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).

• Moroccan Dafina, a nod to a traditional Cholent with influences from the exiled Spanish Jews in Morocco. Packed with potatoes, beans, legumes, jack fruit, garlic and spices.
• Sopa De Grao De Bico, a warm and filling chickpea soup from Portugal. Like most “cozinha pobre”, peasant cooking, this soup requires no fancy ingredients, and is made with staples that most households have on hand.
• It’s not a salmon and cream cheese bagel with vegan cream cheese, carrot lox and beef tomato.
• Date, Citrus & Cinnamon Scone celebrating the Victorians’ love of afternoon tea and our Sephardi roots, we have made the favoured scone even better! Served with butter and your choice of preserve.
• Inspired Specials, changing everyday!

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