We’ve absolutely LOVED being part of the Spicebox journey into East End celebrity status and will be so sad to see them go but delighted they have a permanent venue now elsewhere in Walthamstow opening after the new year.
Their last day at The Hornbeam Cafe is 20 December. Get your Xmas dinner outings in now to avoid disappointment! See SpiceBox’s Xmas menu
Want to do your own Vegan Weekend Hornbeam Residency? Get in touch.
At The Hornbeam we support people to ‘skill-up’ and follow their dreams in low-cost, healthy, sustainable living.
The Hornbeam Cafe is a central part of our training facility. If you’d like to learn the secrets of running a vegan cafe but have never had the opportunity or investment to do so, we can help train you and provide you with a space to work from and to be part of a supportive team.
Contact Anne to talk things through.
We are very excited to have Palm Greens start their residency as Hornbeam’s Test Kitchen. Welcome to you, may your journey here be an amazing one! 🌿🌿
Hours Thursday to Sundays 10am till 5 pm
Look out for the brunch menu, coming soon.
Also Palm Greens Supper Clubs coming up are:
Palm Greens Supper Club, 11 January.
Palm Greens Supper Club, 18 January
Do you love making things happen?
We’re looking for a volunteer to help us book and organise events at The Hornbeam in E17 and our Hornbeam Learning Lodge in E4.
We’d love to have you for around 5 hours a week, working from our office at the Hornbeam Centre (Mon, Tues or Fri), or at the Hornbeam Learning Lodge in Chingford on Thursdays. You’ll need to be good on the phone and on the computer (email, Excel, online booking systems) and be a great organiser. If you also have social media skills that would work well too, but not essential.
This would be particularly suitable for someone who’s already got good contacts in the community with artists, workshop leaders, etc, and could help spread the word about our facilities and venues.
Contact Anne at anne@hornbeam.org.uk with your details or call 07492 915531.
The Hornbeam Cafe is open Tues-Sun serving vegan quiches, salads, hotpot, soups, cakes and various drinks, PLUS vegan Indian-inspired food by SpiceBox Thurs-Sun (see below) day and evenings.
SpiceBox are running their exciting Indian-inspired Test Kitchen at the Hornbeam from 21 Sept and NOW EXTENDED due to popular demand to end of December 2018 on Thurs and Fri evenings and weekends during the day and evenings.
Monday: Normal Cafe closed, but The Hornbeam Centre is open for People’s Kitchen – come and learn to cook a vegan meal from 10am or just come for a Pay-As-You-Feel lunch at 1-2pm. Get involved.
Tuesday-Friday:
10am-5pm: Hornbeam Cafe open – drop-in
Thurs and Friday:
5:30-10.30pm : SpiceBox Test Kitchen. Drop-ins possible, but bookings preferable Book online or email hello@spicelabs.co.uk
Weekends:
SpiceBox Test Kitchen takeover
Drop-ins possible, but bookings preferable.
Open 10am-10.30pm / 9pm on Sundays.
We will have a cafe weekend residency coming up in the future (date to be confirmed soon).
This is an excellent opportunity to trade as a vegan catering business from Friday nights to Sunday evenings. Ideal for a catering start-up or pop ups and you’ll be part of our amazing group of people providing healthy and scrumptious food to the community.
If you are interested or would like to be kept informed contact anne@hornbeam.org.uk
And please help us spread the word!
Current an past pop-up chefs at the Hornbeam….
We are so excited to announce that the amazing vegan Indian-inspired SpiceBox who started their month-long Test Kitchen at our Hornbeam Cafe on Fri 21 Sept have been so popular they are staying to end of December 2018!
See: Hornbeam Cafe and SpiceBox opening hours and booking details
So if you haven’t managed to have your tastebuds startled yet, don’t worry and hurry on down!
Dishes including curry house faves tikka masala, dhansak and korma, plus doffles (dosa waffles!) for brunch at the weekends!
In keeping with the idea of testing stuff out, the menu will be changing frequently. For the current menu please visit www.eatspicebox.co.uk
Follow their food antics on Facebook: SpiceBox and Instagram: @eatspicebox
The Hornbeam’s life blood is its amazing volunteers. We are looking for friendly people to help out in our cosy cafe during the week. Could you help?
Volunteer shifts are 12.30-3.30 Tues and Wed.
If you have cafe experience that would be great, but if not, just a friendly and pro-active attitude with lots of passion for good food and some experience with food prep is most important.
By volunteering you’ll be helping this long-standing community space keep its costs low so we can support community initiatives in various ways. You’ll also learn about running a cafe and be in a wonderful, supportive and social place.
Start date: as soon as possible
Contact: Anne@hornbeam.org.uk or drop by and say hello.
Pop into the Hornbeam cafe, relax, have a chat and eat our scrumptious specials, Tues-Fri:
Summer Weekday Morning Treat: Buy a cake and get your drink half-price from 9.00-10.30am.
Summer Weekday Takeway Salad and Drink Deal: Freshly made, organic, seasonal mixed salad box with home-made lemonade for £6.
We love our customers and it’s lovely to see our customers loving our food. Join us.
