Awards time in Uptown Saint John

June 17, 2010

The 2010 Live Life Awards are on and there is a restaurant category where oodles of nominations are flowing in. You can add your voice by dropping in and having your say on the “Best Restaurant of the Year” in the Uptown area.
Of course, we’ve a particular bias.
But there are so many fabulous [...]

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Yes, we’ve got our Saturday breakfast menu up

June 6, 2010

People have asked if we have our Saturday breakfast menu online and until now, the answer has been, “Not yet.” The reason is simple: we hadn’t finalized it. We were tweaking, trying this and that, getting the opinions of people who had come in for breakfast on Saturdays and finding out what they actually wanted [...]

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Liz and the Deli in the Telegraph-Journal

June 3, 2010

Herb Duncan has written a little something up for today’s Telegraph-Journal. It’s called Raising the Bar at the Urban Deli and it’s actually an astonishing piece when you consider that Liz is actually kind of shy about being in the spotlight.
Yes, if you’ve met her that’s a bit hard to believe but it’s true. Herb’s [...]

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Quick note: we’re not open on Monday

May 23, 2010

With it being a long weekend, we’ll be closed on Monday. We’re normally open Monday through Saturday, closed Sundays.
But with the long weekend, we won’t be open Monday (May 24th) so we and the staff can enjoy the time as well. Our apologies if this throws off any plans you had for paying us a [...]

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Seared beef carpaccio with peppercorn mushrooms

April 22, 2010

I loved this recipe!  This is so refreshing and flavorful and worth the few minutes it takes to prepare and serve. It’s taken from: Company’s Coming: Practical Gourmet – Small Plates for Sharing (pages 58 & 59).
(Note: the image shown is an example of carpaccio but not that of the recipe below.)
Seared beef carpaccio with [...]

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Romaine Greek salad with wild-caught shrimp (Oh! And lemonade with vodka)

April 1, 2010

I love making this type of salad, and on the weekend I took full advantage of my time and spent it doing other things rather than cooking.
The dressing:
Acids to oil ratio should be about 1:3 or 4. 1 part acid to 3 or 4 parts oil. I made enough dressing that could have done a [...]

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Good Friday note and a change to our Saturdays

March 31, 2010

This is just a quick note to let you know we’re open on Good Friday from 9am to 3pm. We will be serving a light breakfast from 9am to 11:30am. This is because it’s a holiday Friday.
Looking ahead to Saturday, and every Saturday onward, we’ll open at 9am and serve a light breakfast until 11:30am [...]

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