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

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.