to create meal kits that sustainably source their household’s produce, meat, dairy and alcohol.
Hancock first started the restaurant to extend the care for her community’s health and wellbeing beyond the doors of Body Balance Academy on 151 Mill St. Tao Te Cafe opened in the lower level of the academy, located in The Union newspaper’s old downtown building, which pre-COVID functioned as a poke bowl, tea house and event space.
Shih Fu Eileen Hancock, who teaches kung fu, prepares a sauce in the kitchen of Cafe Tao Te while friend Jocelyn Brown looks on. Brown will be handling deliveries for Cafe Tao Te.