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Andrew Kay finds tasty food that’s healthy too at Love Fit Café
OK, I know, no-one is going to believe me when I say I went out looking for healthy food. And if I am honest I was apprehensive, as over the years I have been served some pretty dismal stuff under the banner of ‘healthy’.
Love Fit Café is right at the heart of the Lanes and the heart theme carries through with their logo and also their concern for healthy food. People use the phrase ‘eat your heart out’ and some of us are doing that – quite literally – with an unbalanced diet and too many saturated fats.
Cutting down is one option, but all too often that can mean cutting down on flavour. That was not going to work for business partners Steve and Jason of Love Fit Café. Keen fitness fans and body builders, they both knew that they wanted healthy food that was also tasty and satisfying. Cutting down on the wrong kind of fats, refined sugars and salt was obvious, but their challenge was to make it tasty.
Their menu does exactly that, and most of it is prepared fresh in their own kitchens daily. I ate a very good chicken caesar salad that was tasty and filling. I then, of course, ruined it by eating a slice of one of the best cakes I have tasted in some time – or had I? Apparently not. Made in their own kitchen, it was about as healthy as a cake can get; I didn’t care – it tasted great.
Around me people were tucking into great looking freshly prepared paninis, a heart chilli and baked potatoes. I couldn’t resist a berry smoothie which was scarily purple but also very light. And now that the sun has come out they are making fresh frozen yoghurt each day with a variety of toppings.
For serious body builders they also offer power smoothies using healthy supplements. For me I would be happy with a salad and a berry smoothie here any day, and a damn good coffee too.
Their passion for fitness and food shows at every level and there is no worthy ‘health’ food preaching either. It’s simply a bright modern café in the centre of town, open seven days a week with sunny outdoor and indoor seating and an affordable menu of dishes to eat in or take away that will neither break your bank or break your heart. Now, where did I hide that slice of banana cake?
Love Fit Café 14 Brighton Square, Brighton, BN1 1HD, 01273 777941
