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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.

Three hands raising lattes with leaf art in a toast over a wooden table
Croissants and a sugar-dusted bun in a woven basket

Pastry boxes

Packed in our lilac boxes and ready at the counter. The quickest way to win a Monday meeting.

  • The half dozen

    $30

    Six pastries, the baker’s pick of the morning, ube included.

  • The full purple

    $56

    Twelve: ube croissants, pandesal, taro mochi buns and butter croissants.

  • Coffee & pastry

    $95

    A 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.

Overhead view of coworkers sharing coffee, eggs and pastries around a long wooden table

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 / person

    Pastries, yogurt and granola, fruit, coffee and tea. Minimum twelve.

  • Boxed lunch

    $21 / person

    A sandwich or the sweet potato bowl, a side salad and a financier, each box named.

  • Taro latte bar

    From $240

    A barista, our taro and espresso, and cups for forty. Two hours on site.

Delivery is $20. Two business days’ notice for groups over 25.

A dim dining room with walnut tables, dark leather chairs and tall slatted wood screens

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 / person

    The room until noon, breakfast spread and bottomless coffee from the bar.

  • Coffee tasting

    From $45 / person

    Yuna leads a cupping of four reserve coffees with pastry pairings. Ninety minutes.

  • Evening reception

    From $65 / person

    After 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.

What are you planning?

Timing, dietary needs, the occasion, a favorite pastry.

We reply within one business day.