Dear Friends,

SUNDAY NIGHT UPDATE
When we first planned Valentine’s Weekend, I assumed that pretty much everyone would want to celebrate the holiday on Saturday evening – Sunday is a school night. So I when Kara and I discussed booking them to sing, Saturday night seemed the logical time. But, I figured I’d send out an email just to check for interest about serving a few dinners on Sunday evening, though I doubted there would be enough response to justify opening. Boy, was I ever off base on that.

We have a few reservations for Saturday, but we’ve been inundated with requests for Sunday evening. Given that this is the case, Kara & Austin have been nice enough to play a second evening. They will sing songs of love, loss, and absurdity – which puts me in mind of the limo driver in Spinal Tap. I believe he said something like – “these kids today…. you know, they haven’t loved and lost like Frank.” If I’m not mistaken, K&A may sing a song or two that Frank used to sing. They’ll start about 7pm and there there will be no cover – it’s our Valentine’s gift to you. (So – that’s 9pm on Saturday, $10, and 7pm on Sunday, no cover.)

MENU
We’ve got a couple of new things on the menu that are cold weather and Valentine’s inspired. First – we do plan to offer a prix fix option. As it stands now, this will include a salad (featuring, if I understand this correctly, mesclun mix, romaine, parsley, mint, and fresh celery leaves), a second course of wild mushrooms with thin sliced parmesan, a main course of that will be a mixed seafood (gulf shrimp, pei mussels, drum, and maybe squid…) pasta dish, and a choice of desserts that will include our butterscotch budino, a warm strawberry shortcake, and a new chocolate mousse tart that we’re working on.

And/or come in tonight and try a couple of new items. Out bison pot pie is a response to Matthew Lee’s request for “shepherds pie” – eating ours last week, he looked rather disappointed and asked where were the peas and why didn’t it have a crust? Uhmm, I don’t know Matthew – and I certainly don’t want to get in the middle of all this, but – Ben Willcott says that’s not shepherds pie at all – if it has peas and a crust, that would be pot pie. I don’t have a dog, er.. pie in this fight, so I’m staying out of it. BW says he hates peas, but he will make ONE pot pie with peas that he is saving for Mr. Lee. The gauntlet is down, Matthew. But I do believe that shepherds pie is the one with the potatoes on top – pot pie has the crust…

Tonight’s menu will post about 5:30pm – the final menu for Valentine’s will post on Saturday afternoon after Ben has a chance to shop the markets.

Come join us,

Murph