"When Nora Haron visited the vacant cafe space at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive earlier this summer, the museum had just put up a beautiful exhibition of African American quilts. Her chef brain was immediately inspired by the colorful patterns: What if she baked a Swiss roll that emulated one of the designs? What if she turned one of the quilts into a cookie?"
"Back in March, the chef made the difficult decision to close SanDai, her two-year-old Indonesian-Singaporean restaurant in downtown Walnut Creek, and the original Kopi Bar coffee shop that shared the space. Reached by phone, Haron explained that business had been terribly slow for well over a year - much too slow to justify the nearly $29,000 rent. At first she'd hoped that another restaurant would move into the space,"
Nora Haron plans to reopen Kopi Bar at the Berkeley Museum and Pacific Film Archive in fall 2025. Haron closed SanDai and the original Kopi Bar after prolonged slow business and unsustainable rent. The new cafe will offer a rotating selection of fusion pastries and creative coffee drinks, including the Kopi Avocado. The menu will feature Singaporean buttered toast with coconut jam served on Haron's ten-year sourdough starter. Haron intends to create museum-inspired baked goods and continue hosting special events such as Indonesian-Singaporean high tea series.
Read at Kqed
Unable to calculate read time
Collection
[
|
...
]