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Posted on December 13, 2009 Posted by Urban Deli

A night in December at the Deli

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 appetizers. We served up roasted garlic and artichoke dip, bacon wrapped scallops and char crusted pork tenderloin. There was also a choice of seafood chowder, spinach salad, caesar salad, or house salad.

For the main course guests had a choice of smoked whole lobster (smoked in house, at the Deli), rack of ribs, smoked herb crusted 1/2 chicken accompanied by rice garlic mashed potatoes or fries (our potato frites).

And for dessert it was a choice of molten chocolate cake, our now famous sour cream lemon pie or a candy cane cheese cake.

We also had some evening musical entertainment provided by Jessica Darrah.

And that was our Saturday night at the Urban Deli. A big thank you to everyone, including our wonderful staff, and a Merry Christmas to Avant-Garde!

The Avant Garde Christmas party at the Urban Deli. That's our Liane on the left and way off in the background you can see Jessica Darrah performing. Photo via Gord's phone.

Posted on December 12, 2009 Posted by Urban Deli

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The Urban Deli has another first

Since we’re still pretty new, we come upon a lot of firsts. Yesterday (Friday) we had yet another one. A couple of our customers, Cyril and Trena, got engaged at the Urban Deli!

It came about this way: the romantic couple have very busy schedules. In fact, they’re so busy it forced Cyril to propose to Trena over a smoked meat sandwich while lunching at the Deli. We’re honored they chose our place for their happy moment. And congratulations to the lucky couple!

Music tonight

By the way, tonight is yet another of our musical Saturday nights. It gets underway at 7:30 with Jessica Darrah. We’ll also have our guy Wes Jagoe and friends. They’ll be dropping in to see what musical confections might be in the air to be had, so there will be a little bit of everything tonight. If you’re in the Uptown area, pay us a visit. We think you’ll like some of the musical notes we’ll be hitting!

Posted on November 30, 2009 Posted by Urban Deli

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Music, snacks and Operation Red Nose

According to Liz, Saturday was a great night with Marvin Rathburn performing at the Deli. If you missed it, we also have music up for this Saturday with Saint John’s Karen Palmer dropping in to perform. If you can, pay a visit and give a listen.

On another note, if you haven’t heard about or are unfamiliar with Operation Red Nose we think it’s a great and welcome idea and think you may want to check it out. “Essentially, it is a volunteer safe ride home service provided during the Holiday Season to all motorists who have been drinking or who do not feel fit to drive their own vehicle.”

We’ll be helping out by providing snacks for volunteers working Friday, December 11th December 4th. Others kicking in to help volunteers do their thing are Burger King, Subway and McDonalds. And every Saturday volunteers can look forward to Copper Penny pizza.

If you’re thinking of being a volunteer, visit the FUSION page and scroll to the info near the bottom.

Posted on November 27, 2009 Posted by Urban Deli

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Stephanie’s torch and our new system

We mentioned that our own Stephanie was one of the torch bearers when the Olympic flame came through Saint John on Tuesday. Well, this is her!

She came by the next day to show us her torch so we made her dress up in her torch carrier outfit and pose outside for a picture or two. From the way she talks, it was a thrilling experience!

On another topic, you may be interested in some of what we’ve been up to behind the scenes. We’ve put in place a new ordering system to help us be a bit quicker and more efficient. So a big thank you to John and the guys from Atlantic Hospitality & Technologies. They came down to help set it up and show us how the darned thing works. As it turns out, it’s pretty easy to use.

Even more interesting is the online ordering system they’re helping us get in place. (It’s part of the whole system.) We don’t have date yet for when it will be in place but it will be soon. Basically, we’ve got to do a little grunt work to put all our menu information into the system. But once done, you’ll be able to order here, at the Urban Deli site. And what will that mean?

For one thing, if you’re thinking take-out, you can just place your order then come in when it’s ready. If you’re having a meeting over lunch and want food to feed everyone, order then just pop in and pick it up or have us deliver it. If you want the Urban Deli to cater an event, party or something else, you can set it all up online. Of course, you’ll still be able to phone us but we think the ease of the online system will appeal to busy people.

So that is one of the things we have in the works. One last thing, if you’re in Uptown Saint John on Saturday night, we have Marvin Rathburn performing here at the Deli starting at 8:00 pm. If you get a chance, pop by!

Posted on November 23, 2009 Posted by Urban Deli

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Online and on target with Uptown Saint John

You may have already heard, Uptown Saint John (or Uptown SJ) has a new site and it’s pretty exciting. If you go there, you’ll see the Urban Deli is in there now. We haven’t populated it with a lot of info and what not yet, but give us time!

So, why should you even care? It depends on whether you, like us, care about Uptown Saint John and all that seems to be going on these days. The Uptown SJ site helps pull everything and everyone together.

For one thing, there is an events calendar to help stay on top of what’s coming up. You’ll find where to dine when you’re uptown (like the Urban Deli!), links to arts, culture, places to stay and so on. You’ll find information on what the Uptown is doing on the environmental front with a link to Green Feet, “the environment committee for Uptown Saint John.” (You’ll also find info on parking and transit.)

What’s fun to watch with a site like this, because it’s so new, is how it grows and develops. Uptown SJ is taking hold of all the social media tools from blogs to Facebook to Twitter and more, and pulling it together so we can all be on top of all the wonderful developments, changes and events happening in Uptown Saint John.

It’s really kind of cool.

(One last thing … you can follow Uptown Saint John on Twitter with @uptownsaintjohn and the Urban Deli with @urbandeli).

Posted on November 20, 2009 Posted by Urban Deli

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A new page for our catering

We should have created a page for the catering side of the Urban Deli a while ago. We’ve actually been doing catering from when we opened, and Liz was even doing it before that. Now, finally, we have a page for it. (You’ll see a catering tab in the navigation up at the top.)

It seemed something we needed to do given the time of year and the various parties, office gatherings and other events and occasions that will be coming up. If you’re the poor soul given the task of setting something up for your office or friends and you’re scratching your head, you can give us a call and we may be able to help you with ideas (506.652.3354).

We also have a few other things in the works to help us be quicker and more efficient but we won’t speak of that until it’s in place. But we’re pretty sure you’ll like it.

Oh, and getting back to catering … as our page mentions, it’s based on our menu but we also go “off menu” depending on what you’re looking for. We’re always up for trying new things!

Catering

If you have wondered whether the Urban Deli does catering, the answer is a definite, “Yes!” We’ve been doing it since we opened. Call us at 506.652.3354.

What we offer is based on our menus (Urban Deli and Italian by Night), but we also go “off menu,” depending on what you are looking for. If you’re not certain what you might like, tell us what kind of an event or occasion you have in mind and we can make suggestions.

We’re also pretty wide open as to what we can cater. Here are a few ideas or examples:

Boardroom meetings
Event(s)
Birthdays
Weddings
Anniversaries
Grand Openings
Special personal occasions
Corporate occasions
House Parties
Good old-fashioned kitchen parties

In other words, if you ask us, “What sorts of things do you cater?” our answer is, “What cha got?” We’re pretty flexible.

It can never hurt to talk so if you have something in mind, give us a call at 506.652.3354 or send us an email or even just drop in for a chat. We’d love to work with you and even provide some ideas, if you would like that.

(You can also contact us for take-out orders at the same number, 506.652.3354.)

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