A Look Ahead....at 2016
This year we celebrate our 7th Anniversary!!!!!
Our community celebration will be held on Sunday, January 24th from 3pm-5pm. We provide the entertainment and complimentary appetizers. Guinea Mountain Boys will be return for their 7th year playing for our Anniversary. They have helped us celebrate every year since we've been open and the traditions continues.... We hope you'll celebrate with us! Wednesday, January 20th, many of our former staff will be dropping in to say hi to you and reminiscing over the past seven years.
We broke out our new dishes. When I returned to visit Portugal last year, I went to visit a pottery factory and fell in love with dishes from a beautiful little village called Caldos da Rainha. My friend Sara Godinho's mother was from this little town and knew all of the places I needed to visit to see what possibilities there were for the dish transition at the restaurant. It's taken me a year to make it happen but we revealed our new dishes last week. I hope you find them as beautiful as I do.
Out and about
This year we'll be expanding our presence outside of Eggleston. We'll be at the Blacksburg Farmers Market (weather permitting during January & February), then we'll be joining the Pulaski Farmers Market on Tuesdays in May.
We'll be catering more events and attending more outdoor festivals around the region.
Eggleston Gazette
We didn't quite pull if off last year as promised but will have if ready early this year.
New Promotions coming your way!! Tell Us Tuesdays - every week, we'll have three food options for you to vote on and the winning vote will be on the menu the next Tuesday. Last week's vote brought back the original Pork Chop. You can vote in person at The Palisades or reply to surveymonkey on twitter and facebook. We've also got Wild Card Wednesdays - bringing surprise guests, musicians, variety shows or themed food features and anything else fun we may be able to think of to Wednesday nights. Wines Around the World will kick off in conjunction with Wild Card Wendesdays starting January 27th.
New Website Design should be up by the end of April. It will be more user friendly and give us opportunity to showcase the many things we as well as the staff that makes it happen.
Brunch changes
While we can't offer Bloody Marys because we don't have hard liquor, we've come up with the next best thing. Our version will be called Bloody Vultures (named after our resident flying guests) - an alcoholic drink with our new housemade spicy tomato mix and a secret ingredient. Ask your hospitality specialist the next time you join us for brunch. We also now offer espresso, cappuccinos and lattes. We've also raised the brunch price for adults to $15.95. The price for children between 6 &12 remains the same at $7.95 and 5 and under are FREE.
Best of Virginia (voting ends January 22)
While I believe the voting craze for the Best of.... in many areas is fading, I ask that you please vote again for this one. Because it is a statewide magazine, the outreach has helped my business tremendously and we are now more recognized in Northern Virginia, Charlottesville & Richmond. Now when people drop into the area, they has us on their list to visit. It really helps keep public interest in us around the entire state and helps us continue to bring in new guests. Thank you for helping us out again. Our section is at the end...
Celebrity Chef Dinner, March 18th & 19th
Tickets go on sale January 20
$150.00 (includes tax and gratuity)
Portion of proceeds go to the Summer Lunch Program (a local charity) that offers children meals during the summer months when school is out.
Signed on already for this dinner, apart from our very own Head Chef Kevin White and Pastry Chef Devin Giles is:
Edward Carew: Edward Carew is an acclaimed chef with a long and extensive career history, having worked all over the US from the west to the east. Ed has always been passionate about Italian food, taking culinary trips around Italy wherever possible. A graduate of the Culinary Institute of America, Ed’s career began at 4 Star restaurant Spiaggia in Chicago. It was his move to New York City in 1997 that led to a seven year stint working his way through various highly esteemed kitchens. Starting at Gramercy Tavern, Edward worked up to Chef de Cuisine at Fiamma Osteria NYC, rated 3 Stars from New York Times. At Fiamma Ed worked closely with the Executive Chef, Michael White and was responsible for the seasonal menus utilizing NYC’s famous Green Market. In 2005, Ed made his way across to the west coast where he became Executive Chef of the Florio Cafe in San Francisco, executing menus influenced by French, Italian and California cuisines. It was in February 2008 that he made the huge leap of faith and became the Chef/Owner of his own Mediterranean restaurant, Cottage Eatery in Tiburon, focusing on Italian and French produce. Cottage Eatery was considered one of the best restaurants in Marin County, awarded 2.5 stars by the San Francisco Chronicle and similar accolades from various local publications. Finishing up his career in California at Café des Amis as Executive Chef, Ed returned to New York City where he become Executive Restaurant Chef of Le Caprice at Pierre Hotel on the Upper East Side, and then moved on to become Executive Chef/Partner of Spasso in the West Village. Ed is currently working on a new and exciting restaurant project slated to open in the coming year. Ed is surely making his definitive mark on New York City’s vibrant culinary scene.
Steven Brown
Brown is one of the finest homegrown chefs the Twin Cities have produced. Along with his well received and established restaurant Tilia, Brown has just opened his second venture dubbed St. Genevieve. Brown grew up in Custer, South Dakota and got his start in the restaurant business cooking at a Ground Round. It didn’t take long, however, for his talents to emerge, and in the 1990s, he worked everywhere in Minneapolis that mattered: Lucia’s, Café Brenda, and the old Loring Café, where he cooked with his good friend Doug Flicker. Brown soon began captaining his own kitchens, and he developed a reputation as a genius underdog—the hero chef of Generation X, the chef who cooked exquisitely but got fired anyway when the original business plans foundered. At the Local, he was chef when it was haute Irish (but not when it changed to a pub); at the dismal nightclub-wannabe Rock Star, he cooked exceptional rustic European cuisine (at the worst-located restaurant in history); at Restaurant Levain, his breathtaking elaborations of lobster and foie gras had the whole city swooning (until the owner decided a simple bistro would be more profitable); and at Porter & Frye (before it, too, fell on hard times), Brown garnered a Mobil 5 Star rating for such jaw-dropping dishes as a wild-rice soup made with a celeriac bisque and wild-rice grains transformed into grape-sized roasted puffs. Now, finally, he’s got his own place, sharing ownership with Jörg Pierach, the owner of a local marketing company.
The Village
Continually expands. This year the Old People's Bank of Eggleston will be transformed into a Retail & Lodging Property. You may have noticed the new roof!!!! We are fine tuning the retail concept.
2016 Dates
7th Anniversary Celebration - Sunday, January 24th :00pm - 5:00pm
Celebrity Chef Dinner - Friday, March 18th & Saturday, March 19th
The Palisades Outdoor Bash, - Sunday, June 19th
Children's Hospitality & Cooking Camp - 1st session (June 20-June 24); 2nd session (August 1-August 5
Autumn Harvest Dinner - Tuesday, September 20th
