07/11/2025
Riverview Park and Zoo and Bird Friendly Peterborough have celebrating the grand opening of Hatch Coffee Shop, a newly created, bird-friendly cafe located within the Zoo's playground area on Wednesday morning.
It serves Bird Friendly, fair-trade, and organic coffee beans from Birds and Beans, using compostable cups, through a walk-through window located in the playground. Hatch also offers baked treats, gluten-free options, cold drinks, ice cream bars, candy and fruit.
“The new Bird Friendly Café at the Riverview Park and Zoo brings Bird Friendly Peterborough’s mission to life - showing how small changes in the human environment, like bird-safe windows, bird friendly-products and habitat-friendly spaces, can reduce collisions and support migratory birds. Protecting birds helps protect entire ecosystems, and this café sets an example of how people and wildlife can share space in a healthier, more sustainable city,” says Thomas Luloff, Bird Friendly Peterborough vice chair, .
“We are proud to be one of the founding members of Bird Friendly Peterborough and excited to take this next bird friendly adventure into eco-friendly food service as a fund generating endeavour to support the Riverview Park and Zoo,” said Cathy Mitchell, Riverview CEO and curator manager. “Our role, as part of Canadian Accredited Zoos and Aquariums (CAZA) accredited facility, is to educate and inspire people about wildlife conservation across the globe. Coffee is a great topic to discuss conservation, it’s international, so we must consider not just the impact we are having on the environment locally by running a café, but the effect we are having on the farming landscape on a whole different continent, by buying coffee beans grown 1000’s miles away.”
