LUHV is bringing vegan food, including dinners to go, to a South Philadelphia corner. Owner Silvia Lucci calls the approach “a mix of Panera and Wawa.”
“We wanted to bring healthy food to a city neighborhood,” said Silvia Lucci, LUHV’s matriarch.
What’s different at the new Point Breeze location is its market-like approach. Besides the counter, there’s a fridge with packaged foods, such as one-pound containers of LUHV’s chick’n salad and kale-lentil potato salad and such vegan deli-style “meats” as ham, capicola, corned beef, and bacon. It’s sort of the corner deli approach. “We thought that you maybe might want to just buy the bacon and make a sandwich on your own bread,” Lucci said.
LUHV frozen products such as the 8-ounce “meat” packs, which are sold in larger grocery stores such as Mom’s Organic Market and Whole Foods, are there, too.The takeout packaging is fully recyclable; LUHV is a partner with rePurpose Global, an organization that champions ethical waste management. Unlike most similar eateries, LUHV serves food for dine-in service on washable plates.
After Silvia Lucci suffered a stroke in 2012, her husband the chef set out to make vegan foods to aid in her recovery. Among David Lucci’s dishes was “energy soup,” combining kale, quinoa, beans, seaweed, and flax seed.The family pivoted away from those restaurants and opened LUHV in a Hatboro storefront in 2016. LUHV started producing frozen foods — in particular the energy soup as well as a vegan burger made of black beans, plantain, and roasted poblano — onsite.
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