Mindful Bean

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Mindful Bean

Dinners

Pop-ups

Meal prep

About

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Plant-based cooking & gatherings
Toronto & Mexico City

Plant-based cooking, served at your table

Plant-based cooking, served at your table

Plant-based cooking, served at your table

I cook creative plant-based food and host the evenings around it: private dinners in your home, weekly meal prep (coming soon), and the occasional pop-up dinner in Toronto and Mexico City.

I cook creative plant-based food and host the evenings around it: private dinners in your home, weekly meal prep (coming soon), and the occasional pop-up dinner in Toronto and Mexico City.

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Next pop-up · Nov 20

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Offerings

Private dinners

A plant-based dinner party, cooked and served in your home.

Explore private dinners

Private dinners

A plant-based dinner party, cooked and served in your home.

Explore private dinners

Private dinners

A plant-based dinner party, cooked and served in your home.

Explore private dinners

Pop-up dinners

Ticketed group dinners at local venues. Come solo or bring friends.

See the next pop-up

Pop-up dinners

Ticketed group dinners at local venues. Come solo or bring friends.

See the next pop-up

Pop-up dinners

Ticketed group dinners at local venues. Come solo or bring friends.

See the next pop-up

Meal prep

Coming soon

Plant-based meals for your week, made from scratch and ready to heat.

Join the list

Meal prep

Coming soon

Plant-based meals for your week, made from scratch and ready to heat.

Join the list

Meal prep

Coming soon

Plant-based meals for your week, made from scratch and ready to heat.

Join the list

Why Mindful Bean

Experience you can taste

Experience you can taste

Experience you can taste

Everything I’ve learned in kitchens, in wine and in hosting goes into every dinner and every meal.

13 years plant-based

Creative cooking that wins over every kind of eater, plant-based or not.

House-made

Made from scratch wherever possible, from the sauces to the spice blends.

Years in wine

An in-home tasting business and years in the industry behind every pairing.

Built for connection

Years of running events for deeper connection, now at every table I set.

Private dinners

A plant-based dinner party, cooked in your home

A plant-based dinner party, cooked in your home

A plant-based dinner party, cooked in your home

Birthdays, anniversaries, a long-overdue catch-up with friends. I plan a menu with you, then cook and serve it in your kitchen, so you get to sit down and enjoy your guests.

Birthdays, anniversaries, a long-overdue catch-up with friends. I plan a menu with you, then cook and serve it in your kitchen, so you get to sit down and enjoy your guests.

Lara taking notes as a client describes the dinner party she wants to host

1

Tell me about your evening

Share the date, your guests, the occasion and any allergies or dietary needs.

Hands finishing a plate of roasted eggplant, chickpeas and tomatoes with fresh herbs

2

We plan the menu together

We shape the menu and any add-ons together, until it feels just right.

Lara tasting a sauce at the stove while guests gather in the next room

3

I cook, you enjoy

I arrive before your guests, cook in your kitchen and serve every course.

Overhead view of a long dinner table covered in shared plant-based dishes

From

$145 / guest

$145 / guest

$145 / guest

4 courses, groceries included ·

6 – 20 guests ·

Toronto and Mexico City

4 courses, groceries included ·

6 – 20 guests ·

Toronto and Mexico City

Check my date

Add to your dinner

Guests leaning in, deep in conversation around a candlelit table

Facilitated conversation

+ $25 / guest

I guide the table with questions around a theme, so guests get to know each other better, and more deeply.

Lara pouring red wine for a guest at dinner

Wine pairing

+ $50 / guest

Wines chosen for each course, with notes on why each one works with the dish, including some you won’t find at the LCBO.

Every so often I host a ticketed group dinner at a partner venue. Each one is different, shaped by the venue and the night. Book one seat or a few: everyone shares a table, a plant-based meal and good conversation with the people beside them.

Local partner venues

Priced per seat

Shared tables

Toronto & Mexico City

Pop-up dinners

Come solo or bring friends

Come solo or bring friends

Come solo or bring friends

Lara serving guests at a pop-up dinner
Lara lighting candles along a long table before a pop-up dinner

Friday

20

20

20

November

NEXT DINNER

The menu

Hearthside Spritz & Whipped Butter Bean Dip

Hearthside Spritz & Whipped Butter Bean Dip

Roasted Squash Soup

Roasted Squash Soup

Harvest Kale Salad

Harvest Kale Salad

Hearth Pie

Hearth Pie

Spice-Roasted Brussels Sprouts

Spice-Roasted Brussels Sprouts

Apple and Pear Crumble w/ homemade icecream

Apple and Pear Crumble w/ homemade icecream

Sweater Weather Supper

Sweater Weather Supper

Sweater Weather Supper

A plant-based comfort food group dinner at The Depanneur, Toronto

Warming food for the first cold nights, a Smoky Maple Drizzle on every table, and a bag of Sweater Weather Spice to take home.

[TIME] · [$89] + tax · Bring your own wine

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Lara portioning roasted vegetables, grains and greens into glass meal prep containers

Meal prep

COMING SOON

Your week, already cooked

Your week, already cooked

Your week, already cooked

Plant-based meals made from scratch, ready when you are. Every container will be labelled with the dish, the date, what’s in it and how to reheat it.

Plant-based meals made from scratch, ready when you are. Every container will be labelled with the dish, the date, what’s in it and how to reheat it.

Meal prep is launching soon. Join the list, tell me which city you’re in, and you’ll hear first.

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Hi, I’m Lara

Plant-based for 13 years, and happiest bringing people together

Plant-based for 13 years, and happiest bringing people together

Plant-based for 13 years, and happiest bringing people together

When I went plant-based there weren’t many options, so eating well meant getting creative in my own kitchen. It turned into a passion, then into hosting.

When I went plant-based there weren’t many options, so eating well meant getting creative in my own kitchen. It turned into a passion, then into hosting.

Along the way I ran an in-home wine tasting business, spent years in the wine industry, and more recently ran an events company that brought people together over socials and dinners built for deeper connection. Mindful Bean brings all of it to one table. I split my time between Toronto and Mexico City.

Along the way I ran an in-home wine tasting business, spent years in the wine industry, and more recently ran an events company that brought people together over socials and dinners built for deeper connection. Mindful Bean brings all of it to one table. I split my time between Toronto and Mexico City.

Always changing. Inspired by wherever I’m cooking.

Less waste. Rescued produce from Oddbunch.

Pull up a chair. I’ll do the cooking.

Pull up a chair. I’ll do the cooking.

Pull up a chair. I’ll do the cooking.

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