One of my favorite things about the spring is when we get our sidewalk cafe up and planted. Our sidewalk cafe began with a few tables outside, topped with butcher paper and cordoned off by rope hung between home-made stanchions. Well, if you check out stageleft.com, you'll see that we've come a long way, baby. Every year we try to bring an oasis to the downtown. I like to think we make the streetscape nicer for everyone that walks by, not just our diners.
Our friend Tiffany Heater plants all of our fence-boxes and our two gardens. She has a degree in this stuff, but moreover she has a great aesthetic. If you're able to come by soon, check the small elephant ears in the center of the planter. Right now they're about 7 inches tall. By the end of July, they'll be about 5 feet!
It's cafe season again, thank Heaven. I've also stocked the humidor with Gloria Cubanas and Padron Aniversarios and some great little Avos. Don't worry if you're not a smoker, we are so fortunate that the prevailing wind always blows toward the river, which allows us to seat cigar folk down-wind.
SUNDAY we will celebrate our 21st birthday and I hope you will join us. We've hired a couple of friends to play music, and what we just found out is that the fine folks at Veuve Clicquot have joined to help us ramp the festivities. We're going to use Veuve Clicquot (ordered by name in the film Casablanca) to make Champagne Cocktails (drunk like water in the film of the same name), Florissimo Cocktails (from Agostino Perrone in London) and Admiral Russels Punch (recently entioned here in that fantastic Food Arts article that was so kind to us). There will be complimentary a complimentary glass of Veuve Clicquot Champagne when we cut the cake at 5:30. Birthday partyin' just got a whole lot fancier! Some parties have clowns and some have Champagne and cocktails!
We're seating from 1-7 on the sidewalk (weather permitting) and in the bar rooms. Music starts at 3 PM and we cut the cake at 5:30. Attire is casual and we would LOVE to see you! Reserve at 732-828-4444 or online here.
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