The protocol matrix, printed on the menu.
Kauaʻi’s retreat venues already speak this language — Ayurvedic, detox, plant-based, raw. This is the island’s only catering product that answers in it: menu families labeled dish by dish, built to your program notes.
The menu families
Five protocol families, each a full multi-day menu architecture:
- Plant-based — a cuisine, not a subtraction; the island’s farms carry it without repetition
- Ayurvedic-fluent — kitchari days, warm breakfasts, spice builds aligned to your program notes
- Detox — clean, structured, broth-and-greens-anchored weeks that still eat like food
- Raw-leaning — raw-forward formats with the cooked line alongside for mixed tables
- Paleo / clean omnivore — Kauaʻi grass-fed beef, day-boat fish, market vegetables, no grains
Labels as infrastructure
Every dish on a retreat menu carries its protocol labels and allergen flags — printed, not memorized. Guests self-serve correctly without asking; hosts stop fielding food questions by day one. Separate prep for allergens runs underneath everything.
The eleven standard dietary flags (vegetarian through diabetic-friendly) nest inside the protocol families, so a detox week with two celiac guests and a nut allergy is a solved problem before the contract.
Sourcing for protocol weeks
Sourcing is named, not implied: goat cheese from Kunana Dairy, greens from the Saturday Hanalei Farmers’ Market and its growers, Kauaʻi grass-fed beef, day-boat fish when the boats go out. Deep-protocol sourcing — specific superfoods, out-of-season asks, particular suppliers — is quoted honestly in the groceries-at-cost line with receipts.
Honest limits
We are cooks, not clinicians: we execute your practitioner’s or program’s specification precisely and label it honestly — but protocol design belongs to your program, and medical claims belong to no one’s menu. That boundary is part of the product’s integrity.
Questions, answered
Ayurvedic-fluent, executed to your program’s specification: kitchari days, mono-diet phases, warm and spiced per the notes. We follow the program document precisely and label every dish.
It moves within the published band: deeper protocols with specialized sourcing sit toward the $300+/person/day end; clean omnivore weeks sit lower. The written quote shows exactly where your program lands.
Mixed tables are the norm — the protocol line and the omnivore line run alongside, both labeled. Nobody eats a visibly lesser plate.
Keep reading
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- service The rental has a kitchen. Use it.
- service Dinner for two, priced as dinner for two.
- service The week, cooked ahead.
- service Learn the island’s food in your own kitchen.
- service The tasting menu, without the dining room.
- service The kitchen is the room.
- service The honeymoon table, without the reservation app.
Get a written quote
One contract, every meal, dietary depth included. The written quote is the confirmed total.