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Planted by La Tour Café

987 Queen Street Located in ‘A‘ali‘i Shops

An offshoot of La Tour Café, a beloved local restaurant known for its delicate macarons and exceptional cuisine, Planted by La Tour Café in ‘A‘ali‘i will include an array of pastries, snacks, a rotating selection of limited-time flavors, and special menus throughout the year.

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Free self-parking is available at Ae'o (Whole Foods) parking garage.

(808) 200-5965

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La Tour Café Has Switched Its Entire ʻĀina Haina Menu to Plant-Based

Meat-, dairy- and egg-free menu items at planted by la tour café include burgers, banh mi sandwiches and yes—macarons..

T here’s bold news on the eating scene: La Tour Café in ʻĀina Haina revamped its menu late last year and has gone completely plant-based. Now known as Planted by La Tour Cafe, the restaurant in ʻĀina Haina Shopping Center offers dairy-free, egg-free, meatless versions of menu items from savory banh mi sandwiches to crisp and cloud-like macarons. Its motto, “sprouted from the bottom, now we’re here,” totally reflects the cafe’s practice of sourcing local and fresh as much as possible.

An offshoot of the family-owned, locally operated Ba-Le Sandwich Shop chain, La Tour Café is a small chain of casual modern bistro fare with some French influences. While its other locations have kept their regular menus, it’s fun and gratifying to see new versions of many of their snacks, salads, sandwiches and burgers—and at the same prices or for about a dollar more. Plus, all the dishes are served in eco-friendly packaging. So whether you’re giving up meat for Lent or just want to try out La Tour dishes in plant-based form, Planted is a must try.

SEE ALSO: Zippy’s Lent Menu Has Indulgent Meatless Weekend Specials

Sandwiches and burgers

Photo: Annabelle Le Jeune

Planted uses La Tour Bakehouse baguettes, buns and bread in its sandwiches and burgers, and you can certainly tell. The Caramelized *Prk Banh Mi ($13.49) is stuffed between a perfectly crunchy-on-the-outside, fluffy-soft-on-the-inside baguette. The pork alternative is soft, juicy and doused in a classic balance of banh mi sweet and savory sauces. Also available are the *Meetball Sub ($13.40) with garlic arrabiata sauce; the Mushroom Dip ($15.20), the cafe’s take on a French dip, featuring ali‘i, button and maitake mushrooms and an umami jus for dipping; and the LTC Planted Teri Burger ($13.49), with a “planted-yaki” marinated Impossible burger.

No French-Vietnamese inspired bistro would be complete without pommes frites, better known as French fries. The garlic pommes frites ($6.25), topped with flakes of roasted and fried garlic, have the perfect crunch and are good on their own and even better with a sandwich or burger. The snacks menu also offers bowls of miso-mushroom umami broth, a plant-based version of La Tour’s roasted tomato basil soup, and other options like a grilled cheese sandwich ($5.99) with plant-based cream, American and provolone cheeses; and plant-based chick’n tenders ($10.99).

SEE ALSO: Old-School Diners We Love: Jack’s Restaurant in ‘Āina Haina

Green Patch

Usually when I eat out, I don’t order salads because I feel like they’re often an afterthought and aren’t as exciting as the rest of the menu. That’s not the case with Planted’s falafel salad ($12.99). The carrots, grape tomatoes, cucumbers and leafy greens are vibrant and fresh. The falafel is crunchy on the outside and light on the inside. Mixed with artichokes and olives, the tangy, savory and sweet salad almost doesn’t need anything else, but I wouldn’t skip a drizzle of the lemon tahini dressing. The Green Patch section of the menu also includes a plant-based version of La Tour’s chicken salad ($13.60) with pickled lychee, crispy lotus root and ginger dressing; and a house salad and Caesar salad.

You can’t leave a La Tour without one or two macarons. The chain’s bakers spent a year and a half developing an egg-free, plant-based recipe, according to Planted’s Instagram. All of La Tour’s rainbow-like lineup of macarons are sold here, including popular local fruit flavors like mango, guava and liliko‘i. Plant-based macarons are indicated with a leaf icon and when sampled side by side, reveal nearly no difference in taste or texture. They’re equally as delicious as the egg-based macarons. And P.S. Planted has kouign amanns, and they’re plant-based, too.

820 West Hind Dr., (808) 373-5174, @planted.hi

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With more than 10 years of experience as a professional writer, Megan holds a degree in Mass Media from her home state of Minnesota. After college, she chose to trade in her winter boots for slippahs and moved to the beautiful island of Oahu, where she has been living for more than five years. She lives on the west side but is constantly taking mini-road trips across the island and visits the neighboring islands whenever she can getaway. She loves hiking, snorkeling, locally-grown coffee, and finding the best acai bowl on Oahu.

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The Aloha State is well-known for the magnificent bakeries and cafes you’ll find across our beautiful islands and while we love the scrumptious coffee, tasty malasadas, and local favorites served at these places, you’ll only find one incredible cafe that serves the most mouthwatering macarons in Hawaii. For macarons and so, so much more, visit La Tour Cafe. 

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Moscow metro tour: architectural styles of the subway.

Duration: 2 hours

Categories: Culture & History, Sightseeing

This metro tour of Russia’s capital and most populous city, Moscow, is your chance to get a unique insight into the beautiful and impressive architecture of the city's underground stations. Admire their marble walls and high ceilings representing Stalin's desire for glory after World War 2, and see first-hand how the interiors change with the rise of new political eras. Your guide will lead you through the complex network, which is one of the most heavily used rapid transit systems worldwide, with over two billion travelers in 2011.

Opened in 1935, Moscow’s underground system, now 190 miles (305 km) long with 185 stations, is today one the largest and most heavily used rapid transit systems in the world. On this Moscow metro tour, discover the impressive architecture of Moscow’s underground stations and learn how they reflect the Soviet era.

Getting around by metro, your local guide will take you through parts of Moscow’s infamous history. Stop at stations built during the time of the USSR (Soviet Union) that are praised as one of the most extravagant architectural projects from Stalin’s time. After World War 2, he was keen on establishing Stalinist architecture to represent his rising regime and a recognized empire. Learn how when his successor started the de-Stalinization of the former Soviet Union in 1953, the extravagancy of the architecture was toned down.

Discover how the unique character of each station reflected several different eras. While stations like Kievskaya and Slavyansky Bulvar have pompous halls and high stucco ceilings brimming with extravagant decorations, those built later, like Volzhskaya, are lightly adorned with sparse furnishings. Architect Alexey Dushkin and painter Alexander Deyneka were just two of the many artists who made these magnificent landmarks possible.

Revel in Moscow's glory days, as well as the years of scarcity, on this fascinating Moscow metro experience. Conclude your tour at one of the central stations in Moscow. If you're lucky, you may even find the secret entrance to the unconfirmed Metro-2, a parallel underground system used by the government -- a mystery which has neither been denied nor confirmed today.

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Moscow Metro Tour

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Moscow metro private tours.

• 2-hour tour $87:  10 Must-See Moscow Metro stations with hotel pick-up and drop-off
• 3-hour tour $137:  20 Must-See Moscow Metro stations with Russian lunch in beautifully-decorated Metro Diner + hotel pick-up and drop off. 
• Metro pass is included in the price of both tours.

Highlight of Metro Tour

• Visit 10 must-see stations of Moscow metro on 2-hr tour and 20 Metro stations on 3-hr tour, including grand Komsomolskaya station with its distinctive Baroque décor, aristocratic Mayakovskaya station with Soviet mosaics, legendary Revolution Square station with 72 bronze sculptures and more!
• Explore Museum of Moscow Metro and learn a ton of technical and historical facts;
• Listen to the secrets about the Metro-2, a secret line supposedly used by the government and KGB;
• Experience a selection of most striking features of Moscow Metro hidden from most tourists and even locals;
• Discover the underground treasure of Russian Soviet past – from mosaics to bronzes, paintings, marble arches, stained glass and even paleontological elements;
• Learn fun stories and myths about Coffee Ring, Zodiac signs of Moscow Metro and more;
• Admire Soviet-era architecture of pre- and post- World War II perious;
• Enjoy panoramic views of Sparrow Hills from Luzhniki Metro Bridge – MetroMost, the only station of Moscow Metro located over water and the highest station above ground level;
• If lucky, catch a unique «Aquarelle Train» – a wheeled picture gallery, brightly painted with images of peony, chrysanthemums, daisies, sunflowers and each car unit is unique;
• Become an expert at navigating the legendary Moscow Metro system;
• Have fun time with a very friendly local;
• + Atmospheric Metro lunch in Moscow’s the only Metro Diner (included in a 3-hr tour)

Hotel Pick-up

Metro stations:.

Komsomolskaya

Novoslobodskaya

Prospekt Mira

Belorusskaya

Mayakovskaya

Novokuznetskaya

Revolution Square

Sparrow Hills

+ for 3-hour tour

Victory Park

Slavic Boulevard

Vystavochnaya

Dostoevskaya

Elektrozavodskaya

Partizanskaya

Museum of Moscow Metro

• Drop-off  at your hotel, Novodevichy Convent, Sparrow Hills or any place you wish
• + Russian lunch  in Metro Diner with artistic metro-style interior for 3-hour tour

Fun facts from our Moscow Metro Tours:

From the very first days of its existence, the Moscow Metro was the object of civil defense, used as a bomb shelter, and designed as a defense for a possible attack on the Soviet Union.

At a depth of 50 to 120 meters lies the second, the coded system of Metro-2 of Moscow subway, which is equipped with everything you need, from food storage to the nuclear button.

According to some sources, the total length of Metro-2 reaches over 150 kilometers.

The Museum was opened on Sportivnaya metro station on November 6, 1967. It features the most interesting models of trains and stations.

Coffee Ring

The first scheme of Moscow Metro looked like a bunch of separate lines. Listen to a myth about Joseph Stalin and the main brown line of Moscow Metro.

Zodiac Metro

According to some astrologers, each of the 12 stops of the Moscow Ring Line corresponds to a particular sign of the zodiac and divides the city into astrological sector.

Astrologers believe that being in a particular zadiac sector of Moscow for a long time, you attract certain energy and events into your life.

Paleontological finds 

Red marble walls of some of the Metro stations hide in themselves petrified inhabitants of ancient seas. Try and find some!

• Every day each car in  Moscow metro passes  more than 600 km, which is the distance from Moscow to St. Petersburg.
• Moscow subway system is the  5th in the intensity  of use (after the subways of Beijing, Tokyo, Seoul and Shanghai).
• The interval in the movement of trains in rush hour is  90 seconds .

What you get:

• + A friend in Moscow.
• + Private & customized Moscow tour.
• + An exciting pastime, not just boring history lessons.
• + An authentic experience of local life.
• + Flexibility during the walking tour: changes can be made at any time to suit individual preferences.
• + Amazing deals for breakfast, lunch, and dinner in the very best cafes & restaurants. Discounts on weekdays (Mon-Fri).
• + A photo session amongst spectacular Moscow scenery that can be treasured for a lifetime.
• + Good value for souvenirs, taxis, and hotels.
• + Expert advice on what to do, where to go, and how to make the most of your time in Moscow.

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