The Pod - Coventry

21/07/2025

The cafe is closed for the week so the cafe team can take well earned family holidays.

18/07/2025

Today Gemma from Grapevine visited our site to borrow tools from our Tool Bank to use at the Stoke Heath Community Garden, part of an emergent Growing Together initiative in collaboration with Coventry City Council. We would encourage any community growing projects and their volunteers to join Food Union, (already 250 + members strong) which we founded in 2014. Food Union is led by Marc Hammond and Greg Muldoon (pictured) both eco conscious professionally qualified growers with decades of experience. We run weekly soil to table sessions as well as skills exchange workshops and master classes. Members also have access to the tool bank and automatic membership to Time Union.

14/07/2025

A reminder that the cafe will be closed this week, and instead we'll be serving a delicious salad with ingredients harvested today from and at the site.
We'll be serving a Pod Salad with Quinoa, Leaves, Chard, Cucumber, Radish, Beans & Herbs, Caramelised Cauliflower Sauce & an Olive Oil Drizzle. (No Major Allergens)
Also we'll have a Tahini & Coffee cake for dessert (Sesame)
Please remember the site is cash only.
See you at the allotment 12pm-2pm Tuesday & Wednesday 🫛🥬🥒

08/07/2025

Afternoon all! Apologies to all who planned to come today.
Here is our menu for Weds and Thurs this week and it’s a corker! We have allotment salad and herbs, the courgettes in our cake are fresh from the allotment too! Looking forward to seeing your lovely faces

08/07/2025

05/07/2025

Don’t forget it’s Politics & Pakora on Wednesday 9th July from 6pm till 7.30pm at The Pod. If you have lived experience of severe and enduring mental ill health and/or have accessed support from Crisis Services and/or if you identify as neurodivergent this will be an informal evening to talk about experiences of health and social care in Coventry, the good, the bad, and the ugly. We know it can be difficult to get the help and support you need from mental health services at the point you feel yourself slipping towards a crisis.

The evening will be an opportunity to influence the development of services that offer support to people at this very point and will be led by people with their own lived experience.

Our discussions will directly inform the services that are commissioned by the Council and Integrated Care Board from next year, helping make sure that limited budgets make as much difference as possible to people’s lives.

As is the tradition with our ‘Politics and Pakora’ evenings the food and drink is on the house or you can pay as you feel.

Places are limited. If you want to join us please book your space by emailing pod.enquiries@coventry.gov.uk. Image one: photograph of pakora.

30/06/2025

We've got a beautiful menu for you this week, using lots of fresh produce from .
Courgette, Pea & Lemon Pasta with Handmade Cavatelli. Courgettes cooked with Olive Oil, Tons of Garlic, a Pinch of Chilli, Fresh Lemon Rind; Tossed with Fresh Basil & Cavatelli Pasta. Served with a Herby Allotment Salad.
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'KFC' Korean Fried Cauliflower. Korean Spiced Cauliflower, Battered & Crisped, served with Fried Rice, Edamame & Allotment Broad Beans, Pickled Cauliflower, Drizzled with Korean Barbecue Sauce.
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For dessert you have the choice of a Spiced Rhubarb Crumble Cake or a refreshing Lemon Panacotte; served with a Peach Compote
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Open Tuesday, Wednesday & Thursday 11:45am - 2:30pm

25/06/2025

This is so wonderful. The Food UnionLive and Dye garden at Coventry Cathedral is also open on Friday.

This Friday at 3pm we welcome Cellist Kenneth Wilson who is on a Pilgrimage with his cello visiting all 42 English Cathedrals by bicycle, performing for 50 minutes the Meditation on the Seven Last Words of Jesus. The Meditation consists of reflective poems interleaved with movements from the Bach Suites for Solo Cello. The pilgrimage will began in Newcastle on 19 May 2025, and concludes in Carlisle. Free to attend!

23/06/2025

Hello you lovely Pod lot!
Before we get down to the good stuff, please note we are open on Tuesday and Wednesday this week due to staff holidays.

We are not sure if you know this but our Donna is a bit of a chilli pepper connoisseur 🌶️ so we have a real treat for you this week. We have used a variety of chillies to create a delicious slow cooked smokey and fairly spicy chilli packed with veggies and black turtle beans and If spice is not for you, then we have a roasted veggie pod bowl, allotment salad and greens with roasted buckwheat, which is actually a Pseudocereal so doesn’t contain gluten just like quinoa and has a similar rich nutrient profile.
For deserts, a creamy chilled coconut rice pudding topped with mango and passion fruit coulis and freshly baked raspberry and white chocolate cupcakes

20/06/2025

Important event for the City.

Refugee Week Family Fun Day!

19/06/2025

As a secondary mental health service and social regeneration hub we are conscious that we need to create a space for critical conversations with people with lived experience of mental ill health and/or neurodivergence and or/hoarding so we are opening our doors again for a Politics and Pakora’ on Wednesday 9th July at 6pm

We believe the impact of poverty, class, discrimination, and social exclusion must be contended within health and social care as in all areas of public service and policy.

This will be an informal evening (the second in a series ) to talk about experiences of health and social care in Coventry, the good, the bad, and the ugly. We know it can be difficult to get the help and support you need from mental health services at the point you feel yourself slipping towards a crisis. The evening will be an opportunity to influence the development of services that offer support to people at this very point and will be led by people with their own lived experience.

Our discussions will directly inform the services that are commissioned by the Council and Integrated Care Board from next year, helping make sure that limited budgets make as much difference as possible to people’s lives.

As is the tradition with our ‘Politics and Pakora’ evenings food and drink is on the house or you can pay as you feel.

If you want to join us please book your space be emailing pod.enquiries@coventry.gov.uk

Can’t get to this session, don’t worry there will be other sessions organised but themes may change.

image:copy of printed flyer.