About the Café
Down to Earth is a casual Café located in the heart of Upper Bucks County. Our mission is two-fold. We want to create the most flavorful food using fresh ingredients and we also want to create a warm friendly place for you to enjoy our food. To ensure freshness, we will use organic and local products whenever possible. This practice supports the area and all of its resources and also reduces our carbon footprint on the world by reducing all of the bio fuels to truck these items across the country, or import them from foreign countries.
We feel that local and organic foods are not only healthier to us and the environment, but simply taste better too.
As far as decor, we feature a local artist and their work on our wall, and the furniture was hand crafted from a local man using old barn wood. We hope that you enjoy all that we have to offer and share in our vision of a healthier place to live. After all, the minds behind our Café are…. just plain down to earth themselves.
The Maxwell Family
In the Press
Perkasie cafe owner ready to get seriously ‘down-to-earth’: "Ryman Maxwell is getting more down-to-earth than ever this spring. The chilly rain dampened the soil but not his spirits Friday as he surveyed his fledging kingdom, a plot of bare earth with infinite possibilities in the Perkasie Borough Community Garden."Bucks Magazine - January 2011: "The Down to Earth Cafe is the kind of place whose appeal creates steady customers based on friendliness. It's a sort of grown-up hangout: wireless, lots of good magazines, an engaging owner who encourages camaraderie among those who want to linger over coffee and chat (Page 48)."
Doylestown Suburban Life - January 2011: "A concern for locally sourced ingredients, chairs that were crafted from barn wood by a local artisan and the work of an artist from the local area providing a key décor element. The Down To Earth Café may be one of the region’s most honest and honestly good for your body and soul dining establishments. "
Farm to Table article at Bucks Life: "In Bucks County, there are at least three restaurants – Earl’s Bucks County in Lahaska, and The Down to Earth Café and newly-opened Maize Restaurant, both in Perkasie – that are focusing on locally-sourced food. On the other side of the river, in Lambertville, Hamilton’s Grill Room and Kindle Café both use local ingredients. I was intrigued. How were they doing it? What I discovered is that we are on the cusp, right here in the Delaware Valley, of a shift in thinking, practice and market demand."
Perkasie News Herald: Shopping local offers support to local economies: "What exactly is “Shopping Local”? Defining shopping local can be a tricky, if not downright confusing, process. Not every store located in your community can be considered a “local” business. There are the obvious exclusions, such as the “big box” and the chain stores, but what about the franchise owned by the dad of one of the kids on your son’s little league team? Local business owner Ryman Maxwell said you have to think beyond location when trying to shop local."
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