BOARDMAN, Ohio (WKBN) – A brand new restaurant on the Southern Park Mall is bringing consciousness to a number of vital subjects: maintaining a healthy diet and the deaf/laborious of listening to neighborhood.
Tiffany Hamilton is 50 p.c deaf in each ears. She mentioned that is what impressed the title of her vegan restaurant, Contemporary to Deaf.
“It was very, crucial for me to deliver the notice to the deaf, HOH neighborhood. We’re functioning,” she mentioned.
She additionally needed to create an area the place individuals might purchase wholesome meals at an inexpensive worth.
“I used to be capable of combine herbs and various things which are holistic and that assist, you realize, individuals right here within the metropolis. In order that’s a giant a part of my menu, these holistic issues that assist you to. With the contemporary meals and contemporary greens and the herbs and the earth water, the ocean moss water, the precise sea moss, issues like that,” Hamilton mentioned.
One in every of her hottest gadgets is the ocean moss water. She says she makes positive it’s contemporary, clear and wholesome.
“Plenty of occasions, individuals don’t have entry to it and you need to order it on-line, and on a regular basis it’s not actual — I truly had an incident the place I received some pretend sea moss, in order that’s why I show my sea moss. I let my prospects odor it, I allow them to contact it in order that they know they’re getting the true deal,” she mentioned.
Hamilton additionally provides again by providing free meals to anybody who’s hungry and may’t afford to purchase one thing to eat.
“I feel, for my part, that if each restaurant within the metropolis did it, that there needs to be no person hungry within the metropolis of Youngstown,” she mentioned.
Hamilton moved to the Southern Park Mall in October of final 12 months. Previous to that, she was situated in downtown Youngstown. As soon as the pandemic affected her buyer site visitors downtown, she felt it could be higher to maneuver to a different location.
However she’s joyful to nonetheless be serving the world.
“I’ve my very own clientele however then I get the foot site visitors of these which are within the mall, and naturally it’s shiny, you realize? Individuals cease, like, ‘Hey, what is that this?’” Hamilton mentioned.
Contemporary to Deaf is situated within the mall’s meals court docket throughout regular mall hours.
