Order our Thamarai Solidarity Dish at any of Pantea Group’s three beach restaurants: Vai Moana, Bo Kaap and La Deliciosa. For every Quinoa and Feta Salad, we donate €0.50 to an educational project that’s changing lives in southern India. No forms. No paperwork. Just good food.
You know when a dish just fits the place you’re eating it? This salad is one of those. Quinoa, feta cheese, tomato, cucumber, spinach, avocado, walnuts and fresh herbs, finished with a citrus dressing of honey and ginger.
Every bite has texture, contrast and a touch of sweetness that calls for another forkful. All Km 0. And there’s something more: for every salad that leaves the kitchen, €0.50 goes straight to Thamarai to fund education in India.
Thamarai means “lotus flower” in Tamil. And like the lotus flower, the project grows where you’d least expect it. Based in southern India, in the villages around Auroville, since 2006 it has worked as a second home for more than 90 children and young people every day.
There they study, eat, play sport, learn how to use technology, discover art and train in leadership and personal development programmes to bring change to their own communities.
They open seven days a week. Because opportunities don’t take weekends off.
So that a twelve-year-old girl learns to code. So that a group of teenagers stage a play. So that a family has support when things get tough. So that ninety kids know that tomorrow, whatever happens, Thamarai will be open waiting for them.
That’s what every Quinoa and Feta Salad builds. Small gestures that, added together, hold up an entire project.
This summer, at Vai Moana, Bo Kaap and La Deliciosa, you can choose one more thing: that your meal adds up somewhere it really matters. The salad is waiting for you. So is Thamarai.
