Infinity Foods Kitchen

About

Organic, Vegan and Vegetarian Cafe. Part of the Infinity foods Cooperative Ltd.

Story

Back in 1970, two friends opened a macrobiotic café at the University of Sussex called "Biting Through" which led to a demand for the ingredients they were using in their cooking. The following year, Peter Deadman, Jenny Deadman & Robin Bines opened a small shop in a converted terraced house in Church Street. Here they sold basic vegetarian whole foods and freshly baked products. By 1973, the business had grown rapidly and it moved to its current site in North Road.
Three years later, the company took on an adjoining shop and opened a bakery. The following year there was further expansion: the company again taking on more room at the back of the building with some of the space being used to house and open the Brighton Natural Health Center, now a registered charity.

By the 1990’s people's attitudes towards their health, the environment and issues surrounding food production had changed enormously, with a far greater awareness of the implications of all of our actions. The core principles of sourcing locally grown and produced, organic, non-GM, fair-trade, vegetarian foods became matched in equal part by the increasing demand for these same foods from our customers.

As a result of this, the shop continued to flourish over this decade and in 1998 the Infinity Foods Cafe opened just around the corner from the North Road shop, in Gardner Street. The café has been serving up delicious, wholesome and organic vegetarian cuisine to enthusiastic and hungry Brighton appetites ever since.