Chaka Khan, the celebrated “Queen of Funk,” has opened a restaurant. Chaka’s Plantbaed Café launched on November 1, 2026, in Serenbe, a community in Chattahoochee Hills, Georgia, southwest of Atlanta. The opening celebration coincided with Serenbe’s annual Hamlet Day festivities.
Khan built the venture with her sister, Tammy Michelle, in partnership with Anne Onyeneho, founder and culinary director of the Atlanta-based Plantbaed brand. The Serenbe café is Plantbaed’s second location and the first to carry Khan’s name. Reports say Khan, who lives in Serenbe, wanted the Plantbaed experience closer to home rather than making the long drive to the existing café.
Onyeneho adopted a plant-based lifestyle in 2018 after a health scare in her family, and went on to build Plantbaed through cookbooks, a meal-prep service and a restaurant. The name is deliberate: there is no “s” in Plantbaed.
The café serves whole-food, plant-based meals. Its signature dish is the Chaka Bowl, a black bean-based creation finished with “Through the Fire” sauce, a nod to one of Khan’s best-known songs. Other offerings include walnut-meat tacos, a Cobb salad, seasonal vegetables and children’s meals built around local produce.
The café’s opening also introduced a charitable component through the Chaka Khan Foundation, which Khan co-founded with Tammy Michelle. The foundation began by supporting women recovering from trauma and substance abuse, and has since grown to include neurodivergent individuals and overlooked communities. Its mission grew out of Tammy Michelle’s experience as a mother raising her son, Tallon.
Coverage of the launch has framed the café as part of that mission, a business meant to promote community inclusion and wellness alongside good food. Coverage I could find does not spell out the details of any employment programme, so those specifics remain to be confirmed.
Khan’s own biography credits her with 11 Grammy Awards, though some outlets count 10. She received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2026. Her business interests have also grown to include a signature fragrance, and her life story is now on stage in the musical I’m Every Woman.
The café is at 11105 Serenbe Lane, Suite 100, Chattahoochee Hills, Georgia. For a woman who spent decades turning fire into music, this new chapter shows she is just as comfortable turning it into a plate of food.
