Our Partners
Our Suppliers and Partners in Sustainability
Our mantra is: Local, organic, in season. Aphrodite’s takes pride in serving the finest local organic food available in Vancouver. We aim to work directly with local organic micro-farmers to ensure that our menu has the smallest ecological footprint possible. Aphrodite’s makes a conscious decision to purchase its products from companies that share our business philosophy.
Meat Products:
We don’t serve a lot of red meat, but when we do it comes from Two Rivers Specialty Meats because they produce only local, natural and ethical meats (www.tworiversmeats.com). Our nitrate free, happy ham and bacon comes from Gelderman Farms and our sausages come from Oyama on Granville Island (www.oyamasausage.ca). They use only free range, non medicated meat, sometimes organic free-range.
Fish and Seafood:
All of our fish and seafood is local and Ocean Wise certified from Deluxe Seafood Vancouver (www.deluxeseafood.com).
Chicken and Turkey:
Our non-medicated free-run turkey is produced locally and ethically from Rossdown Farm in Abbotsford. Our chicken is also non-medicated and free range from Farmcrest Farms.
Eggs:
Our supplier of certified organic free range eggs is Six Masters Farm in Chilliwackwho (who aslo takes our organic vegetable cuttings back to the farm to feed the chickens and pigs! )
Other dairy (cheese, milk etc.):
Our milk products come from Kennedy’s Milk who distributes Avalon and Valley Pride (all certified organic). Most of our cheeses also come from Kennedy’s too (organic cheddar, parmesan, mozzarella). We have some cheeses that are not organic (brie, some cheddar, feta, goat) (at this point, way too expensive to pass on to the consumer!!!).
Fruits and Vegetables: All of our produce is organic. We try to be as local as possible, but in the winter months we have to get some produce from outside of BC. In the summer we get most of our produce directly from micro-farms such as Glen Valley Organic Farm Co-op, Rootdown Farms, Southlands Farm, Skeeter Farm and UBC Farm. In the winter we use three different organic wholesale companies: Biovia (www.biovia.ca), Discovery Organics (www.discoveryorganics.ca), and Pro Organics.
Our pie fruits and berries are all local and organic, purchased from local micro-farmers.
Coffee:
We use organic, fair trade coffee from Saltspring Coffee (www.saltspringcoffee.com).
Paper Products and Containers: Our paper products are 100% post consumer recycled and our to-go containers and cutlery are compostable. Our cleaning and san’tizing products are 100% environmentally friendly, purchased from Vancouver based Wisent Environmental (www.wisentenviro.com).
