Our new café serves a contemporary vegetarian kosher-style menu using local produce and authentic Jewish and vegetarian ingredients. Our menu is designed to be a discovery of traditional meets innovative, providing a flavour of Jewish heritage.  It is based on three principles of Jewish food: evolving recipes, meals to nourish and sustain you, and bringing people together.

Our café is an invitation to our visitors to take a moment to gather round a table, reflect on their visit and to connect with one another.

The café is open from 10am – 4pm daily, serving hot food from 11.30am – 2.30pm. During evening events, the café serves a special menu and drinks. We are unable to offer advance reservations for the café.

We use kosher ingredients but the food is not prepared under on-site Beth Din supervision. All our food is suitable for vegetarians and there will also be a range of kosher pre-packaged snacks available. By offering a vegetarian and vegan menu and using ethically sourced local suppliers we seek to be sustainable whilst providing great value-for-money and an excellent customer experience.

Our café offers the following menu, inspired by Ashkenazi and Sephardi style recipes (the latter giving a nod to the Spanish and Portuguese roots of the our Grade II* listed synagogue).

• Ahava from Girona, an aromatic bean soup, inspired by Spanish frijole dishes, enhanced with rosemary, thyme, onion and garlic, and topped with a parsley and walnut pesto, known as Picada. Served with home-made Challah bread.
• Bagel Bar, warm bagels from a local kosher bakery, served with a selection of sweet and savoury toppings including peanut butter, jam, marmalade and marmite.
• It’s not a salmon and cream cheese bagel with vegan cream cheese, carrot lox and beef tomato. Our all time classic.
• Inspired Specials, changing everyday!
• Tahini & Honey Cookies, our bestselling sweet option to compliment hot drinks.

We also have a Learning Kitchen, a space for schools, communities and businesses to bake, cook, eat and share traditional Jewish recipes.