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Andrew's Healthy Foods
Also known as: Andrew's Healthy Eating, Andrews Project, Andrew's Healthy Food
Bayonne, NJ café and restaurant founded August 20, 2009 by chef Vasantha M. Perera — gluten-free, vegan, non-GMO, and organic cuisine, with a clean-sourced omnivore menu that also includes grass-fed steaks and wild-caught fish. Features an outdoor tranquility garden, a Sunday brunch, and a juice/smoothie program. Recognized as Best Healthy Food Restaurant on the East Coast 2024.
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Andrew’s Healthy Foods is a café and full-service restaurant on Broadway in Bayonne, founded August 20, 2009 by chef-owner Vasantha M. Perera (originally operating as “Andrews Project”). The menu commits to [[gluten-free|gluten-free]], non-GMO, and organic preparation across categories — fresh juices and smoothies, international vegan and vegetarian dishes, and a clean-sourced omnivore line including [[grass-fed|grass-fed]] steaks and wild-caught fish. The premises include an outdoor tranquility garden used for seasonal dining and private events; the kitchen also operates pickup, online ordering, and an all-you-can-eat Sunday brunch.
Why it’s listed
Chef-owner-driven operations that hold organic and non-GMO sourcing across an entire menu — vegan and omnivore — are unusual. Most “healthy food” restaurants compromise on one axis: they go strictly vegan but accept conventional produce, or they keep an omnivore menu but treat sourcing as optional. Andrew’s has held the wider standard for fifteen-plus years from a single Bayonne storefront. Chef Perera was named Marquis Who’s Who Top Executive of the Year 2022, and the restaurant was recognized as Best Healthy Food Restaurant on the East Coast in 2024.
Bioregional fit
Bayonne sits on Bergen Neck in Hudson County, NJ — across the Kill Van Kull from [[staten-island]], the same [[new-york-harbor-estuary|NY harbor estuary]] system. The directory groups it with the Staten Island bioregion for now; a future broader new-york-harbor bioregion would be a cleaner fit when more inner-harbor NJ listings accrue.
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Sources
- Andrew’s Healthy Foods website
- Yelp listing — Andrew’s Healthy Foods, 342 Broadway, Bayonne
- OpenStreetMap:
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Related concepts: [[organic-agriculture]] · [[vegan]] · [[gluten-free]] · [[juice-bar]].
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