• ESSENCE of AROHA AHORA

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Being Presence Centre. Gluten free, dairy free, refined sugar free. Fresh frequency food and divine drinks. Serves blueberry buckwheat pancakes, pumpkin date slices, veggies soup, fries, polenta fingers, salad bowl, chickpea wraps, bliss balls, hemp seed patty burger, etc. Ceremonial cacao, Blue Lotus tea, other teas and hot and cold drinks. Open Mon 11:00am-10:00pm, Tue-Wed 10:00am-6:00pm, Thu-Fri 10:00am-10:00pm, Sat 12:00pm-10:00pm, Sun 12:00pm-5:00pm.


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5 Reviews

First Review by dave-alter

stevenvegan

Points +151

Vegan
29 May 2025

Even Mr Bumble would give this soup a swerve

Let’s start with the plus. The owner was lovely. The polenta fries were decent if unremarkable. Fries are fries. Difficult to mess them up. The potato salad was ok. Again, difficult to screw up. The “soup”, however was possibly the worst I’ve ever eaten. Thin, sour, watery, and just dreadful. Sorry, but soup is so difficult to get wrong, and this succeeded on every possible level. Just awful. I wish more of the menu was available, but most of it wasn’t.

Pros: Pleasant owner

Cons: Food pretty awful

BeingPresenceCentre

17 Nov 2025

Ah so sorry that you had a bad experience. The soup must've been having an off day. : (. Apologies. Wish you had said something, as would have given you a refund!

BRose

Points +20

Vegan
17 Feb 2025

AMAZING!!!

We got the fries and the tofu quiche. The fries were perfectly cooked and seasoned.. crispy and flavourful! The tofu quiche was absolutely delicious, and served with the perfect amount of cheese and relish garnish. The food was so good that I didn’t even think to photograph it before it was all gone! Everything served is vegan and gluten free!! The owner was really lovely too. We went for dinner after 8pm and the cafe space where you order is at the back of the shop. The shop is filled with all kinds of interesting things to look at! Jewellery, clothes, decor, homewares and more! The main space is open for people to gather and play games and hang out with a reading corner too. There is also seating out the front but it was a dark and rainy night so we just ran inside. Lol. 10/10 recommend this place.
❤️🧡💛💚🩵💙💜🩷

Pros: Good value , Nice vibe, 100% vegan and gluten free

BillyBoxer

Points +147

Vegan
02 Feb 2025

Delicious home cooked food

Finally got to try a pie in NZ, had the mushroom one and it was delicious. Interesting shop and comfy cafe highly recommend

HollyTrimmer

Points +31

Vegan
30 Jan 2025

Delicious polenta fries

Love the atmosphere, beautiful cafe & shop. I had the polenta fries which were amazing, will be getting the buckwheat pancakes next time. They smelt so good from across the table!

Pros: Vegan , Beautiful cafe, Good vibes

dave-alter

Points +398

Vegan
12 Jan 2025

Cute little vegan cafe in a spiritual shop

We had some delicious lunch here! We had the wraps and the pancakes, which were both scrumptious! The only all vegan spot in Takaka, so definitely check it out!




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