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Monday, August 31, 2009
Yellow Springs theater audience will choose best Julia Child impersonator
The Little Art Theater and the nearby Winds Cafe are teaming up to have a little fun with the screening of “Julie and Julia” this Friday, Sept. 4.
The theater will host a “Julia Child ‘Fake-Off’” in which contestants are invited to dress as Julia Child and offer a short skit, cooking tip or favorite Julia quote at 7:30 p.m. Friday prior to the 8 p.m. Yellow Springs premiere screening of the movie starring Meryl Streep and Amy Adams. And the audience for the screening will judge the contestants.
Actress Rani Crowe, who portrays a character she calls Julia-Jean Child, will serve as master of ceremonies for the contest and will host a “Cocktails with Julia” cocktail hour at The Winds Cafe beginning at 6:30 p.m.
The Winds is also offering a Julia Child-inspired entree Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday nights this week. Those ordering the entree will receive a $1.50 discount on the “Julie & Julia” screening ticket — $6 rather than $7.50.
For more information about the event, reservations for the cocktail hour or special restaurant entree, contact Mary Kay Smith at mk@windscafe.com or call (937) 767-1144. For more information about the movie screening, contact Jenny Cowperthwaite at latys@sbcglobal.net or call (937) 767-7671.
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TweetTea room set to open tomorrow
DAYTON — Basically British — a specialty shop that imports British candies, foods, teas and gifts — will open a tea room on Tuesday, Sept. 1 as part of an expansion of its business at 502 E. Third St. in the Cannery just east of downtown Dayton.
The Tea Room is adjacent to the Basically British retail shop and was the former reception area for Square One Salon and Spa, according to a news release from the Downtown Dayton Partnership.
The shop is accepting reservations for afternoon tea from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday. In addition to choice of tea, the menu includes a Traditional English Scone with jam and clotted cream, sandwich offerings such as chutney chicken salad on puff pastry and cucumber sandwich with salmon and dill, and dessert offerings such as Orange Cheesecake with Butterscotch Sauce and Chocolate Caramel Shortbread. The cost is $20.95 per person. Service is limited to those 10 and older.
Terry Ronald, co-owner of Basically British, said in the news release that the tea room will seat up to 20 people and “will give the community an opportunity to fully experience the art of afternoon tea.”
Reservations are encouraged and can be made by calling (937) 222-1488.
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TweetRestaurant Week attracted record number of diners
Well, your reviews and mine were overwhelmingly positive, and now the hard numbers confirm what we suspected: summer Restaurant Week was a hit.
The twice-a-year Miami Valley Restaurant Association promotion in which diners can enjoy a three-course meal for $20.09 and the restaurants donate $1 for every special meal sold to a local charity resulted in a total of 19,863 meals sold, according to Amy Zahora, the MVRA’s executive director.
That number shatters all previous one-week Restaurant Week records and is a robust increase from last summer’s Restaurant Week, when about 12,000 meals were sold. It came up just short of the 20,009 meals sold during Winter Restaurant Week in early 2009, when the promotion was extended by a week due to dicey weather during week one and therefore deserves an asterisk in the record books.
Several restaurants saw a “nice-sized increase” from previous Restaurant Weeks, Zahora said. “Buckhorn Tavern doubled their numbers with 507 meals sold, Barleycorn’s also more than doubled with 304 sold, and Fleming’s did a whopping 2,707 meals,” she said.
Winter Restaurant Week — just in case you’re wondering — is scheduled for Jan. 24-29, 2010. But beware the price increase: the meals will cost a penny more, to $20.10.
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TweetFormer Blue Moon is now leased; restaurant may follow
The former Blue Moon Bistro — most recently John Henry’s restaurant — at 524 E. Fifth St. in Dayton’s Oregon District has been leased by a local catering company whose owners are considering a new restaurant for the site.
Beth Hirschbach and Dana Downs are partners in Veritas Foods LLC, which has rented most of the former John Henry’s space and is preparing Italian pasta dishes that they are selling frozen for at-home use under the name “The Black Rooster Gourmet Italian Foods” at the National City 2nd Street Market. The Black Rooster’s offerings — all prepared in the former Blue Moon/John Henry’s kitchens — include several variations of lasagna and other pasta dishes as well as other entrees.
Downs said Black Rooster would like to open a booth at the Second Street market that will allow them to serve meal-sized portions of hot foods (it now offers hot samples of two or three of its frozen take-home meal-size dishes). Veritas Catering can host special events in the former John Henry’s, seating about 50 people with more room on the patio, Downs said. The catering menu is not limited to Italian foods but includes Asian, South American and Mediterranean specialties, she said. Veritas leased the former restaurant’s dining room, kitchens and patio, but not the bar area.
“Down the road, we’d love to open a Mexican restaurant” in the East Fifth Street location, Downs said, although she added that such plans are “perhaps a year or two” away.
Downs, who was trained at Sinclair Community College’s culinary arts program, previously worked at Franco’s and Zola’s; Hirschbach served as banquet manager at Five Seasons Country Club.
For more information, call (937) 603-0333.
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