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Cooking class – a new first for Urban Deli

by Urban Deli on March 29, 2010

A group of twenty or so people convened at the Urban Deli on a sunny Sunday afternoon on March 14th to participate in the first cooking class hosted by UD. The restaurant is normally closed on Sundays, but Liz decided to open up for a few hours to host this reservation-only event. Bob McVicar was [...]

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Cooking class at the Urban Deli

by Urban Deli on March 1, 2010

We’re going to try something a little different. We have a cooking class coming up on March 14th with ‘Chef Bob.’ That would be Saint John’s Bob McVicar and the date is for a Sunday, when we’re normally closed. And the subject of the class? Italian cabbage rolls.
This will be a ‘reserved seating only’ class [...]

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A night in December at the Deli

by Urban Deli on December 13, 2009

It’s the season for get-togethers and last night we hosted Avant-Garde Construction and Management Inc. for their Christmas party. If you look at the photo below you’ll see they were seated at our long communal table.
What kind of food might be involved at a Christmas party at the Urban Deli? For Avant-Garde it began with [...]

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A little history on our communal table

by Urban Deli on July 26, 2009

We’ve found quite a few people interested in the story of our communal table. Where’s it from? Who made it?
Gord, who has been one of the stalwart people behind getting the deli up and running, put together a bit of information on the table for us.
Apart from the food, one of the most unique aspects [...]

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Going local in New Brunswick

by Urban Deli on June 22, 2009

To the extent that we can, we’d like to do things locally — as in eastern Canada and, more specifically, New Brunswick.
Now, you when you think “coffee” you may not immediately think New Brunswick – but you should!
Last week, one of the many things we did was get our coffee machine in place. The machine [...]

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Our communal table

by Urban Deli on June 12, 2009

Liz is particularly excited about the Urban Deli’s communal table (sometimes referred to as a “sharing table”). And what’s a communal table? As the name suggests, it’s a table where anyone and everyone can sit down to enjoy, not simply the food, but each other’s company. Some people are reluctant to try it because it’s [...]

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