Lavender-Impressed Dishes from First Watch Cafe

Transfer over fruits — as a result of flowers are having a second!

Floral-inspired drinks and dishes are popping up seemingly in every single place this season — from Starbucks bringing again its wildly widespread lavender drinks to Meghan Markle that includes edible flowers in her new Netflix collection With Love, Meghan.

PEOPLE spoke with Chef Shane Schaibly, senior vp of culinary technique at First Watch Cafe, to be taught extra about this visually interesting taste development, in addition to why it’s change into such a staple within the restaurant’s many nationwide places.

“Lavender is tremendous fashionable proper now, and it’s good for spring,” Schaibly tells PEOPLE. “However this really isn’t our first time serving it. We first used lavender in our Purple Haze juice — a lavender lemonade — as a seasonal menu merchandise in 2021, and its instant success confirmed its potential.”

And what could possibly be higher than a lavender-inspired lemonade? A spiked model.

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“We made Purple Haze a full-time menu merchandise in 2022, and shortly after, we knew we needed to spike it, which is when our Spiked Lavender Lemonade was born,” Schaibly continues. 

Lavender-inspired menu objects don’t cease at drinks. Schaibly says that First Watch Cafe additionally serves an immensely widespread — and Instagrammable — French toast paired with a “vibrant lavender whip.” He explains that the key to the dish’s intense colour is blue-hued butterfly pea flower tea, which he notes can also be a “rising star” within the craft cocktail scene.

“We wished a dish that was visually beautiful but additionally scrumptious, so we paired it with recent berries and our signature berry compote,” he provides.

Schaibly — who notes that First Watch rotates its menu 5 instances per yr in an effort to spotlight the freshest substances of the season — says that the chain sometimes checks out greater than a dozen dishes a day when within the menu growth part. Nevertheless, he says, “we knew we had one thing particular for our prospects” as quickly because the Wild Berry Lavender French Toast hit the desk.

“Everybody grabbed their telephones to take an image,” he remembers.

Eager to attempt one or all of First Watch’s seasonal lavender choices? The Purple Haze, the Spiked Lavender Lemonade and the Wild Berry Lavender French Toast might be on the restaurant’s menu by way of Could 26. 

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