstars such as Deliciously Ella” -Stylist Magazine “Her recipes are accessible, even seductive” -The Daily Telegraph “Cafe owner Tanya knows her stuff, and proves it’s still possible to have a social life living raw” -Grazia  

About Tanya

Tanya Maher is a leading wellness coach and blogger with a dedicated following. She specialises in irresistible ultra-nutritious and energising plant-based meals for the whole family. Having intuitively turned to raw food to heal from horrific injuries she sustained in a near fatal car crash as a teen, Tanya went on to train at the Institute for Integrative Nutrition to offer her clients in-depth health advice alongside practical knowledge on how to create delicious living food. Tanya is the author of ‘The Uncook Book- The Essential Guide to a Raw Food Lifestyle’, creator of Amazon #1 best-selling DVD ‘Raw Food 101- Your First Steps to the Healthiest Lifestyle Ever’ and co-founder of Tanya’s, her very own celebrity hang-out inside My Chelsea, serving unprocessed organic meals and indulgent guilt-free cheezecakes.     For more information on Tanya’s or to request high res images: info@tanyascafe.com www.tanyasliving.com  www.tanyascafe.com  www.betterraw.com   P.S. I promise I haven't forgotten to post the new 'What I feed my toddler in a day" video. Look out for that next! P.P.S. To celebrate the opening, I'll be running a very cool daily Giveaway worth lots and lots. Follow us on Facebook here>>, Instagram here>> or Twitter here>> to be the first to hear the news!

[caption id="attachment_2342" align="aligncenter" width="860"] Our Selfridges pop-up store, when I was heavily pregnant[/caption]   My famous cleanse is back! This is really really exciting news, if not for you then for me. Ha! :) We missed January this year because of all the reno's, which means I didn't do my usual detox either. That's definitely not the case for June! I'm all in, starting 13th June and inviting you to come along for the ride...   It's a done for you 1, 2 or 3 day cleanse, which is delivered to your door within the UK, and available for 3 weeks only.   [SO SORRY to my overseas friends that it's too hard to keep the cold-pressed products fresh during transit, but if you wanted to do the detox yourself at home, then check out my blog post where I pretty much reveal exactly what to do, at what time and with what ingredients, here>>]   I believe in the power of giving your insides a proper scrub and I know that simply drinking juice may flow through your body undigested. This means you won’t get all, if any, of the nutrients and minerals from it and be left feeling hungry and deprived. You need a carefully constructed detox plan with nourishing solid foods to support your whole body. Book yours now>>   I also believe that my Alkaline Cleanse is not just a cleanse, it is the ultimate body rebalancing system! Why? For starters, the full day's menu is not just about giving you lots of detox promoting ingredients to get your bowels moving. I carefully put every ingredients together from juices to sprouted seeds to probiotics, making sure that you get everything your body requires to thrive. Take a look... - Fibre to clean out your intestines - Probiotics to reduce bloating - Calcium to nourish you - Protein to re-build your system - Essential fats for ultimate digestion - Detoxifying spices to accelerate cleansing - Chlorophyll to increase your body’s pH level   My organic cold-pressed juices are the star warrior of your cleanse, but don't forget there is the alkalising raw soup, detox dust coated seeds, fibre wheatgrass crackers, veggie sticks and lemon tahini dip, OptiBac probiotics as well as the Neal’s Yard Remedies green complex powder. This cleanse is designed to clean and nourish at the same time. I even include pH strips to test how acid or alkaline you are, before, during and after the cleanse. And no matter which cleanse you go for- 1, 2 or 3 days- I will include a free cooler bag! Book yours now>>   Did you know: 1.‘Disease cannot develop, live or survive in an alkaline environment.  Every ache, itch and pain is telling you that your body is too acid’ 2. All ingredients we use are organic, raw, unprocessed, unpasteurized and cold-pressed.  We do not use sweeteners, gluten or nuts for this cleanse.  We do sprout and slowly dry alkalizing seeds below 47 degrees to release the enzyme inhibitors, but preserve nutrition and aid digestion. 3. The website www.tanyasliving.com where you can purchase your cleanse is the place where all activity will happen shortly after we reopen Tanya's cafe on 19th June. We're bringing together the best of www.betterraw.com and www.tanyascafe.com to pack out our new website with awesome info, 100's of raw food recipes and details on how you can work with me.

Today is all about yummy healthy foods for kids! I've had so so many requests to share what I feed Lake ever since she came along nearly 16 months ago, that I've had the brilliant idea of filming a whole day's worth of her food intake. So 'brilliant', that it took me an entire week to film it and then another week to paste it all together. (Mums and dads - I know you hear me!) But I did it and if you're into it, then prepare to see a monthly edition :) In this one short video, I cover everything from making seed milks from scratch to using supplements to three ingredient purees and raw porridges, as well as share my tips on how I keep her teeth clean of dehydrated fruits (it's not with a toothbrush). Enjoy watching and please let me know what you think! Happy Friday! P.S. There is already a post packed with three ingredient weaning recipes, here: http://betterraw.com/2016/08/healthy-baby-weaning-recipes-3-ingredients-less.html P.P.S. The Alkaline Cleanse returns in June! Check your inbox for all the details next week. Here's how to subscribe if you aren't already receiving my updates>>

We have a logo! Well, we already had a logo, but as you've read here in the previous post, we were after a refreshed look to match our awesome refreshed biz. From almost 1,000 comments across social media and this site, here's what's clear: -You are a passionate bunch -I am very lucky to have you as my support system -You are loyal to Tanya's brand -You are truly amazing and I love love love you! Thank you so much. I read every single comment and even made spreadsheets against the four presented options to include all of your thoughts and suggestions. Drummm rolllllll...... Here is the result!   As you can see, it's not too dissimilar to our original design, only I have grown up and this logo evolution represents my own journey perfectly :) The changes: -We brightened up the signature fuchsia colour, because you love the vibrancy of our brand. -We kept the 'tanya's' typeface, because you were very loyal to it (and I love it!). -We brought the letters of the typeface closer together, because you felt 'delicious, energising, living food' deserves to pop more on supermarket shelves. -We went for the gradient petals, because they feel 'warm, nurturing, angelic, inspiring and elegant' to you and to me too. -We pumped up the size of the flower to balance against the bolder 'tanya's' typeface. -We changed the tagline to 'Feed your soul', which truly represents what real, organic, wholesome, living food is capable of. This feels most true to my own nature too, because as a Russian, I loooooove to 'feed' and as a raw food coach, I get to witness how living food heals and nourishes the body, fuels with energy, enriches lives and makes you (and your soul) stupidly happy. -The complete logo remains in a circle, because you love the 'holistic' look and it gives us the freedom to use all that vibrant fruity photography as a backdrop (which you also love)! The changes side by side:     What do you think? Let me know in the comments below. Again, thank you so so much for sharing your thoughts on the previous post. I honestly appreciate it beyond words. Happy Thursday!   P.S. The Alkaline Cleanse returns in June! Check your inbox for all the details next week. Here's how to subscribe if you aren't already receiving my updates>>

My friend, I'd loooove your trusty opinion! 🙋 You already know we are remodelling, but you may not know we are rebranding simultaneously too... My beloved raw food restaurant in Chelsea, London will focus on a retail offering, my workshops and nutritional mentoring for new'ish mums. My plant-based cakes, juices, salads, coconut jerky, etc are going to be stocked all across London shops, cafes and fitness centres, so naturally we felt the need to update our current logo (pic 1) to reflect the warm, nourishing, energising, positive and loving natural brand that we've been nurturing for years. Please could you share in the comments below which one of the pics (2, 3 or 4) sings to you and why. Thank you so so so much, I value your thoughts more than anything!   P.S. A little more about our brief for the rebrand is below...

  I'm coming to you, because this exercise is 'a bit too close to home for me' and since I've witnessed the evolution process with a hundred examples by now, I'm hoping that you can help me make a decision! About current logo: My dear friend in NZ designed it and I love it that someone who knows me well is behind this interpretation of my living food. (It's a flower of life with a seed, that stems from the middle, plus this very seed is used as the apostrophe in 'tanya's'.) She had no brief and no time to pull something together when we were opening the cafe, and I have enjoyed this stamp for almost three years now. It is time to ditch the 'Experience Raw' tagline, because although my food is plant-based, it is not exclusively raw. Also as we are testing out our packaging for different stores, everyone agrees that the current intricate logo design gets lost on shelves. About the new business model: Tanya's is no longer just going to be a restaurant. In fact, there will be no restaurant. MY Chelsea hotel will be an outlet for our products, as will the likes of Planet Organic, Whole Foods, etc. The products like your favourite PB Choc Cheezecake, Matcha Mylkshake, Coconut Jerky and Raw Lasagna will be made off-site and delivered daily to our various stockists, then anyone who visits our star location in Chelsea, will be able to grab their treats and either take them away or pick a seat in the beautiful remodelled hotel lounge, which was the original Tanya's conservatory and terrace. (Think PRET A MANGER, just more fancy, more exclusive, healthier and fully organic.) BetterRaw.com and TanyasCafe.com will also be consolidated into one website, which will offer whole cakes to order, mentoring packages, my books, cleanses and more raw food classes. The brief for new logo: A strong and proud mark that would distinguish my products from the competitors, yet still have the feminine touch of beauty and elegance. It was also important to me that it feels positive, exciting, energetic and friendly. I personally have a unique multi-cultural upbringing, since I was born in Russia, grew up in New Zealand with my Russian parents and sister, got a Kiwi accent, married a Kiwi and now along our our baby girl we are both British citizens, enjoying life in glorious London. I was named after my grandma Tanya, who was an amazing cook (all women in my family were/are), so really this brand is named after my grandma (just cooler hopefully, more luxury most certainly and although still hearty- way waaay healthier), so it has to feeeel authentic and established too. I don't ask for much, do I? :))