Chaka Khan Opens Vegan Café in Serenbe, GA

Chaka Khan has opened a plant-based café in Serenbe, Georgia, featuring walnut meat bowls, mushroom bacon, and a signature hot sauce. The opening represents a new chapter in the plant-based dining movement.

Chaka Khan has opened a 100% plant-based, whole-food café named Chaka's Plantbaed Café in Serenbe, Georgia. The new eatery marks the second location for the Plantbaed brand and the first to carry the singer's name, following a smaller café opened in Vinings in 2024 by chef and restaurateur Anne Onyeneho. The Partnership and Menu Chaka Khan teamed up with her sister, Tammy Michelle, and Anne Onyeneho to open the café, which sources all its produce from Serenbe's own farmers’ market. Hoodline reports that the address is 11105 Serenbe Lane, Suite 100, in Chattahoochee Hills, though the Atlanta Journal-Constitution places the same street address in Palmetto, as noted by Hoodline. Markets Insider states the opening date was Sunday, November 1, 2026, coinciding with Serenbe's annual Hamlet Day celebration. Markets Insider adds that hours are 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Tuesday through Sunday, with closures on Mondays. The menu is prepared without seed oils, GMOs or soy. VegNews and Markets Insider detail the signature Chaka Bowl, which features black beans, ground walnut meat, cilantro-lime wild rice, pumpkin seed and jalapeño pesto, pico de gallo, and Through the Fire hot sauce. VegNews reports the Serenbe Cobb Salad features king oyster mushroom bacon, seasonal greens, avocado, deep-fried garbanzo beans, Roma tomatoes, black salt, and hemp seed ranch. Hoodline and Markets Insider mention walnut meat street tacos and a soursop colada. Markets Insider notes the café also sells merchandise and gift items in a gift shop. Plantbaed previously operated a Monday-only ghost kitchen out of Zeke's Kitchen & Bar for two years starting in 2022, according to Hoodline and Essence via VegNews. Community Work and Foundation Markets Insider states that Chaka Khan has received 11 Grammy Awards, including a 2026 Lifetime Achievement Award, while FOX 5 Atlanta described her as a 10-time Grammy winner, as reported by Hoodline. VegNews notes Khan adopted a plant-based diet to help manage type 2 diabetes, citing a 2012 Huffington Post interview. Anne Onyeneho told Essence that Khan and Tammy Michelle came to them as customers first, loving the food before partnering to bring the brand to Serenbe. The opening day featured a ribbon-cutting at 1:30 p.m. during Hamlet Day, followed by the Chaka Khan Foundation unveiling a playground communication board at Terra School at 2 p.m. Markets Insider lists participants including Dr. V., Lisa Elzy Watson, and Brett Hardin. The foundation works to support neurodivergent children and adults, and customers at both café locations can support the foundation through checkout donations. Additionally, the café plans to create employment opportunities for neurodivergent adults and host foundation community programming.

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