Week beginning October 13th - Claires' Long Holiday

As I mentioned in last weeks blog winter has arrived and we're now required to cover our limbs in fleecy materials. Though this can be depressing we find comfort in cozy objects such as the sofa, electric mattress covers, bubble baths and my personal favourite... soup. Last week customers asked if we had broken out the soup kettle yet? Almost but not quite, this week you'll be pleased to know its back! During the mornings we will be serving our vegan porridge with an array of condiments. Then at lunch the kettle will be replaced with soup and served with our very own bread fresh from the oven. 

This week also marks the start of manager Claire's well deserved 4 month holiday, she will be managing the floor Monday and Tuesday and has made a request on Kaffeine's first soup for 2014/15, her selection is my action packed deluxe Chicken and Sweet corn soup, so chunky you need a fork to eat it.  

However if soup is not your thing we will be serving mini French pumpkins which have been hollowed and stuffed with layers of crème fraîche, stale bread, Dijon, thyme and gruyere. All melty and warm with a touch of dairy naughtiness. The stuffed French miniature pumpkins will be replacing our tart, they're so Parisian you'll think you've experienced the Moulin Rouge, street performing mimes and Ladurée in one sitting. 

So come get cosy with the staff and fellow customers this week and if you know Claire wish her a Bon voyage. 

Jared Bryant

Lead Chef

Kaffeine

@redjar50

Traditional bircher muesli with rhubarb and raspberry compote 3.60 (V)

Granola muesli with pomegranate molasses and rhubarb and raspberry compote 3.60 (V)
Fruit salad (pineapple, mango, strawberries, grapes, passion fruit) 3.70 (GF, V)
Ciabatta roll with omelette, pancetta, rocket and tomato salsa 4.90
Ciabatta roll with courgette omelette, rocket and tomato salsa 4.90
Croissant with Italian roast ham, talleggio cheese, spinach & plum tomatoes 4.90
Seven seed bakery bloomer toast with home made preserves 1.90
Pumpkin seed and apricot fruit toast 2.40
Banana bread 2.40
Porridge (V) 3.00
served condiments muscavodo sugar, dried fruit, chopped nuts, golden syrup or honey

Pastries by Seven Seed bakery
French butter croissant 1.90
Pain au chocolat 2.50
Almond croissant 2.80

Baked Treats
Sweet muffin: Carrot cake (V) 2.40
Savoury Scone: Courgette and feta (V) 2.40
Friand: Passionfruit (V, GF)   2.40
Super moist chocolate brownies 2.40
White chocolate blondies 2.40
Portuguese tarts 2.00
ANZAC cookies 2.00
Almond and custard slice 2.40
Canele 2.40

Lunch

French retro baguettes 5.00

Ham, gherkin, gruyere, Dijon, red onion and rocket.

Sauté mushrooms, cheese fondue, tarragon, roasted chestnuts and spinach (V).

Foccacias 5.30

HG Walters organic chicken, Brie, puttanesca pesto and rocket 

Crumbed aubergine, tomato, mozzarella, spinach(V)

Salads: 5.50/6.90

Chorizo, manchago, grilled Laeticia plums and green olives

Frisee lettuce, pickled carrots and red onion with a buckthorn mayonnaise and roasted peanuts

Roasted curried parsnips (VE, GF)

Tart: 4.40 or 7.90 with salad

Two whole baked Munchkin squashes filled with Dijon, thyme, gruyere and crème fraîche (V)

Weekend Menu 

On the weekend we change the salads and the tart offer and also put on one of the best weekend foccacia sandwiches ever invented.

Breakfast Foccacias 6.50

Cotechino Sausage with fried egg, gruyere cheese and aioli 

Salads 5.50 or 6.90

Grilled HG Walters Organic chicken with bulgur wheat, red onion, red pepper, cherry tomatoes, parsley, mint and cashew nuts

Poached pears with Turkish black figs, walnuts, goats cheese, watercress and honey

Roasted parsnip strips fried with a coating of parmesan cheese crumbs and a romesco sauce

Tart 4.50 or 7.90 with salad

HG Walters Bacon with new potatoes, spinach, eggs and cheese