Maintaining Eden 100% Organic Wellness Gut Health Cafe

Maintaining Eden is a 100% organic, gut-health-focused cafe running out of the back garden of the Santos Organics store at 51-53 Burringbar Street in central Mullumbimby. For dog owners the back garden is the whole point: a shaded, leafy outdoor space reached through the store rather than off the street, and a calm spot for a well-behaved dog on lead.

The dog setup

Dogs are welcome in the back garden cafe, a relaxed community-garden space with plenty of room between tables. Access is through the main Santos Organics store, so walk your dog through rather than trying to find a street entrance. Bring your own water bowl, as this is a small operation without the dedicated dog kit of a bigger venue. The setting suits a settled dog; it is a garden, not a footpath strip, so the usual street distractions are minimal.

The menu and the mission

The food is built around plant diversity and gut health: organic nourish bowls, house-made ferments and live cultures, polyphenol-packed salads and an unprocessed sourdough, with a genuinely vegan-friendly range. Drinks run to adaptogenic ceremonial cacao, organic coffee, specialty matcha, botanical smoothies and local kombucha. The cafe operates as a profit-for-purpose social enterprise, directing sales toward community organisations helping people affected by mental health and homelessness.

Getting there and hours

The store sits on Burringbar Street in Mullumbimby's main strip, with street parking along Burringbar and the surrounding lanes. Hours vary between listings, roughly 8am starts weekdays with later closes through the back end of the week and on weekends, and the garden hosts community sessions with live music that change the rhythm of the day, so check ahead before a special trip.

Close by with the dogs

The Mullumbimby Off Leash Dog Park gives your dog a run close to town, and The Paddock Project is another garden-set cafe option in town if you are making a morning of it.

More options are on the Mullumbimby destination page and in the NSW cafes index.