The owners of Mount Rainier’s long-standing Sweet & Natural bakery and cafe will open a new vegan cafe down the street.

Located below the artists’ lofts at 3311 Rhode Island Avenue, the new Journey to Health Wellness Café and Juice Bar will be a plant-based and gluten-free eatery when it opens sometime in winter 2020.

Owners Sunny and David Wilson told the Hyattsville Wire that the new cafe will hold cooking classes, seminars and various health and wellness promotions. The menu will be based on dishes currently being served in a Journey to Health pop-up they are running currently out of it’s bakery and cafe, Sweet & Natural, at 4009 34th St.

The bakery will remain at its current location though they’ve shifted the menu to be roughly 95 percent soy- and gluten-free with items such as Grab Cakes, made with a mix of seaweed and sprouted beans.

Sunny Wilson, a nutritionist and health coach, said the restaurant was a good extension of the existing business, which attracts customers from as far away as Baltimore and McLean, Va.

“People who are health nuts will travel for nourishment,” she told the Hyattsville Wire.

The new cafe will have 52 seats. All fruits and vegetables will be seasonal and sourced from nearby farms, and all food will be made from scratch from ingredients such as plant-based cheeses, sprouted beans and Himalayan salt.

Dishes will include a macaroni and cheese made with quinoa noodles and natural plant-based cheese.

Journey to Health will join the upcoming vegan soul food cafe Dodah’s Kitchen and the much-anticipated Pennyroyal Station in the area around the Mount Rainier circle.

Along with its neighbors, the Glut grocery co-op and Waterhole, a juice and smoothies bar, Sweet and Natural has pioneered the organic, healthy eating market in Mount Rainier.

But Sunny Wilson said there was still more demand.

“When people adopt a healthy way of life, they adopt a transition diet,” she said. “But our customers want more than a transition diet, they want deeply nourishing food”