Take a glance look for vegan take away lunch box pop up on 6th & 7th March / Kale caesar salad

Our pop up 0.1 : Vegan takeaway lunch box at Harken coffee.

Introducing one of menu items -

Kale caesar salad. Sounds standard again?

What is special about the salad?

The kale is from organic farm, then the dressing is a big key.

It is sort of Japanese & vegan version caesar dressing.

Using Yuzu for the citrus flavour, a few of umami ingredients are also in it.

Toppings are buckwheat bread crumb and almond gremolata, dehydrated chick pea and capers, sliced olives.

The full menu of the lunch box :

Confit carrot, sunflower seed “cheese”, Crushed candied Tamari almonds

Charred broccoli with yuzu salt, shichimi, evo

Marinated, compressed Tempeh steak

Buckwheat Sourdough slice

Preserve sampler : Shiso rosehip jam

Kale caesar salad

$18 before tax

Limited number. Pre-order from Maest market, or just simply walk in to Harken coffee 338 Powell street.

Take a glance look for vegan take away lunch box pop up on 6th & 7th March / Tempeh block steak.

Our pop up 0.1 : Vegan takeaway lunch box at Harken coffee.
What is in the box?

Introducing one of menu items -

Tempeh block steak.

Tempeh steak sounds ordinary?

The secret is our marinade sauce.

Using Harken coffee’s espresso(decaf) & tamari, also infused smokiness from some umami ingredients.

The full menu of the lunch box :

Confit carrot, sunflower seed “cheese”, Crushed candied Tamari almonds

Charred broccoli with yuzu salt, shichimi, evo

Marinated, compressed Tempeh steak

Buckwheat Sourdough

Preserves : Shiso rosehip jam

Kale caesar salad

$18 before tax

Limited number. Pre-order from Maest market, or just simply walk in to Harken coffee 338 Powell street.

Take a glance look for vegan take away lunch box pop up on 6th & 7th March / Confit carrots & seed cheese, tamari almonds

Our pop up 0.1 : Vegan takeaway lunch box at Harken coffee.
What is in the box?

Introducing one of menu items -

Confit carrots and seed cheese, crushed caramel tamari almonds.

Confit carrots, using local farm carrots, I choose kind of ugly ones, they are flavourful and cute look, those carrots are my favourite. I used them often when I did my dinner pop up.I also added Daikon radish for the confit, Daikon sounds Japanese a lot, but it works for mediterranean or middle eastern food too. Confit with some oil, plus buttery richness of a secret ingredient.

The sunflower seed cheese(the pink saucy thing on the bottom) is fermented, orange flavour.

Caramel tamari almonds, it’s a rich flavour from the tamari soy sauce, let’s say - it tastes like salted caramel plus more flavour.

Anyways. All layers of flavour will make you happy.

The full menu of the lunch box :

Confit carrot, sunflower seed “cheese”, Crushed candied Tamari almonds

Charred broccoli with yuzu salt, shichimi, evo

Marinated, compressed Tempeh steak

Buckwheat Sourdough

Preserves : Shiso rosehip jam

Kale caesar salad

$18 before tax

Limited number. Pre-order from Maest market, or just simply walk in to Harken coffee 338 Powell street.

Maest food at Harken coffee

Pop up 0.1 : Take away

Maest food (by Tomoko Tahara) will make a ¨To-go style¨ lunch pop up at Harken coffee(338 Powell street).

It will be every weekends from March 6th with a weekly rotation menu .

The menu for March 6th & 7th :

Confit carrot, sunflower seed “cheese”, Crushed candied Tamari almonds

Charred broccoli with yuzu salt, shichimi, evo

Marinated, compressed Tempeh steak

Sourdough

Preserves : rosehip jam

Kale caesar salad

$18 before tax

Limited number. Pre-order from Maest market, or just simply walk in to Harken.

Time flame: 12-2:30pm for walk in, pre-order pick up 12-5pm.

More details will be updated on closer day in this blog, also Tomoko Tahara instagram story.

Thank you for everything, and new start.

Minor’s lettuce, common edible plants in BC

Thank you for all guests enjoyed the food program at Harken coffee.

I’m no longer involved with their actual food menu for a while, hopefully until their reopen for their kitchen.

However I am stick around with them with my food project called “Maest”(pronounce like must), that is rebuilt my food project “Cookhatter”. I am doing this project since 2017.

The world is different since pandemic - the word “essential” is taking over everything.

Staying home is basic human life in the earth for now, travelling is banned, meeting people are limited, many of entertainment spots are closed, creative restaurants and some service industries are suffering.

Writing all those reality, feeling terrible, but I don’t want to give up.

We need to keep our creative ideas alive -

Having completely new ideas, or finding solutions that the creative people can survive with their ideas getting along with this world of conservatism.

Anyways, my project’s goal is making our clients smile with unique food experience, that is the same as before. The most important thing to make delicious food - love, not egos.

The menu will be different than the menu I made for the Harken - it won’t be Japanese food menu based. 

More focussing on ingredients and flavours, comfort yet fancy food with a twist of Japanese cooking ideas.

To start, popup 0.1 :

Weekend take away lunch box will be at Harken March 6 & 7th. 

The event will happen every week.

The details coming up very soon.