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.
Take a glance look for vegan take away lunch box pop up on 6th & 7th March / Rose hip jam
Our pop up 0.1 : Vegan takeaway lunch box at Harken coffee.
What is in the box?
We introduced about the artisan bread on the last post.
The preserve for the bread.
Rosehip and Shiso jam.
Shiso is one of Japanese herbs. Tastes like mixed of basil, licorice, and mint.
The tanginess of the rosehip and the distinctive aroma from the Shiso herb are matching very well.
The taste of the jam reminds me plum jam, then I researched about those two plants - plums are a part of rose family. Probably that is because I reminds the taste of the plum jam?
Anyways.
Surprisingly, many of fruits such as pear, apples, cherries, strawberries and almonds, and more are Rosacae(rose) familly.
Ok, ok..back to the subject.
A mini sized jam is with the lunch box, also available full size at Maest market .
Our full menu on 6th and 7 th March.
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 the lunch box from Maest market, or just simply walk in to Harken coffee 338 Powell street.
Glance look of vegan take away lunch box : Maest food pop up 0.1
We are so excited to launch our take away pop up at Harken coffee.
Introducing one of the contents of the lunch box - sourdough bread.
Joey Ridos will make us Buckwheat sourdough bread!
I’ve asked him to make it before when I was planning dinner pop up, however the restriction was changed at the time, the pop up was cancelled.
So this is sort of re-collab with him. His buckwheat bread is perfectly matching with Japanese flavours which I am going to use them for a hidden seasonings.
¨To-go style¨ lunch pop up at Harken coffee(338 Powell street).
It will be every weekend 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
Buckwheat sourdough
Preserves : 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 Iktsuarpok coffee stand
Our Vegan hojicha chocolate chip banana bread is available at Iktsuarpok coffee stand (425 Carrall street )from Saturday, 27th February.
This banana bread is all about flavours, good smoky bitterness from hojicha tea & bitter sweet chocolate, aroma of caramel, fruitiness of banana..
Available by slices.
Vegan Hojicha chocolate chip banana bread.
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.