Back in Business!

We held our "Soft Opening" on Memorial Day.  Anyone in the retail/restaurant business recognizes the term - a "pre-opening event" where a select group of people (traditionally friends and family who are typically more patient) are invited to give the new establishment an opportunity to work out the kinks before they open on a grander scale.

Truth be told we had actually planned on construction being done well before May 27th.  This turned out to be...not quite the case.  Didn't matter too much though.  Enough of the kitchen was working so that Gerry was able to prepare his ribs in the beautiful new REALLY LARGE oven AND still bake chicken (both for finishing up on the BBQ grill).  We are both still amazed that he could get THREE FULL STEAM-TABLE SIZED PANS in JUST ONE OVEN!!!  (I regret neither one of us thought to snap a photo of that!)

Even if everything wasn't perfectly ready for the grand opening, it was just fun having everyone over and getting some vital last minute input (thanks Dan - we've elected to NOT have the "feet" installed on either the island or by the sink!).  We've missed not being able to entertain all of you for the past few months and appreciate

your patience as we took some time for this project.  Both Gerry and I look forward to how much more fun it's going to be with all this new-found "room to groove"!


~later, "already planning the next event" tw