Café Concept Meal Kits — Holidays 2025 (Friday, Dec 12)

Meal kits will be ready for pickup in the George Brown Chef School Grand Atrium (SJB, 300 Adelaide St. E, Toronto - Main Floor) on Friday, December 12, between 11:45 am and 12:30 pm.

Our Baking and Pastry Arts students are pleased to offer unique Café Concept Meal Kits for sale, as part of their third-semester lab exams. In teams of two, students have created unique and specially designed menus to showcase all the skills they have acquired to date, based on a café concept of their own. Many unique, creative, and delicious meal kits are available to choose from!

Café Concept Meal Kits are an excellent value — only $29.99 plus HST — and a perfect way to support our hard-working students!

Every Café Concept Meal Kit includes:

• A full-size loaf of bread
• A jarred preserve
• An appetizer dish (One portioin)
• A main course meal with sides (One portion)
• A Viennoiserie product (a speciality croissant or similar)
• A dessert element

Details for all menus are below. Only three orders are available for each menu — order your favourites as soon as possible!

Please note: These meal kits are only available for pickup on Friday Dec 12th between 11:45am and 12:30pm

George Brown Chef School Grand Atrium (SJB, 300 Adelaide St. E, Toronto - Main Floor)

The CHCA Staff and Faculty thank you very much for supporting our students. Bon Appetit!

Mémère’s Kitchen

A cafe that feels less like a restaurant and more like a tiny home in the middle of France with your Nonna’s food. The smell of the delicious slow-raised stews and fresh bread, accompanied by the mismatched chairs and wooden table with fresh-picked flowers and mismatched tablecloths. Food happily stuck in tradition, and customers who are treated more like family and less like transactions.

1. Classic French Sourdough Baguette
2. Crispy Cheese Gougères
3. Beef Bourguignon with Mashed Potatoes
4. Kouign-Amann
5. Confit D’Oignon
6. Lemon and Tonka Madeleines

Tried & True Café

Our café celebrates the traditional flavors and artistry of classic Chinese cooking and baking traditions. At Tried & True Café every dish is part of a connection between tradition and modern creativity.

1. Black Sesame filled sourdough loaf
2. Smashed Cucumber Salad topped with pickled radish
3. Vegetarian Mapo Tofu with Steamed Rice and veggies
4. House made Plum Jam
5. Black Sesame Glazed Croissant
6. Chinese Almond Cookie

Taste-Tea

A menu inspired by the vast amount of flavours found in teas.

1.Early Gray Soudough Loaf
2.Charred Kale Salad with Peppermint tea Vinegrette
3. Lemon Ginger Tea Tofu with Turmeric Rice
4. Matcha Danish
5. Raspberry Pomegranate Jam
6. Brown Butter Chai Cookies

Taste of Home: Bharat x Bayan

Our concept is a taste of home. It celebrates the shared heart of Filipino and Indian comfort food: dishes that remind people of home, family, and creativity in the kitchen. The names Bharát (India) and Bayan (the Filipino word for “community” or “home”) represent how food connects people from different backgrounds through shared flavors and traditions.

1.Garlic & Herb Whole Wheat Sourdough
2.Creamy Beef Korma Soup
3.Lachha Paratha Kathi roll w/ garlic sauce & buttered corn
4.Atchara-Pickled Papaya Salad
5.Cruffin-Ensayamada with shredded cheese and Bacon bits
6.Coconut Cardamom Pound Cake

Cafe Hinata

Comfort in every bite and season, a taste of Japanese warmth to carry you through the winter.

1. Furikake Sesame Sourdough
2. Japanese Potato Salad
3. Beef Curry Udon
4. Yuzu Almond Croissant
5. White Miso Apple Butter
6. Matcha White Chocolate Muffin

The Pearl and The Elephant

Traditional Filipino flavours with an Ivorian twist.

1. Sourdough loaf with candied ginger
2. Beef Empanada
3. Palabok with Abolo
4. Mango mint preserve
5. Croissant with passion fruit crème pâtissière
6. Pineapple coconut madeleine

Oishii Cafe

We hope to bring simple home style Japanese flavors into our cafe to share our love and memories of Japan with our customers.

1. Sourdough Shokupan
2. Tamagoyaki
3. Mentiko Pasta with Marinated Soft Boiled Egg
4. Pickled Cucumber
5. Chestnut Croissant
6. Matcha Madeleine

Holly & Hearth

The inspiration behind the Holly and Hearth menu is the warmth and festive joy of Christmas. Giving a taste our Europe and homemade baked goods.

1.Cranberry sourdough
2.Italian carpese sandwich croissant
3.Almond croissant
4.Maple blueberry jam
5.Peppermint chocolate chip cookies

CHUN HARMONY FLAVORS

Our menu is a journey through the heart of Chinese culinary tradition,
reimagined for the modern palate. We use authentic, time-honored
ingredients—like red sugar, osmanthus, taro, lotus root, red grapefruit and Pu'er tea—to create dishes that are both nostalgic and novel.

1. Red Date & Sesame Sourdough
2. Osmanthus Lotus Root
3. Pork Floss & Zhacai Sticky Rice Roll Served with Savory Soy Milk
4. Honey & Red Grapefruit Jam
5. Red Sugar Puer Croissant
6. Suzhou-style Mooncake with Taro

Dungeons & Delicacies

A whimsical collection of foods inspired by the creatures and realms of Dungeons & Dragons.

1. Dragon Egg - Salted Egg Yolk Sourdough loaf with a Black Sesame Crust
2. Vigorwasp Royal Jelly - Shimmering Persimmon, Lemon & Thyme Jam
3. Feywild Salad – Cold Mushroom Medley and Couscous Salad w/ Sesame Dressing
4. Cockatrice Leg & Cave Fisher Roe - Chicken Adobo w/ Korean multigrain rice & Fresh Cucumber
5. Enchanted Shell of Sword Coast – Brown Butter Matcha Madeleines
6. Ancient Portal Stone – Malt Chocolate Filled Scroll Croissant

AKA Cafè

“AKA Café – Heal you with food, heal you twice with quirky humor.”

1.Sourdough Filone
2. Italian Salad
3. Thin-Crust Pizza
4. Sfogliatella Riccia
5. Roasted Red Pepper Spread
6. Biscotti

Cool Beans Cafe

Celebrating the humble bean, a sustainable and versatile ingredient. Each dish celebrates one of the many varieties of bean in a flavourful and playful context.

1. Sweet Red Bean Swirl Sourdough
2. Spiced Black Bean Soup with Quick-Pickled Red Onion & Radish and Lime Sour Cream
3. White Bean, Brown Butter, Thyme & Farmer’s Cheese Pierogi with Caramelized Onion Jam, Sour Cream and Garlic Green Beans
4. Coffee Bean Croissant with Whipped Coffee Ganache
5. Peach Vanilla Bean Jam
6. Tofu Chocolate Silk Tart with Kinako (Toasted Soybean Flour) Pâte Sucrée, Kinako Dusting, and Chantilly Cream