We’ve got floats. Root beer floats. Courtesy of the Pump House people. This is Ashley holding a couple of them. And we’re looking forward to having Pump House’s cream soda and blueberry soda shortly. (We’ll need more hands then.)
If you’re interested in seeing some of our other “Beverages & Deserts,” pay a visit to our Flickr page. And for even more, take a stroll through our photos on Facebook.
We’ll be doing something a little different for Canada Day. The Urban Deli will be closed, but kind of open too. Here’s what we’re doing:
The restaurant will be closed. However, we’ll have a stand directly outside our front doors selling food and cold drinks (alongside the other vendors).
We’re taking it to the streets, so to speak.
We’ll start off with breakfast sandwiches at 9:00am (served on an english muffin) and also have our own scratch lemonade, home-made ice tea and other cold drinks available. If you like samosas, we’ll have those too (not made by the Deli) — five different kinds of samosas that include beef, chicken, lamb, vegetarian and sweet potato.
Once the breakfast sandwiches are either sold out or 11:00am hits, we’ll be switching it up and selling our pulled pork & slaw on an english muffin.
We’re normally closed on Sundays and holidays so all of us (our staff) can enjoy the days, but this time we wanted to be there in Uptown Saint John. It’s Canada Day and we expect the Uptown to be hopping.
And who in their right mind would want to miss a Canada Day in the Port City?
You can get mustard at many stores. But rather than leave the kitchen, we make our Urban Deli mustard in-house. Like so:
With our mustard, we like to put it on a sandwich, in this fashion:
When we’re done, it looks like this:
That would be our Original Montreal Style Smoked Meat. We serve it with a dill pickle spear and our coleslaw.
And that’s a day in the life of mustard. 🙂
(You’ll find more Urban Deli photos on our Facebook page.)
Yippie kay ay! The Uptown Saint John’s 2010 Live Life Awards shortlist has been announced and the Urban Deli finds itself nominated in three categories. Thank you Saint John! (Apologies to Bruce Willis for the “Yippie kay ay!” but it’s from the old cowboys and basically means, whoo hoo!)
We find the Deli in these categories:
This is thrilling for us. Now the countdown is on to June 24th (Thursday) to see if we can bring home the big prizes.
A big thank you to everyone who recommended us and a “hats off” salute to the other nominees (who are probably as thrilled as we are).
Once again, thank you Saint John! We’re looking forward to a fabulous evening. We love it here and it’s wonderful to be back home!
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 places to eat in Saint John’s Uptown, we’re thrilled to be one of them. This isn’t a competition so much as it’s a celebration of what we have and what we’re building on in the Uptown.
By the way, there will be a ceremony June 24 at the Saint John Theatre Company. You can get information on it, as well as information on getting a ticket to the event, by visiting the 2010 Live Life Awards web site. In their words, “… we’re having a party.”
In the meantime, if you want to nominate a restuarant, the place to go is here (simply add it as a comment).
One last note … Urban Deli also qualifies in a couple of other categories. Such as New Business of the Year (we opened last July) and Commercial Space of the Year. If you want to toss a nomination our way, we’d love to get it!
(Photo of the Urban Deli is by Beaver Smith, bigdayfoto, Saint John.)
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 (and if we could accommodate that).
But it’s settled now. (Until we start tweaking again!) And we have it online as a .pdf file.
Now, when you go to our menu page or when you take a gander at our right column under menu, you’ll see the link.
Apologies for taking so long in getting it up but we wanted to get it right. We think we have now.
But of course, you’ll be the judge. 🙂
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 article is absolutely wonderful, though admittedly we’re not really objective on this one. 🙂
We’ve been a bit silent online recently (this happens every so often). If you read the piece in the paper, you may get a sense of why. Quite often we get so busy with the business of the restaurant we neglect the business of the Deli online.
We plan to get that changed and get the stream flowing again soon.
