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Our story

Vegetables with a return address.

Bowl & Branch started with a simple annoyance: 'fresh' that couldn't name a farm. So we built a lunch spot that could — eleven farms, one chalkboard, five branches.

Farmer carrying a wooden crate of lettuce, tomatoes, cucumbers, and peppers through a field at golden hour

It started with a chalkboard.

In 2019, our founders — a line cook and a produce buyer — opened a twelve-seat counter in the Glebe with one rule: if we can't say which farm grew it, it doesn't go in the bowl. The morning deliveries went up on a chalkboard, farm names and all.

Seven years later there are five branches and the chalkboards are bigger, but the rule hasn't moved. Eleven partner farms within 150 km grow most of the line; the rest — avocados, rice, sesame — we buy from importers we visit ourselves.

Five branches in seven years

  1. 2019

    One counter in the Glebe, four bases, a chalkboard, and a promise: name every farm.

  2. 2021

    ByWard Market opens. The sesame-ginger sauce recipe is finalized after 23 test batches.

  3. 2022

    Westboro opens with our first pickup shelf — order-ahead becomes half of all lunches within a year.

  4. 2024

    Kanata opens. We hit eleven partner farms and take the topping line fully compostable.

  5. 2026

    Orléans opens — branch five. The east end asked loudly, and we listened.

The people on the chalkboard.

A few of the eleven farms behind the line. Every team member visits one each season — it's hard to waste a carrot after you've weeded its row.

  • Meadowlark Organics

    North Gower, ON

    Kale, romaine, spinach

  • Two Rivers Roots

    Wakefield, QC

    Carrots, beets, cucumbers

  • Brightside Acres

    Carp, ON

    Sweet corn, squash, brussels sprouts

  • St-Albert Co-op

    St-Albert, ON

    Feta and yogurt

Close-up of hands gripping a wooden crate loaded with corn, broccoli, radishes, carrots, and leafy greens fresh from the field

Leave it better

  • 100%

    Compostable packaging

    Bowls, lids, cutlery, napkins — everything on the counter composts.

  • 11

    Partner farms within 150 km

    Most of the topping line travels less than two hours to reach you.

  • 0

    Bowls wasted nightly

    Unsold bowls go out with a food-runner partner every close, every branch.

Taste the difference a name makes.

Build your bowl now and it'll be waiting on the pickup shelf — name on the lid, no line.

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