Services and products

Restaurants and juice bars

The Crudessence restaurants and juice bars are the keystone of our offering: from our daily menus, desserts, smoothies and now organic and dynamic wines, we offer a wide variety of healthy food choices. Relax in warm and friendly ambiences, order food from smiling faces for take out or for delivery to your office or home. Our passion for sharing motivates us to grow and set up shop at more locations in the Montreal area and beyond! Do not be surprised if you notice one of our restaurants or juice bars opening up in your area within a few years!

Catering service

Whatever your event, our catering service is there. With or without service, in “bite-sized” formats or buffet style, with a dessert table or a chocolate and smoothie bar. Our team has imagination and a plethora of choices for you. With more than 300 recipes, we also travel to festivals, environmental fairs and corporate events. In addition, the Crudessence loft situated in the Mile-End is well located for hosting anything from intimate events to large parties of up to 100 people.

Specialist boutique

For those of you who would like to integrate living foods at home, we offer a wide selection of nuts and bulk foods, specialist products, books, and kitchen equipment. You can even get the beautiful eco-friendly Crudessence apparel and accessories! This boutique is not only available in our restaurants, juice bars and at the academy but also online!

Packaged foods

A range of snacks and desserts made in our central kitchen are now available for sale in health foods stores across Quebec: granolas, a line of sprouted and dehydrated nuts, our famous energy balls, as well as our cakes cut into individual portions. You are never far from some living foods.

Kombucha brewery

We are the largest producers of Kombucha tea in Canada. This thirst-quenching drink, full of enzymes and probiotics, is the only live, organic and fair trade drink on the market in Quebec. It is brewed entirely by hand at our Montreal premises.

Academy of Living Foods

The educational portion of our mandate is at the centre of our concerns at Crudessence. As such the Academy is a place where knowledge of living foods is shared and where students can learn to adapt this way of preparing food to their daily lives. Every week, we offer both practical and theoretical courses centred around the one-day intensive “Living Foods” course. We offer intensive courses on specific subjects such as: Living Food Nutrition for Optimal Performance, Living Desserts, Kombucha and Fermentation, Sprouting and Germination, Herbalism, and The Science of Nutrition courses.

Courses are now offered outside of the Montreal area, and we are starting to give introductory courses to children in Montreal schools.

Events

Even with such a full schedule, Crudessence also takes the time to get involved in community events, in local cooking contests to raise funds, offering conferences in hospitals, organizing mentoring groups for young green entrepreneurs, and that is only the beginning!