By Green Options Buffalo:
In our series, 30 Days of Bicycle Benefits, you will be introduced to 30 new businesses that will offer you great discounts for riding your bike and wearing your helmet. Thirty businesses that want to say, “Thank you,” for choosing not to drive your car.
Sweet_Ness 7 Cafe – Free Refills on Coffee
For Mother’s Day we are paying homage to Prish Moran, owner and proprietor of Sweet_Ness 7 Café. It takes guts to open a business no matter where you put it, but when Prish opened up Sweet_Ness 7 on the corner of Grant and Lafayette most people didn’t call it guts. They called it crazy. And while it’s true that it may have been just a little crazy, most brilliant ideas are. In the two years since Sweet_Ness 7 has opened, the once-desolate section of Grant St. has been undergoing a renaissance.
A café is made by the atmosphere it promotes. Sweet_Ness 7 manages to mix beautifully re-purposed furniture along with a minimalist street scene playfully splashed on the south wall to give the café an easy, calm feel. At the same time the high, tin ceilings and dark, fine wood work offer the atmosphere of unique to Sweet_Ness 7 and unparalleled in the city. In the center of it all is my favorite feature: a massive kneading table recovered from a bakery that used to operate in the space. This enormous centerpiece is the kind of table around which people can congregate and ideas discussed with someone whom you may have just met.
Even more could be written about Prish’s second location at 301 Parkside Ave, just across from the Buffalo Zoo, with its equally unique atmosphere, exotic and delicious menu and community vibe (there’s even a “rainy day” fund that gets used to help people in the neighborhood) – but why are you still reading? There’s coffee to drink and debates to be had!
Ride your bike on over, make friends and and grab some great coffee and great food. If you roll in with your Bicycle Benefits-adorned helmet, you’ll get free refills on your coffee.
Sweet_ness 7 Café (Two Locations):
220 Grant St.
Buffalo NY 14213
716-883-1738
M-Sat 7am – 6pm
Sun 7am-3:00pm
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Sweet_ness 7 Café – Learn more about beer and wine sales at this location
301 Parkside Ave
Buffalo, NY 14214
716-834-1954
Daily 7am-6pm
Want to take advantage of Bicycle Benefits? Here’s how:
1. Buy a sticker. Join Bicycle Benefits and get your sticker… or buy one from ANY NEW participating business for $5.00. Don’t forget that stickers are FREE with a GO-Buffalo membership.
2. Put the sticker on your helmet.
3. Ride your bike to a participating business, wearing your helmet and GET GREAT DISCOUNTS!
I RIDE!
Come visit GO-Buffalo Today May 8th at Sweet_Ness 7 Cafe (220 Grant Street) from 11:30am – 1:30pm and tell us why you ride your bicycle. Look for us on the street to provide air in your tires and a free diagnostic on your bicycle to get it ready for the season. Just for riding your bicycle you will be entered into a raffle to receive a FREE ticket to Project XI – Flying Bison Brewery’s 11th Anniversary Party!
During these events you can sign-up for a membership to take advantage of Bicycle Benefits and you can also be entered into a raffle for a gift certificate to receive a free bicycle from our community workshop.