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

New Year's Day 2010

There is still good availability for our New Year's Day evening buffet dinner. It's a great way to avoid the earlier New Year's Day rush. If you're joining us from out of town a 4:30 start time will ensure there will plenty of time to get back home.

New Year's Day Dinner Buffet

$24.95

Dinner consists of homemade soup, ten vegetable and pasta salads, main entrée of prime rib of beef and baked salmon, hot vegetables, croquette potatoes and served dessert.

Dinner reservations available from 4:30 am to 8:30 pm.

This week's Proudly Northumberland Menu

I haven't posted in a while so I thought I would remedy that with more posts over this week. Our executive chef John O'Leary has a new Proudly Northumberland menu. On the menu we are featuring once again Hoskin's beef. Hoskin's uses hormone free, free range practices and many of our guests have commented that it is some of the finest beef that they ever had.

Warmed White Cheddar and Asparagus Puff Pastry

Cheese from The Empire Cheese Co., Campbellford

Grilled Striploin Steak with Mushroom Brandy Sauce served with Roasted Potatoes and Sautéed Fresh Vegetables

Beef from Hoskins Farm, Grafton

Home Made Deep Dish Pie "A La Mode"

Apples From Big A Brand, Colborne

Three Course $47.00

Christmas arrives at the Woodlawn Inn

This morning the staff and I started to decorate the inn with Christmas ornaments. I pulled out our singing Santa from the storage and Jaana helped mend a loose button on Santa's coat. I'll post a few pictures when I get a moment.

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.

The 2009 Harvest at the Norman Hardie Winery

Norman Hardie Harvest 2009
Jennifer, Sophia and myself had a terrific day helping Norman Hardie with his harvest on Sunday. We arrived at the winery at 10:00 am and were put to work right away. We started the day tying back vine netting and then we mo...ved on to picking Pinot Noir grapes. The grapes were in perfect condition bursting with juice and showing lots of sugar and a really deep colour. The picking was very easy with no berry-rot or bird bites on the bunches. There were so few quality issues that Norm decided not to use a sorting table and just take the whole bunches right to the crusher/de-stemmer. I can't wait to try the wine which will show up in his County Pint Noir 2009 and Cuvee L Pinot Noir 2009.

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