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WELCOME TO QUEENSLAND'S FIRST GREEN TEA CAFE
Good News! We now have extended opening hours:
Gallery: Tuesday-Sunday, 10am-5p.m. Cafe: Thursday-Sunday 10am-5pm.
Here at Tokonoma Gallery and Green Tea Cafe, situated in restful bush land 15-20 minutes from Gold Coast beaches , is Queensland’s first green tea café, serving spectacularly beautiful and healthy drinks and desserts that marry Japanese and Australian flavours. The star of the café’s menu is Iced Matcha Supreme, a deep green tea “cocktail” made from the same superbly healthful tea as used in Japan’s 400-year-old tea ceremony. It is sweetened to perfection with fresh orange juice and fragrant lemon-myrtle syrup and served on ice in a tall glass. Other unusual offerings include black coffee jelly, curry ice cream, and delightful dumplings of glutinous rice spiked with cream cheese and topped with a delectable sweet soy sauce. Drinks are from $4:00 for filtered coffee, from $4.50 for green teas and $6.00 for iced matcha supreme. We also have a limited lunch menu. Please check the offerings at the bottom of this page. Visitors to the café are also treated to beautiful natural surroundings and a visual feast of the gallery’s unusual contemporary art. Cafe reservations are strongly recommended due to limited seating. Thank you!
Tokonoma High Tea (by reservation only 10 a.m. or 2:00 p.m.)
TOKONOMA HIGH TEA For a special occasion with friends or family, enjoy the Tokonoma Ambience with a "green" High Tea. Your treat begins with a taste of our signature drink, the Iced Matcha Supreme, and continues with a soup and platter of savoury and sweet delicacies (three type of original sushi, tofu "miso" dengaku, curried potato salad, and a mini Japanese curry. This is followed by black coffee jelly with marinated fig, dango dumplings in sticky sweet sauce and roasted green tea. Available Thursday to Sunday, Sittings at 10am and 2pm. Cost $29 pp RESERVATIONS ESSENTIAL BY NOON THE PREVIOUS DAY: 07-5530-2378
ENJOY A "DELUXE HIGH TEA" AS PART OF OUR SPECIAL "TASTES OF GOLD COAST" OFFICIAL EVENT You will be served a superb selection of savoury and sweet treats that combine Gold Coast and other Australian and Japanese produce with Japanese flair along with complimentary sake. This is a super-deluxe version of our unusual Tokonoma High Tea. In addition, the highlight of your special High Tea will be a talk and demonstration of the Japanese tea ceremony by Margaret Price and Japanese tea ceremony practitioners. Available: August 26 (Tuesday), August 27 (Wednesday), September 2 (Tuesday), September 3 (Wednesday) Cost: $55 pp. Sittings: 10 a.m. and 2 p.m.
Reservations essential. Get in for this one early as it is a special event taking place on only four days: 07-5530-2378
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LUNCH JAPANESE CURRY Japanese-style chicken curry served with rice and toppings and fresh fruit salad for dessert. $14.50 Takeaway curry+rice: $13:50 CREAMY SOUP WITH CRUSTY BREAD Sweet potato and leek soup served with crusty bread. $8.50 TOKONOMA-DON Superbly flavoured grilled eggplant, marinated grilled capsicum and chicken served on donburi-sauce flavored rice. $11.50 Without chicken: $8.50 JAPANESE HAMBAAGU Succulent patty made of hand-ground grain fed beef and herbs and cooked in sauce with shallot topping. Rice and mini-soup on the side. $13.90 BEVERAGES AND SWEETS
1. ICED MATCHA SUPREME (Pictured above) A delicious cocktail of premium Matcha green tea and fresh orange, sweetened with superb lemon myrtle syrup and served on the rocks. $6.00 2. MATCHA "CAPPUCCINO" Smoothly blended matcha green tea served in a traditional tea bowl with a lashing of our delicately sweetened frothed milk. $5.00 3. TRADITIONAL WHISKED MATCHA A bowl of whisked premium Matcha tea in the style of the traditional Japanese tea ceremony. Or straight whisked matcha on the rocks $4.50 4. SENCHA LEAF TEA Your own pot of highest grade Sencha leaf tea. We pour your first cup and provide extra boiling water, enough for two refills. $5.50 (Our sencha leaf tea is available in 100g packs) 5. ROASTED GREEN TEA WITH POPPED RICE Enjoy the toasty flavour of this roasted green tea with popped brown rice (genmaicha) . Served in individual tea pots. $5.50 6. COFFEE SUPREME (HOT OR ICED) A beautiful filtered coffee lightly sweetened with raw sugar syrup and topped with frothed milk. $5.50 7. REGULAR COFFEE Filtered Lavazza coffee served hot or on ice. Milk, sugar or syrup on the side. $4.00 8. REGULAR TEA (HOT or ICED) Fine organic Sumatran tea. Milk and sugar on the side. $4.00 9. BUCKWHEAT TEA A delicious tea made by infusing roasted buckwheat seeds. Served in individual tea pots. $5.00 FOR KIDS 10. GREEN MILKSHAKE Classic malted milk made with plain vanilla ice cream and our healthful matcha green tea. $4.50 11. GREEN TEA ICE CREAM SPIDER Lemonade with our special homemade green tea ice cream $4.50
12. ORANGE JUICE 100% juice $3
SWEET THINGS 13. BLACK COFFEE JELLY A delicately flavored black coffee jelly made from premium filtered coffee served with lemon myrtle syrup and cream. $4.00 14. ORIGINAL ICE CREAMS Choose from our signature lemon myrtle-green tea flavour, our slightly spicy “curry-ice” or espresso ice. $4.50 15. GREEN TEA CAKE A rolled cake with green tea cream and adzuki bean paste in the centre $5
17. WAGASHI (Japanese Sweets) Refined and beautiful traditional Japanese sweets made from beans (no butter or cream.) Perfect with traditional whisked tea. Choose from Nerikiri $3.50, Sakuramochi $3.50, Sesame O-hagi $3.50, Manju $3.00 or Yokan $3.00
18. DANGO WITH STICKY SAUCE Delightful dumplings of glutinous rice, topped with delectable sticky sweet-soy sauce. $5.00 Takeaway: $5.00 for 2 skewers
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Wagashi Platter a selection of 6 different items for $19.80 (takeaway gift box also available)