Can you imagine a fine food and bar absolutely free of packages, without any waste, that will serve you healthy food and quality products, all from local producers ?

A 21st century style shop with the good old aroma, bright and cozy, where you can visit, meet and enjoy a nice conversation over a glass of great local wine or beer, rediscovering the ecological and economical advantages of buying without packages. 

A SIMPLE PROCESS

Bring along the containers you choose and we will refill it with good stuff. But if you have none with you, we will sell you a reusable one and either pay you back when you will return it, or simply refill it, in your next visit !

IN THE BAR À VRAC,
YOU WILL FIND:

Starting with number one waste generator, the liquid products that are sold in a single usage bottle. Very few brands and shops offered a good commercial solution to refill bottles with all kind of liquids. That's why we will make this issue our priority.

ECONOMICAL

• To reach quality products in reasonable prices achieved through the elimination of the packaging costs*.
• To acquire positive habits before the authorities will form an official taxation system for household waste
  
• To support local agriculture and distribution, therefore to support regional employment.

* We pay double: while purchasing and when the waste is being collected, disposed or recycled.

ECOLOGICAL

• 90% of the household waste is packaging, most of it ends up in the incinerators, landfill or in the oceans*. As for sorting and recycling, this process is insufficient, expensive and energy consuming
• To improve our quality of life and preserve the environment. The best solution is not to create a problem. So instead of wasting time, money and energy on developing solutions for eliminating waste why not reduce it by reusing existing packages as much as possible ?

*3.5 million square kilometers, this is the size of what we call  "The seventh continent" predominantly made of plastic debris drifting in the Pacific Ocean

THE DAILY ADVANTAGES

Even if you acquired the habit of sorting your waste, what would you prefer 

1. Make sure you have "good" bags with you constantly, taking them, filled, with your waste once a week to an overflowing recycling container, fighting with a valve that fail to open and grumbling about the smell of manure around them

2. Take your basket with few reusable containers and bags to be refilled with goods in a friendly welcoming store ?

FUN

• See, feel and let the product run between your fingers with its iridescent, its transparent bubbles and natural colors
  
• Touch and feel the products without the barrier of layers of paper, cardboard, or plastic packaging
  
• Take advantage of the latest innovation such as bottling draft beer, cool, straight out of the filler.
  

QUALITY SELECTION
DIRECTLY FROM LOCAL PRODUCERS

Most products are being purchased from regional producers with an extension of products that are either inaccessible here, or a specialty that became part of our local gastronomy and can't be found within our close neighborhood. These are being chosen because of their quality, with or without the bio label

Nathalie Boudé, was already the founder of the NGO  2L Léger&Local, that deals with waste reduction since 2010. She is now creating the BAR À VRAC in order to give directly to customers the expertise, knowledge, and solutions, she acquired in the last five years, as well as counseling  professionals.

Le BAR À  VRAC will be opened in the center of Marseille soon.

In BAR À VRAC, you would be able to speak French, English and Spanish. In addition , we will invite any representative of any other language used in Marseille, for a friendly moments and informal learning over a good glass of wine.

DRAFT BEERS & SODAS ON THE COUNTER

THE FIRST GROWLER STATION IN FRANCE

A « growler », is a solid bottle designed to be reused and refilled with fresh draft beer to take away,

Growlers are being used by the English, American, Australian, Irish and even the German. So the term "Growler station" describe a bar, wine cellar, or a grocery store where you can refill your bottle (growler)

This practice is pretty common in Russia as well as several other countries in the east

The BAR À VRAC will import them and set them up for you, with either beers or sodas from the region.