Restaurant Update

Sorry, no art to show. The preparations for adding a "day-part" have been all-consuming. Who knew?! We bought the restaurant four years ago as an established breakfast place with a small lunch offering. Over the years we've expanded both the breakfast and lunch menus, but gradually. Now we're starting from scratch -- almost. There's still a breakfast item or two as well as few carry-overs from the lunch menu but the vast majority of it is all new. Not to mention trying to pick a handful of wines to offer to accompany the dishes.

We have made tremendous progress! And it looks like we'll be ready to go on the 18th, just a week behind my original target date. A sample menu is now on the website.

I had to take some pictures the other day to include in a presentation and thought you might like to see what the restaurant looks like now -- it's been a while since I had taken any.

The murals were done by one of our waitresses - she has a fine arts degree from the local university. She'd make a great children's book illustrator, don't you think? If you click on the picture you'll get a much larger view - and maybe even be able to make out Cappuccino, Prega! hanging in the arched recess. Notice the napkins on the table? We get boxes of four different colors - red, blue, yellow and green - that match our plates. We then have the staff sort them so the tables end up with an assortment.

Here's a view of the other half.

More breakfast food and bears on the walls. Carla also did the painting on the far right of the picture. Not sure if you can make it out, but it's a stovetop, counter and coffeemaker. Definitely click on the picture to see the full-size version. There's a couple of small quiltlets hanging on the walls with hopefully more to come any day now ;-)

Thanks for visiting!