By Deva Gaura Hari dasa
Krishnabhavana dasi and myself have been operating our ‘Dosa Heaven’ market stall on the Gold Coast and Tweed for almost three years. This is our full-time business because we both love to cook and serve prasadam.
Since we began, patrons have been asking if we had a permanent restaurant, so the idea has been in the back of our minds for some time. Moving into a permanent location seemed the next logical step for us as a family, so in 2017 when a local café space was up for rent, we started trying more seriously to establish a restaurant.
Just out of curiosity, we contacted Sunnyside Mall to see what the rents were like on those shops. We found the shopping centre to be very helpful and open to the idea of having a vegetarian restaurant there.
During this period we talked to many devotees and other locals about the venture and overall the response was very positive. We felt encouraged to go ahead and try to establish this restaurant for the pleasure of Krishna and the devotees.
We will expand our menu from just cooking dosas to include other items like pies, salads, pizza, sweets, burgers, nachos and hot chips. We will also include an Asian menu, with preparations such as laksa, fried rice, Singapore noodles, satay sticks and so on.
Our new restaurant will be called ‘Lucid Pure Vegetarian’. It will be located downstairs in the Sunnyside Mall (Coles shopping centre), next to the existing café.
We look forward to be able to serve the devotee community when we open for business in mid-March.