Catering and the Taro Room
The same coffee, taro and pastry as the café, packed to travel or served upstairs in a room of your own. Clara looks after every order, start to finish.


Pastry boxes
Packed in our lilac boxes and ready at the counter. The quickest way to win a Monday meeting.
The half dozen
$30Six pastries, the baker’s pick of the morning, ube included.
The full purple
$56Twelve: ube croissants, pandesal, taro mochi buns and butter croissants.
Coffee & pastry
$95A dozen pastries and a 96 oz box of Violet Hour drip with milk, sugar and cups.
Order by 2 PM the day before. Vegan and gluten-free boxes on request.

Office coffee & breakfast
Breakfast spreads, boxed lunches and a taro latte bar that travels, delivered across New Haven, Hamden and West Haven.
Breakfast spread
$18 / personPastries, yogurt and granola, fruit, coffee and tea. Minimum twelve.
Boxed lunch
$21 / personA sandwich or the sweet potato bowl, a side salad and a financier, each box named.
Taro latte bar
From $240A barista, our taro and espresso, and cups for forty. Two hours on site.
Delivery is $20. Two business days’ notice for groups over 25.

The Taro Room
Upstairs from the café, a long room with walnut tables and tall windows over Crown Street. Seats 32, or 50 standing.
Morning meeting
From $28 / personThe room until noon, breakfast spread and bottomless coffee from the bar.
Coffee tasting
From $45 / personYuna leads a cupping of four reserve coffees with pastry pairings. Ninety minutes.
Evening reception
From $65 / personAfter hours: small plates, a dessert table and an espresso martini bar.
The Taro Room seats up to 32. We book one event a day so nobody is rushed.
Tell us what you have in mind
A rough count and a date is plenty to start. We’ll come back within a day with a menu, a price and any questions.
Or call (203) 555-0174.