Take a trip to the islands with this May with Meat Free Mondays and our guest chef, Iki!

Iki has been in NZ for 19 years, 6 of those on Waiheke. She has worked in amazing restaurants in Auckland and Waiheke for 9 years now and just loves cooking. Her love of food started at a very young age back in Tonga with her grandma, mum and aunties always cooking up delicious island food from their tiny kitchen. Inspired by this, she has a very special menu planned for us:

Entree
Vegetarian Miti (ceviche) & Taro crisps

Main
Steamed taro leaves, black beans parcel & whole roasted kumara

Dessert
Tapioca, coconut dumplings & vanilla caramel sauce

We're so grateful to Iki for stepping in at the eleventh hour to share a taste of Tongan food and culture with us!

We hope you can join us for a little bit of island sunshine this coming Monday.

If you'd like to work with Iki and the MFM volunteers in the kitchen and learn firsthand about the dishes, we'd love to have you - please select the $0 'volunteer' ticket and we'll be in touch.

See you in Tonga!