Dining at Our Table

The restaurant business continues to improve. Brunch is taking off, Mothers Day was a smash success, although the Hollandaise sauce broke... Weeknights are steady and getting busier.  Friday and Saturday are busy. With Friday night taking off it feels on the one hand like we did the right thing moving the wine tastings to Thursday night. But, on the other hand, the Thursday wine tastings are much less robust than they were when we held them on Friday.  Perhaps when the weather improves and the outside tables are more appealing we can have a wine tasting on Friday and still be open for dining.

As the days lengthen our approach to the evening business changes. We are going to take some steps to energize the wine bar. We have had live music on a few occasions and people have really enjoyed these evenings. There is a Small Plate & Smackeral Menu that is currently handed out in the wine bar. We think we will grow this menu for the light and late night dining crowd.

We have some great beers and some of the local beer aficionados have discovered us. In fact, we are beginning the work to put together a beer tasting involving local, private brewers. We may even host a juried competition. Some of our customers who are also brewers will be helping us put these events together. Yahoo.

The patisserie part of the business has been weak. This is our fault. Janet has just not been working hard enough. Sometimes she leaves before 11 pm and then we don’t see her again until 8 in the morning. What kind of way is this to run a business?  Anyway, we have to play the hand we are dealt.  So we have a plan in the works to add a super-star baker to our staff. We’ll keep you posted.

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