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

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.

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

United Way Fundraiser This Sunday

There's still room left for Sunday night's United Way fundraising dinner at The Woodlawn. The evening starts out with hors d'oeuvres fabulous cocktails, then sit down to a gourmet dinner and the Flat Rock Pinot Noir & Closson Chase Chardonnay will be flowing. All for $75.00 per person. Call us at 905 372-2235 or 1 800 573-5003 to book your table.

A new Northumberland farmgate guide

This morning I attended the launch of Northumberland County's new farm guide book. Local farmers, restaurateurs, and representatives from local government met at Cobourg's Northside restaurant. This year the guide also features area restaurants that use Northumberland products on their menus. It was great to reconnect with some of our favorite local farmers, producers and I also meet with some new faces in agriculture as well. If you would like to get your hands on a copy of the guide please get in touch with Northumberland County Economic Development & Tourism, 555 Courthouse Road, Cobourg, ON K9A 5J6, Tel: (905) 372-0144

Proudly Northumberland featuring Hoskin Farm

Proudly Northumberland

The Woodlawn Inn is proud to support our neighbours, the men and women working in Northumberland County’s farms, dairies and bakeries.

Three-course menu 45.00

Grilled Mediterranean style bruschetta
Millstone Bakery, Cobourg

Grilled striploin steak au jus with rosti potato
and spring vegetables
Hoskin Farm, Grafton

Bread and butter pudding with apricot glaze
Stirling creamery, Stirling

The Woodlawn Inn recognized by HKPR's Eat Smart Program

We have won the eat smart award again this year! Eat Smart! is Ontario’s Healthy Restaurant Program www.eatsmart.web.net which recognizes smoke-free restaurants for achievement of high standards in safe food handling and nutrition. Restaurants in Northumberland County have been invited to participate annually since the year 2001 and the program has grown consistently since that time. Winners are announced in May, and a promotional campaign follows. Activities include advertisements in local papers, radio and phone books, visibility at community events, and distribution of posters and dining guides throughout the county.

Proudly Northumberland featuring Hoskin Farm

Our new menu is ready! This week we are featuring beef from the Hoskin farm. Gaye Hoskin, his son Chris and their families have been producing free run, hormone injection free beef from their Grafton farm for years. The beef has a clean, sweet flavour and many guests have mentioned that it some of the finest beef that they have ever tried. If you can not make it over to the Woodlawn Inn for this weeks dinner you can always check out Hoskins booth at the Cobourg Farmer's Market.

MENU

Cream of Yukon gold potato and roasted onion soup
Laver’s Farm, Warkworth

Grilled ribeye of beef, topped with peppercorn brandy sauce,
served with red potato rodelles and sautéed spinach
Hoskin Farm, Grafton

Golden honey fritters with vanilla ice cream
River Valley Honey, Stirling

Three-course menu $45.00

Taste Northumberland, A new dining room feature

Over the past few years, farmers, and food producers in Northumberland County have organized themselves to create local awareness of where they are and what they produce. Last year, they put out an excellent guide called the Proudly Northumberland Farm Gate Guide. 

If you want a copy for yourself go http://www.northumberlandcounty.ca/ag_highspeed.asp After looking at the guide, we were very impressed with what we saw, and have decided to feature more local produce on our menu here at the Woodlawn. The selections of Taste Northumberland will change often.

Taste Northumberland
The Woodlawn Inn is proud to offer a three-course menu showcasing the finest produce from Northumberland County’s many farms, dairies, and bakeries 45.00

Mixed greens with aged white cheddar, sliced pears, candied
walnuts and honey-Dijon vinaigrette.
Empire Cheese & Butter Co-Op, Campbellford

Lamb Bourguignon, slow braised with red wine, pearl onions button
mushrooms and served with garlic mashed potatoes.
Burnley Hill Farm, Roseneath

Homemade apple tart with French vanilla ice cream.
The Big Apple, Colborne