Come See Us At The Cobourg Farmer's Market This Saturday

Chef John and myself will be at the Cobourg Farmer's Market this Saturday May 22nd. We will be there from from 8:00 am until 11:00 am and while supplies last, we will be offering a free sampling of Hoskins Farms beef on a homemade baguette with arugula and heirloom tomato.

Also for those that that sign up to our Friends of the Woodlawn mailing list on that day, we will be drawing a $100.00 Woodlawn Inn gift certificate. For our existing "Friend's", mailing listers we'll also be drawing a gift certificate as well! We hope to see you there!

Pictured, Woodlawn Inn Executive Chef John O'Leary

See Our New Menu On The Woodlawn Inn Website

Cobourg Farmer's Market

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The Woodlawn Inn is mentioned in today's National Post newspaper

Spring! It's spring! At last! Which means our thoughts have swerved a full 180-degrees to images of love - and not only love, but lust, too, of the wandering kind. Last week we contacted Weekend Post's regular roster of travel mavens for their counsel on where we should go for a three-or four-day getaway. This week we present a variety of trips to Ontario and Quebec. In the weeks that follow we'll feature brief interludes from other Canadian destinations.

If you like a town that has kept its yesterday, isn't tarted up by nouveau pretension, has a sparkling beach a minute's walk from one of Ontario's most beautiful buildings and doesn't give you three days' jet lag when you get back home, I have a suggestion: Cobourg, a pleasant drive east of Toronto, where I spent a few days a while back, walking streets with houses that are part of a jewelled past, when the town - its heyday was in the late 1800s - was so popular that many rich Americans built summer mansions here.

Some still stand, most near the intersection of Division and King. But the most eye-appealing legacy is a building that some years ago was within a heartbeat of the wrecking ball. It's Victoria Hall, opened by the Prince of Wales in 1860. Town council meets there in a magnificent old court room, there's a concert hall and art gallery, but just standing outside and looking up calms the spirit. It's just a stroll from Woodlawn Inn where I stayed, run by the Della Casa family with culinary quality and inn-keeping charm. There's more: In Cobourg you're within minutes by car from Port Hope, so consider a visit to its restored 1930s theatre where, among upcoming productions is nostalgic Queens of Country Music, with renditions of Patsy Cline, Tammy Wynette and Dolly Parton.

z Cobourg: cobourgtourism.com. Port Hope's Theatre: capitoltheatre.com.

Story by Kenneth Bagnell, Weekend Post Published: Friday, April 09, 2010

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The Woodlawn Inn hosts the Bring To Light Photography conference 2010

BRING TO LIGHT 2010 Photography Conference April 16 - 17

You are invited to join us at the Bring To Light photography conference to be held in Cobourg on April 16, 17, 2010. Produced by the volunteers from the Northumberland Photography Club, this year,
the photography conference will be held at The Woodlawn Inn and at the Cobourg Public Library. The event features a cocktail reception with
snacks and a keynote address by Richard Martin on Friday evening. Saturday morning features a morning workshop with Richard Martin, an included lunch, an afternoon lecture with Humber College's Neil Fox on the history of photography and a portraiture workshop with Photographer Cindy Taylor.

Tickets are priced at $125.00 for the two day event. The event always sells out.

For guests that wish to stay in overnight in Cobourg, special rates have been offered at The Woodlawn Inn. The rates start at $116.00
double, including breakfast.

For tickets, please contact Stephen Della Casa at The Woodlawn Inn.

http://www.northumberlandphoto.ca/workshop.htm

richardmartinphoto.com

woodlawninn.com

BRING TO LIGHT 2010 Photography Conference April 16 - 17

Friday April 16

6 to 7pm

Reception

THE WOODLAWN INN, Cobourg

Ticket includes light snacks, fruit & cheese, non

alcoholic beverages, coffee, tea & cash bar.

7 to 9pm Keynote Speaker - Richard Martin

Saturday April 17

9 to 11am

Workflow - Richard Martin

Cobourg Public Library

11:15 am to 1pm

History of Photography - Neil Fox

Professor Humber College - Toronto

Cobourg Public Library

1 to 2pm

Lunch is provided (catered)

Cobourg Public Library

2 to 4pm

Walking Workshop - Richard Martin

Outside

4:30 to 6

Perfect Portraits - Cindy Taylor

Cobourg Public Library

Tickets $125.00

For tickets please contact Stephen Della Casa. Stephen@Woodlawninn.com

or 905 372-2235 x 112

United Way Recognition Breakfast

Tomorrow morning wraps up the 2009-10 Campaign for the United Way of Northumberland. Both Jennifer and myself are going to a recognition breakfast paid for by our good friends at the Best Western Cobourg. Thank you Wilcox's! We were thrilled to be a part of the campaign and between our two fundraisers and additional financial support we are happy to announce that The Woodlawn Inn contributed over $7000.00 this year.

Community Business Meet & Greet on March 9th

Are you a local Chamber member of would like to become one? We are hosting the next meet and greet with the Northumberland Central Chamber of Commerce on Tuesday, March 9th and we hope you can make it. Our chefs will be dishing out some great complimentary home made hors d'oeuvres and there will be some drink specials as well. The time is from 5:00 to 8:00. See you there. Cost: FREE, Cash Bar.

The End Of Eat Smart!

Last week I was informed that our local health unit the HKPR Health Unit was discontinuing its support for Eat Smart citing lack of funding from the province of Ontario. The program was created to recognize restaurants that offered a smoke free, healthy food choices environment. The Woodlawn Inn was a recipient since the program launched in Northumberland about eight years ago. We will continue to offer our guests low-fat, reduced-calorie delicious menu options like we have in the past an we welcome the return of Eat Smart or any other program with similar objectives.

The United Way Lunch Today

Thank you everyone for your generous support at the luncheon today. We raised about $3500.00. The winning tickets are 0784243 for the broach and 0784343 for the overnight inn getaway. Congratulations to Mrs Brown for winning the inn getaway gift certificate and to Jan Boycott for winning the broach. I hope to see everyone here next year.

Savoury Celebrations, Cobourg's Restaurant Week is back

Here is the press release from the town

"Savoury Celebrations"

Celebrate Cobourg’s Culinary Delights

Celebrate Cobourg’s culinary delights and take advantage of prix fixe offers at seven of Cobourg’s restaurants from February 2 - 6 leading up to Cobourg Winter Festival, February 13 & 15, 2010. Each participating restaurant will offer a special 3-course prix fixe menu. The prix fixe menus are available for dinner only.

A special menu at each of the restaurants have been prepared by their chefs and will include an appetizer, entrée and dessert. (Beverages, taxes & gratuity additional).

Meals are $25 for dinner. Participating restaurants are listed below. RESERVATIONS ARE HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

Menu

Appetizers

Roast carrot purée with crème fraîche

Salad greens with pear, candied walnuts, Asiago, and apple vinaigrette

Fried brie with lingonberry coulis

Entrées

Salmon

Atlantic salmon with cucumber-melon salsa and basmati rice

Breast of Chicken

Pan roasted chicken breast with spinach and herb spatzle and roasted tomatoes

New York Striploin

Grilled New York strip loin au jus with crispy onions, grilled vegetables and oven roasted potatoes

Mushroom Ravioli

Hand-made, mushroom ravioli tossed with pesto-tomato sauce with Reggiano cheese

Desserts

Crème brûlée with pansarole

Chocolate espresso cake with raspberry sauce

Warmed apple pie with French vanilla ice cream

25.00

Taxes extra, gratuities at your discretion

The Woodlawn Inn's Lunch For The United Way 2010

Once again, we are pleased to give the Northumberland United Way a helping hand with a great lunch at The Woodlawn Inn! We donate 100% percent of the lunch, that's 20.00 for every guest that joins us to the Northumberland United Way campaign. The early seats are fully booked but there is currently space available at 1:30 and at 2:00 pm. We hope you can join us with your co-workers, friends and families. Lets make our 2010 lunch another sell-out!!

Menu

Bouquet of Greens

Mixed salad greens with enoki mushrooms, cucumber, mandarin orange,

toasted cashews with ginger sesame vinaigrette.

Involtini

Roulade of strip-loin of beef stuffed with mushrooms, pine nut and spinach with a merlot reduction served with gnocchi and bacon wrapped asparagus

Chocolate Mouse & Berries

Chocolate mousse in a Belgian chocolate cup with crème Anglaise and

fresh berries

January 27th, 2010,

Reservations only available at 1:30 pm or 2:00 pm

$20.00 Plus Tax

Reservations 905 372-2235