Chantal and Mike are a truly dynamic duo, one with a dream of starting a boutique coffee shop and the other with a zeal for eco-tiny house building. When these unique passions were combined to create Le Bon cafe, a wonderful and rare work of functional art was the result.
We first met Le Bon Cafe at the Tiny House Street Festival in Pink Hill, North Carolina where they were getting a huge amount of attention. At night, their stunningly crafted cafe lights up and becomes an alluring sight. Later we travelled to their hometown of Asheville, NC to find out more about the cafe and it’s construction as well as Mike’s tiny house company, Rolling Roots.
Impressively, the tiny coffee shop was actually created using about 75% recycled materials. The sustainability story of the tiny house is incredibly important to both Chantal and Mike, who are avid environmental activists and who aside from running a cafe and tiny house building company are also behind the Bolivian Amazon Land Trust Alliance. Naturally, all the produce from the cafe is sustainably sourced and organic wherever possible. Le Bon offers discounts on coffee to people who bring their own re-usable cups and the cafe is even towed around using a truck which runs on used vegetable oil.
Although the cafe is based in Asheville, it frequently travels to events outside of the area. One of the major benefits to owning a business on wheels is that it can easily be moved to where the people are and Le Bon can always find itself in the heart of the action. There’s no question that the design of the shop turns some heads wherever it goes.
Inside the tiny house is the workings of a fully functional cafe. The layout is well designed to allow for service on both sides of the cafe and fast efficient workflow inside.
Mike and Chantal are an inspiring couple and together are doing some incredible things in the world, from saving the rain forrest and it’s creatures, to building tiny houses and making sure people have a very good cup of coffee.
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What a clever idea and a creative couple! :)
Certainly such an inspiration is added love to the many splendors of coffee drinking. Thanks for your visit and comment. Wishing you a wonderful week ahead!☕👍
Oh, my gosh…this is absolutely enchanting…I’ve never seen the like…it’s like something from a story book! I continue to love your unique blog…thanks for sharing :)
Do glad you enjoyed. My imagination just goes upstream with this innovative delight!
How wonderful! Thank you for sharing! I think i have to change my location, seeing much better things like here. 😉
Have a great week. 😉 Michael
Thank you for responding! You have a great week as well!
Allow me to give something back, its Halloween! LOL
This
https://ibb.co/gbg736 is a true new inventory of our village, established with a lot of EU funds. Here is the advertising for it: https://ibb.co/k9mtAm
Its not a joke, its real. ;-(
Nice!!!😰 Trickn Treets…Hahaha! Thanks for the back at you shares!!!!
Thank you for sharing this inspiring and remarkable story.
You are so welcome! Thrilling to know you enjoyed!😎
The best of both worlds, a tiny house and endless coffee!
hahaha! Don’t know how much coffee can be stored in a tiny house.. Hmm- endless coffee sounds like a theme for a good story. LOL!
How amazing! I just watched the sequel to an Inconvenient Truth and reading this makes me so grateful for people like this couple who are making positive impacts on our planet. What a beautiful traveling coffee shop!!! 💕😊🌏
Thank you so much for your time to read and comment on this share, inspiringherbalist. Glad you enjoyed!
You’re very welcome!! 😊
Love this..I enjoyed
Thank you so much for stopping in! It’s nice to know that you enjoyed!
Wow, very cool. Mike and Chantel truly are an inspiration.
Indeed!
good coffee
It is! Thank you be.
This is a great idea – :)
Thanks kindly Prior!💕❤️
wishing you and yours a great year and eager to follow along with the coffee and the music at AOC this year
Ditto Harley! Bikes and coffee are a team follow! Cheers for our New Year!!
Such an inspiring story! I wish them all the best and will raise my cup of coffee to them any day! Thank you so much for sharing!
I agree. Thank you for your visit and comment parkermccoy. Cheers to the raisings of coffee cups, and to a wonderful New Year!☕️😎☕️
Love the story and pictures!! Hope all is well with you….thanks for sharing!
Thank you and happy Thursday Kirt! It is cold, snowing and raining all over. Stay warm and virus free!
Spent last weekend in Seattle, back in LA and I think we brought the rain down with us….but I love the rain!! (Snow brings to many memories of shoveling long driveway the years we lived in Denver) :)
I used to be seasonal preferring Summer over others. Then began to love Spring, next I loved Autumn but now I have no loving preference for any of them. Winter is definitely not my cup of coffee, although coffee during the Winter is so comforting. Cheers!💕☕️☕️
My! The idea, the fuel, the own-reusable cup discount.. I love everything about it! >-I
Thank you for your visit and for your reflection on this amazing environmentally conscious innovation! Cheers to your day and a great cup of coffee!💕☕️
Wow! My mind is blown, my coffee friend. Le Bon Cafe is amazing, and I love that they have a vegetable oil run truck. Love, love this post!!! 💋
Thank you for stopping by and reading Yes…They are soOO environmentally conscious and innovative! Green Beer Cheers dear friend!🍺🍀💚🌈
Cheers, baby!🍻
Adorable. Looks like a “Hobbit” 🍀 Coffee shop! ❤️
Many thanks! I want my own, customized for parks, mountains and beaches. ☕️☕️😊👍
So cute, and such a great idea! Sher
A big thank you, Roadtirement for visiting, liking and following AmericaOnCoffee.Best loving regards! ☕️☕️☕️☕️🎶
I love it! Little Hobbit Houses!
Thank you Roth fo visiting and commenting. They are a charm.❤️👍
You are welcome!
What great ideas. I hadn’t considered tiny houses for tiny workplaces.
A what fascinating couple to come up with this ingenious idea! … Life is big in so many loving, small and giving ways…❤️
I LOVE that it was created using recycled materials. Wishing them all the best with this idea!!
Ingenious! I cannot understand why this couple decided to go with the land investments in Brazil! 🤔 Oh well!💕☕️☕️
I can’t imagine what the world would be like without a cup of coffee in the morning. Thanks for sharing all these wonderful pictures :)
You are welcome Debby! Best wishes for a great weekend!❤️
Charming. I have a friend in Asheville. Will have to see if she has been to this.
What a comfort find! Hope that your friend visits soon. I understand that many of the little coffee house here will be set up in Brazil and who knows where else. I suppose it is the venturesome mind of globalization🤔
Terribly cute!
And a perfect place for me with a few friends when the Coronavirus ends, How are you? Hope you are keeping well and safe., dear friend!💕☕️☕️
That sounds like a plan! Thank you. We’re not stir crazy just yet and Berlin seems to be the only place in Germany where rules are a bit less strict. We’re allowed to sit in parks for example (which is really the only thing to do cause everything else is closed … ) Are you holding up well?
Glad that you asked bekitschig. A lot of my colleagues feel pretty challenged by the world’s upset, but prayer an encouragement is the blood that run through our veins. It’s wonderful to know how Germany is holding up. I am wondering if 2020 will be consumed by COVID-19?
Yeah, that’s probably it for 2020. Not to be pessimistic, many of us won’t work till god knows when and there’s the second wave and corona babies … we’ll be dealing with this for a long, long time.
Russia’s nuclear disaster in 1986, was less of a mess than the present COVID-19.🤔.
With the fires, we’ll see about Tschernobyl soon. It kinda started with the fires in South America and Australia, Brexit, Mexit … it just DOES NOT STOP and that orange man will not help the normal people. If this was a movie it might be worth watching, this is kinda not
You are right. 😞
I love this over and over again.💦
Thank you! Get comfortable and keep exploring.
Covey!💦
For you that sounds about right!
You humans are cove fanatics!💦
Fanatics.. just fanatics!
You’ve said it.💦
What do you call your tic-obsessions?
After all, the air has lunatics. What kind of fanatics are there underwater?
Simply antics. Every seafaring creature is streaming on tricky ideas.💦🐬
Out of the ordinary!
Love the idea behind businesses on wheels! Especially libraries on wheels. Talk about a way to make reading even more accessible around the world! :D Thanks for sharing!
You sre well Lashaan. All of the new concepts are ideal. Have an enjoyable and explorative new week.
This is great!!
Indeed! A coffee haven, I would say. ☕️☕️❤️
Great idea!
BTW, what is your favorite type of coffee maker, or do you love them all?
I operate in three maker modes, hurried, moderate and relaxed. I’m weird with coffee prep crossed effects. Ha ha! In my hurried mode I use a Keurig. In my moderate mode I do a Pourover, and an espresso machine when I am relaxed. ☕️☕️What is your favorite coffeemaker?
Mist of my morning coffee is made in the French press. I have an espresso maker for when I need it, and after dinner, especially with company, and sometimes to make an iced cappuccino in the afternoon. I also have my mother’s old but beautifully functional vacuum pot I pull out every now and then.
You are very coffee poised. I actually appreciate the old-fashioned percolator. Coffee making has become too fancy! 🤣
I grew up with the sound of mom’s percolator bubbling in the background in the morning and filling the house with delicious aroma. I don’t know what happened to it, but it sure made good coffee!
Modern coffee vs old fashioned. We changed coffee and coffee changed us and our world. 🤔Maybe one day they will have a comeback.
Just unbelievable!
Thank you! Comfort zone should be dreamy.🫠🌙 Thanks again! Happy Saturday!