Filed under: About the Cafe
We’ve been painting and fixing things like busy little bees, but now we can get back to what we’re best at. Grub!!
We’re opening tomorrow but due to a delivery related catastrophe we won’t be able to serve the usual burger menu, because we haven’t got anything to make them with! Quelle horreur!! Apologies to those who were eagerly awaiting their first punk burger of the year. We’ll have lots of lovely specials though, to make up for it, and tasty cake, tea and Zapatista coffee as usual.
Whoopee! Glad to be back.
Filed under: About the Cafe | Tags: brick lane, clean bean, hackney downs., local tofu
We have started purchasing plain tofu from Clean Bean! Yay! They’re based just near Brick Lane, and we’re really happy to be supporting a local tofu-maker! Now if only we can get someone to start planting a few acres of soybeans…maybe Hackney Downs is a good spot? Hmm.
Filed under: About the Cafe | Tags: bad grammer, desperate attempt at humour, nothing better to do
…there’s always someone who gets annoyed, doesn’t feel appreciated and then goes a little mad and hijacks the website with sarcastic comments and inappropriate photos…
Well, there might not be in your co-op but there is in ours. Check out the handiwork at www.pogocafe.co.uk
Make sure you scroll down enough to hit the creepily suggestive picture of Fibi!
Filed under: About the Cafe | Tags: hackney vegan cafe, vegan risotto, vegan tagine
Not really, we’re only five, no need for an age related crisis yet. Yesterday, every cake was a birthday cake, today, it’s all just tasty tasty cake cake.
On the menu board today we haaave…..
A green bean and chickpea tagine served with couscous and glazed carrots.
Marinated tofu wtih barley risotto, mushroom gravy and steamed vegetables
Fried herb polenta with roasted mediterranean veg, tomato sauce and salads.
That sounds like a good antidote to the downpour outside!
Filed under: About the Cafe
Happy birthday to us, Happy birthday to us…..
Filed under: About the Cafe, Food & Recipes | Tags: fermentation, hackney vegan, london vegan, preserving pears, sauerkraut, vegan breakfast
At the start of the week we found ourselves in posession of ten kilos of lovely English pears, completely unexpectedly. Didn’t know what to do with them for a while, pears are lovely and all, but we just don’t use them on a day to day basis! So after a smidgen of panicking, we found out that we could preserve them, without just turning them into jam or something. Claudia made a syrup involving red wine, and jarred the sliced, peeled pears in the liquid. It looks really pretty and they should last ages, although we think we’ll use them at Christmas for special desserts. Wine soaked pears with vanilla ice cream anyone?
At the same time, I was making a new batch of sauerkraut, with about five pounds of white cabbage. Fermentation rocks, everyone should try it.
Today is Sunday! We have breakfast enough to last all day I reckon. Come on down and get yer fill of american pancakes, scrambled tofu, baked beans, smoky tofu sausages…mmmmmmmm!
Later, there will be nutroast and a special tofu and winter veg stew.
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Filed under: About the Cafe, Events! | Tags: vegan hackney, no borders, immigrant detainees, fundraiser, vegan fundraiser, immigration solidarity, detention centres
TUESDAY 2ND DECEMBER
doors open at 7.00pm, wrapping up around 10.
FUNDRAISING VEGAN MEAL + films + live music
Entrance: £10 suggested donation towards actions in solidarity with immigration detainees (no one turned away for lack of funding)
Bring your own Booze (as long as you clear up your own cans!)
SOLIDARITY WITH THOSE HELD IN IMMIGRATION DETENTION CENTRES
The attempts by states to control the movement of people lead only to criminalisation, apartheid and death. Freedom of movement for all. Close detention centres.
Live acts include
Steve Mayne
Cornelius
The Carbon Town Cryer
Camilla Cancantata
Beth Dariti
POGO CAFE
76 Clarence Road, Hackney, E5 8HB
Info: www.pogocafe.co.uk
Filed under: About the Cafe | Tags: hackney vegan, pogo cafe, vegan burgers, vegan cafe, vegan food, vegan london
today we ‘ave for your gustatory pleasure…
carrot, sweet potato and beetroot patties, served with homemade sweet chili sauce and salads
tofu with fresh green peppercorns, spring onions and courgette, plus salads
mushroom and walnut ragout (that’s a red wine and tomato sauce) with spinach and herb polenta.
curried cabbage cauliflower and coconut soup.
Filed under: About the Cafe | Tags: cafe, co-operative, DIY, hackney, recycling, vegan, walthamstow
Today we went to the FRP, the Forest Recycling Project, which is based in Walthamstow. We got ourselves some recycled paint for the cafe! Hundreds of thousands of litres of paint are estimated to be thrown out in the UK every year. Y’know, you buy a big tin, use half, keep the rest of it for four years in the shed and then chuck it. The FRP are so cool that they put the effort in to trying to divert some of this waste from landfill. So they have a shed full of paints that you can give your old paint to, or go and peruse the colours and take away some for a donation
www.frponline.org.uk
So we’re planning to do some sprucing up over the December closing period. We’ll be closed for about ten days, from the 22nd til the 2nd.
Also today, we’ve been planning the festive menus!! (We don’t like to say the C word) But we do cater for large parties frequently during December, and we like to make it special! Marinated tofu, nutloaf, homemade sauerkraut, roasted root veg and sweet potatoes all feature.
