The taste of summer

We are still working in soft-opening mode in Monaco, and I think one of the biggest surprises of this opening has been the scale of the response. Honestly, even for the team.

Monaco usually moves at a very particular, measured rhythm, and many people working here simply had not experienced this kind of café flow before: queues, constant orders and so many people arriving at once.

At one point my team told me: “We knew you were popular. We just didn’t know you were this popular.” And that made me smile because so many of you have told us that you came because you follow Angel on Instagram, have been watching the Monaco project develop or have been waiting to visit us since we first announced it 🪽

I wish I could come out and personally say hello to every person who tells the team they came through Instagram or Angel Wellness Club. Right now, most days you will find me behind the scenes: preparing your orders, working with the kitchen and trying to improve our quality and service literally every day 🤍

For now, we are serving breakfast until 3 PM while the team settles into the rhythm and we continue refining everything.

And then comes the next chapter. Our official Monaco opening is coming, and with it, our new brunch.

Thank you for showing up with so much warmth during these first weeks. We are learning incredibly quickly, and we cannot wait to show you what comes next 💚

There is a particular feeling that arrives at the end of August.

You notice the light changing slightly. The evenings are still warm, but suddenly you are aware that they will not stay that way forever. You pass a market stall full of peaches and think, I should buy them now. You realise you have been meaning to have dinner outside all summer. You start talking about September while August is still happening. And somehow, without meaning to, we begin leaving the season before it has actually ended.

This is something we have been thinking about a lot at Angel Wellness Club because wellness is so often presented as a search for what comes next: the next routine, the next supplement, the next goal, the next version of yourself. But there is another skill that may be just as valuable: being able to recognise when something is already good. Noticing it while you are inside it.

Being present does not have to mean meditating for twenty minutes with your phone in another room. It can look like choosing the peaches because they smell incredible today rather than buying the same fruit you buy every week or taking your coffee outside because the morning is warm.

We are surrounded by systems designed to make everything available all the time: strawberries in winter, work from the beach, entertainment whenever we want it. There is a lot to love about that convenience. But when nothing has a particular moment anymore, we can lose some of the pleasure of anticipation, rarity and attention. And this is where The Taste of Summer becomes about much more than food.

The taste of a season is really the collection of small things that make you realise where you are in your life right now: what you are eating, how the air feels, where you spend your evenings, which people you keep seeing, what you naturally want more of.

This can also change the way we experience the end-of-summer blues.

Instead of looking backwards and asking, Did I do enough this summer?, try looking around and asking: What is still here for me to enjoy? Maybe summer reminded you that you feel better when mornings are slower, when meals are shared, when you spend more time outside or when your phone is simply not the first thing you look at.

So this week, before you make another plan, buy another wellness product or start thinking about your September reset, notice something first.

What tastes better right now?

Where do you want to spend one more evening?

What part of your summer self would you actually like to keep?

That is where we would start.

A little reminder for our Premium Members

Every month, your membership includes €8 / 30 AED in Angel credit to enjoy across all Angel Cakes cafés and Angel Wellness Club locations.

For The Taste of Summer, we picked three drinks that capture three different sides of summer:

Strawberry Glory
Fresh, fruity and softly sweet — the kind of shake that instantly feels like summer.
strawbery, mango, monk fruit, seeds, vegan protein strawbery

Pink Vibes Shake
Bright, tropical and refreshing, with layers of juicy summer fruit
phitahaya, pineapple, mango, orange, black berry, vanilla soy protein

Mango Lassi
A comforting summer option with a tropical feel.
mango, coconut milk, ginger, greek yougurt, turmeric, buckweat honey

Use your monthly Angel credit to try one this week and make it your little Taste of Summer moment 🪽

Inside, we’re turning The Taste of Summer into something practical: