Thank you for yesterday, today and tomorrow

If our posts read a bit schmoozy these days it’s because we have oodles of people to thank and we’re a bit giddy with all that has been happening.

Yesterday we opened and now that we’re in business it’s time to get down to the real business of serving up food and being a rock solid restaurant people want to come back to. You could probably call the next little while our “beta” phase as we tweak this and that and make changes based on the feedback we get.

As we’ve probably mentioned, there are far too many people to thank to list. We’ve had so much help and so many good wishes it’s more than a little humbling. Liz would like to mention Hillary (the Urban Deli’s manager), Alan and Eli (the guys cooking up the food – that’s Eli in the picture) and everyone in the kitchen and on the floor helping her provide the best service possible (one of her obsessions).

You’ll notice that while it took a while to get our menu posted, it’s now up and in a number of formats. There’s the Menu page. Then there’s the “prettified” .pdf format (in the right hand column), part one and part two. And then there is one other .pdf format version, that is strictly a text version for a printer friendly version.

If you’re scratching your head about desserts (like My Saint John was), that is a work-in-progress (the downside of a beta phase). But they are coming – we hope to have those available in about a week.

If you have some time, please pay us a visit today. Drop by for a bite!

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Yes, today is the day

We open today. It’s hard to believe that after all this dreaming and all this talking and all the decisions – not to mention all the hard work everyone has put in – but, yes, it has arrived. Today we open!

Doors will be open at 11:00 this morning and we’ll be anxiously waiting.

If you would like, you can have a look at the Urban Deli menu. (The link is in the navigation at the top as well.)

We haven’t had a chance to put the “prettified” version up yet in a .pdf format but we will soon. For now, we just have the information up on the page plus a “plain jane” version available in .pdf format that is printable, if that’s what you choose to do.

Hope we get a chance to see you sometime today and you can help us populate those tables you see in the picture!

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It has only been quiet online

One of our Urban Deli images.If we’ve appeared to have become oddly quiet it has only been here, on the site. At the Deli it has been anything but. In fact, it’s been a madhouse! But …

It’s been organized, purposeful bedlam as we work to get everything in place for our opening – which is in just a few days! This is Friday? We’ve only 3 days to go before Monday.

Yes, we’re working our buns off (no pun intended).

By the way, we have most of our staff but we are still looking for some help in the kitchen – line cooks and prep cooks. So if that’s your line, or you know someone who might be interested, let us know!

(By the way, all those italics and exclamation marks? That just refects our high level of excitement and the adrenalin running through us. We’re usually much more calm. Really.)

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