Take 2

After a two-year hiatus, a journey through graduate school, retuning from Toronto to the Golden State and beginning a new adventure in Oakland, Chit Chaat Chai will pop open for lunch on Sunday, June 24^th from 12-1pm. Since we celebrated new beginnings with Spring/Navrooz for the café’s first opening,  it seems appropriate after a winter in Toronto to open the second time around a few days after the first day of summer. As the daylight hours now slowly begin to shorten, celebrating sunshine and all the warmth it brings is a little too picture frame perfect to represent the second opening. It makes me go hmm…cuz my normal is not “practically perfect in everyway”. But hey… when in Rome, we must eat!

On Sunday, June 24^th, Chit Chaat Chai will partner with Animals for Africa: Love Made Tangible, a non-profit arts program that benefits and empowers vulnerable women and children through art workshops/education to develop and support hand-crafting cooperatives in impoverished villages. To support the program’s mission, founder Robbyn Alexander McGill has developed folk-art inspired stuffed animal crafting kits to promote crafting circles here in the states.  The cute little creations are then given to vulnerable children as tokens of love. This Sunday retreat, Animals for Uganda will be hosted at the Animals for Africa's headquarters in Oakland, CA.  Crafters of all skill ranges are welcome to create stuffed animals for the KAYDA Orphanage in Kampala and raise funds for their youth art program - In Movement- Art for Social Change. Prior to the crafting party, I will serve up a some fare to fill the belly followed by a cup of cardamom chai at tea time for those who are participating in the crafting circle. (if you would like to host your own crafting circle click here)

Menu

Served together:

Masoor daal - red lentil stewed with pungent spices, herbs, garlic, ginger and a squeeze of citrus

Qunioa infused with garam masalas

On the side:

Roasted sesame cabbage salad with ginger-lime-cilantro dressing

Chopped beets for a little something sweet

BYOA

All food is sourced locally, organic + local when available, cooked with ayurvedic principles and l-o-v-e 

Donation Requested $10 (for lunch)
Tax deductible donation for Animals for Africa $25 (includes chai)

Buy your ticket online here or donate at the door

Space is limited. Reservations Required. Please RSVP

Animals for Africa
1119 E. 15th Street
Oakland, CA 94606