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Opening hours: Monday to Saturday: 8.30am –
5pm, Sundays: 9.30 am- 5pm
Thought of having your wedding reception at CERES? We have extensive experience
catering for weddings, birthdays,
private parties or functions of any kind. Contact the cafe for more details...
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CERES Cafe is now fully licenced (no BYO).
You can choose from a great selection of organic and biodynamic
wines, beers, and spirits. CERES
Café offers a unique and relaxed dining experience, surrounded
by a beautiful outdoor garden setting, a playground for the children,
and some of the best organic food available in Melbourne.
Dine
on spectacular mosaic tables, made by local participants to the
CERES Mosaic Workshops. The tables are nestled amongst garden beds
and tea trees, under the Café’s marquee and on the
cafe veranda which can be enclosed during cool weather. Our organic
menu includes the best and freshest eggs breakfast in Melbourne,
our eggs coming straight from the bums of CERES Organic Farm chickens!!! |
A LITTLE BIT ABOUT CERES CAFÉ…
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The café uses around 80% organic
ingredients, with as much as possible coming straight from the
CERES organic market garden. We cook everything on site, even
our own organic sausage rolls and fillos. All our sweets and
cakes are cooked in the CERES kitchen, with a large range of
organic dietary specific cakes available. Our gluten free sticky-date
and ginger pudding is regularly voted by our customers as one
of the best in town!!!
We
make many of our own organic condiments, as well as supplying
jams, chutneys and muffins to the CERES organic market every
Saturday.
READ OUR MEDIA FEATURES
Hearld Sun, 15 April "Garden to Plate"
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WATER
The
rainwater collected from the roof of the café is stored
in three 1000 litre tanks next to the kitchen and two 1000 litre
bladders under the veranda of the café. The rainwater
is filtered using a UV and sand filter setup by CERES and Yarra
Valley Water. The collected rainwater is then pumped onto the
roof of the café into solar pipes, where it receives
its first stage of heating, then pumped into the hot water tanks
behind the café, heated to 70%C and used in the dishwasher
and hot water service of the café. All
our waste water enters the CERES grey-water bio-filter and natural
reed bed, where it is treated by an experimental waste water
system and used to water the surrounding lawns and gardens.
All the cleaning products used in the cafe are organically based
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WASTE
We have a policy of minimal take away service,
reducing our non-renewable waste. Customers are encouraged to eat
at the cafe, serving food on non-disposable plates with unbleached
recycled paper napkins. No foam or plastic take away cups are available
and all our food scraps are distributed through the worm-farms,
chook yards and organic compost systems which feed the Market Garden.
We
have an ever expanding selection of Australian native herbal and
regular teas, and our Organic coffee is the perfect thing to sip
while chatting lazily to friends as children safely explore the
gardens, sandpit and the unique adventure playground.
Traditional Australian food plants and Bushfoods are a regular part
of our organic menu.
Try
our Warrigul greens and ricotta fillo, or our Honey-toasted wattleseed
muesli. The relaxed and casual atmosphere will entice you back for
one of our yummy organic weekend big breakfasts, with organic beef,
sundried tomato and basil sausages, mushrooms, spinach, beetroot
chilli relish, fresh eggs straight from the CERES chooks, and organic
sourdough toast brushed with herb infused olive oil.
CATERING
FOR FUNCTIONS
For your event, CERES is
inviting you to celebrate in a unique, environmentally pioneering
and peaceful venue. Escape the crowded concrete jungle of crazed
shoppers and party animals and enjoy four hectares of community
park.
CERES Café has an amazing selection of
menus, able to be tailored to your special occasion, and with
the recent addition of a liquor license, has organic beer, wine
and spirits to help celebrate.
From a bush foods flavoured BBQ to an intimate fine dining experience
under the stars or simply canapés and bubbly, choose your
own style! Afterwards, you can walk off your organic celebratory
feast among the grass and trees. CERES has a huge family of artists,
musicians and performers for all ages and tastes, and can even
arrange a visit from a special Christmas person. |
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By having your special function at CERES, you will be not only
supporting an important community project and helping to sustain
our beautiful environment, but also giving your staff/group a
memorable end of year celebration.
To find out more, contact CERES cafe on 9380 8861 before 9am or
after 2pm Monday to Friday and discuss your individual requirements,
or email ceres@ceres.org.au
FUNCTIONS
CAFE
MENUS
DOWNLOAD OUR WINTER
2008 MENU
KEY: (org) – minimum 70% organic, (v) – vegan, (wf)
– wheat free, (gf) – gluten free, (nas) – no
added cane sugar
CERES café
shop
Throughout the year, CERES Café takes advantage of the abundance
of seasonal produce by making preserves, jams and chutneys.
These products are used for in the Café menus, and are also
available from the Café or the CERES Market Shop (Open Wednesdays
and Saturdays).
Also available this summer is CERES Organic Bushfoods Chai, as served
in the café. Below is the type of thing you may be likely
to see this summer.
Ceres grown apricot jams. Made from Apricots grown
near the Cobb oven near the Market. 300ml jar $5
Ceres grown plum jams. Made from plums grown in
the ‘horseshoe’ garden near the cafe. 300ml jar $5
Zucchini, lemon & chilli pickle. Biodynamic
Zucchinis from the CERES ‘Honey Lane’ gardens. 300ml jar $5
Chutneys. Made from organically grown tomatoes
and spices. 300ml jar $5
Sweet chilli sauce. Made from organically grown
Thai chillies. 200ml jar $4
CERES organic bushfoods chai. CERES own organic
chai w Australian Bushfoods of Aniseed Myrtle, Lemon Myrtle &
Pepperberry 100grams $9.50
Ceres farm gift cards. Watercolour paintings of
the CERES farm animals. 6 pack $10
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SOME
GOINGS ON AT CERES CAFÉ
You have probably noticed some of the recent changes
we have made at CERES Cafe. Over the past twelve months, we
have been working hard to move CERES Café toward a
more sustainable future. We are always striving to improve
our service to you, and although not everything we have tried
over this past year has worked perfectly, we are working very
hard to make your visit to CERES the most enjoyable possible.
I believe CERES Café could be one of the most beautiful
dining spaces in Melbourne. There are not many (if any) places
where you can sit at mosaic tables, dine from a menu prepared
using organic produce, at a venue where the environmental
footprint created is kept to an absolute minimum by way of
composting organic waste, recycling, using solar energy, utilising
water collection and solar heating for hot water, and feeding
all waste water through a grey water system.
Thanks for visiting CERES. If
you have any comments or questions, feel freeto call me on
9380 8861, Monday to Thursday
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CERES Community Environment
Park
Cnr Roberts and Stewart Streets, Brunswick East, Victoria, 3057
Phone: (03) 9387 2609
Fax: (03) 9381 1844
Email: ceres@ceres.org.au
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