Valentine’s Day Menu
Posted by: snowcitycafe at lunch time.
Filed under: special events
Dinner
Appetizer choices
• Roasted Red Pepper, Garlic and Chevre on Baguette
• Rustic Squash Tarts
• Wild Mushroom Risotto with Seared Scallops
Salad/Soup choices
• Spinach Salad with bleu cheese crumbles, almonds, dried cranberries, and raspberry vinaigrette
• Mixed Organic Greens tossed with grape tomatoes, foccacia croutons and balsamic vinaigrette
• Seafood Chowder
Entrée choices
• Polenta with Roasted Winter Vegetables and Jus
• Ciopinno with prawns, scallops, crab, cod, and clams in tomato, basil, and pepper broth and a polenta crouton.
• Roasted Chicken Breast with Leek and Fresh Herb Stuffing served with au gratin potatoes and roasted asparagus
• Pork Loin Medallions topped with greens and crispy shallots in a whole grain mustard sauce served with au gratin potatoes and roasted asparagus
Dessert
Three choices to be determined
Kids’ Menu
Appetizer choices
• Homemade Soup
• Cold Veggie Platter
Entrée choices
• Grilled Cheese Sandwich
• Homemade Crispy Chicken Strips
• Macaroni & Cheese
Dessert
Valentine’s Day Benefit Dinner
Posted by: Laile at breakfast time.
Hey Friends & Lovers!
In response to the random shootings that happened last December, Snow City Cafe is hosting a benefit dinner on Thursday, February 14, Valentine’s Day. All proceeds will be donated to Elizabeth Rumsey, Tamas Deak and the Jason Wenger Memorial Writing Award. Our staff is also donating their time and tips.
There will be two seatings – 5:30 PM and 7 PM. $40 for adults, $10 for kids. Very kid-friendly, family event.
The special 4-course menu will be announced on our website on January 31.
Make your reservations by calling 272-3239 or e-mail Melissa@snowcitycafe.com. We have 100 spots to fill for each seating.
Wednesday Nights
Posted by: Laile at lunch time.
Snow City Cafe has decided to discontinue providing a venue for Irish Music night every Wednesday. Our last traditional Irish Music session was 11/21/07. The event seems to have run its course here especially now that there are more options for everyone to go to. We’ve enjoyed the music, the dancing and especially the people. We’ll be very sad when it ends because it’s the end of an era at Snow City. It’s been really fun for our staff and we’ve been happy and proud to be a part of such a joyous event.
Reduce, Reuse and Recycle!
Posted by: snowcitycafe at lunch time.
Filed under: general
5th Annual West End Block Party!
Posted by: Laile at brunch time.
Snow City Cafe, along with Simon & Seafort’s, The Coordinators and PangoMedia, are hosting the 5th Annual West End Block Party on Thursday, August 2, 2007, 4:30 - 8:30 PM. This block party includes live music, food and Simon’s famous Margarita Garden! Everyone is invited!
We close off the block between 4th Avenue and L Street—you’ll see the tents, stage and balloons! Hector and El Combo Tropicale Latino will be playing. Free parking in the Captain Cook Parking Garage.
Chugach Celebrates 100th Birthday at Snow City Cafe!
Posted by: Laile at breakfast time.
The Chugach National Forest turns 100 on Monday, July 23! To celebrate, the Alaska Center for the Enviroment is hosting a dinner at Snow City Cafe. The Wild Chugach Centennial Dinner will be a four course meal featuring Copper River Sockeye salmon and locally grown produce. Tickets are only $35 and includes wine and specially brewed for this evening, Moose’s Tooth special Centennial ale. For tickets and information, valerie@akcenter.org or 274-3662.
Are You Ready for the Summer?
Posted by: snowcitycafe at after hours.
We’re ready! Last year, we were just finishing up our remodel construction and not ready for the crowds, which came in record numbers. But this year, we are staffed up and ready to go. We’re going to start off with a bang—the International Whaling Commission is taking over the Captain Cook Hotel for the month of May. This a huge deal for Anchorage—most of the downtown hotels are sold out. K Street will be closed the last week of May to handle media tents and conference overflow. Greenpeace will be here. They’re having a family oriented parade on Sunday, 5/27—walking twice around the Captain Cook Hotel and then heading to the Park Strip to form a whale by all holding hands. Anyway, we hope to be busy this May. But don’t worry, we always have room for you!
Great weekend!
Posted by: Laile at lunch time.
Ever since I had kids, I usually work Mon - Fri, but once a month I work a weekend and this was it. I really enjoy the energy of the weekend; it’s very different than the rest of the week. We were very busy—it almost felt like summer busy. Lots of great compliments on our staff which is really nice. I always get a little anxious when I hear that someone wants to talk to a manager, but this weekend I had a number of people pull me aside to say what a great server they had or how the host really helped them out. Also, I had a server say that he’s worked at probably 13 restaurants and he thinks our food expediters are the best. Yay Lisa and Jackie!! (The food expediter is the person who gets the food that the kitchen is putting out all organized and ready for the server. She makes sure that the toast is ready, the soup is on the right plate and all food modifications are done to order. She is the liaison between the servers and the kitchen. It can be a very high pressure job!)
Our Call Ahead Wait List system seems to be working but it still causes aggravation for some people. This is how it works—you call ahead and we put you on our waiting list. We try and give you an estimate for how long it’s taking for people to be seated so that you know when to come in. Once you come in, you check in with the hostess and we’ll give you a pager. If we’ve estimated correctly and you’ve shown up when we told you, you will most likely be seated within 10 - 15 minutes. Sometimes our estimates are wrong (people are sitting longer than we anticipated or we got a sudden surge of people come in) and sometimes people show up earlier than we estimated. So it’s not an exact science but it does work most of the time. Try it next weekend! (Call 272-3233 instead of 272-2489 if you want to avoid the long automated voice message.) It’s usually not necessary to call ahead during the week, only weekends, but starting in May it will probably be busy enough, so call ahead Mon - Fri too. Waits for a table were about 45 minutes this weekend. Worth the wait, I promise!
Well it’s 7:11 PM. Time to head home. Fun while it lasted but I’m ready to go back to Mon - Fri for awhile. —Laile
New website!
Posted by: Laile at breakfast time.
Today is the big day for our new website! It’s been fun working with Taughnee Stone at Endeavor Creative to make this happen. I don’t think we changed the content on our old website for three years and now we’ll be changing it weekly. Obviously our weekly specials will be updated but we’ll also have this blog available to tell you about the latest happenings at Snow City. We’ll also post employee and customer photos and hope you will feel free to post your comments and photos of you wearing Snow City gear.
So here’s what’s happening this week...this Friday, 4/6, is the Art Gallery Walk. We’ll be featuring the work of Julie Bourbeau. She does some really cool mixed media, which includes painted aluminum, to make brightly colored fish wall hangings. The show is 5:30 - 8 PM and we’ll have appetizers so come on out. Also, every Wednesday night, the Irish musicians and dancers come to the cafe for Traditional Irish Music Sessions. We had some great posters made by MadDog Graphx to start promoting this event again. We haven’t done any advertising in years and the usuals that come every Wednesday want to see some new faces so come on down!
Next Sunday is Easter. This is a great day to come to the cafe because we are typically not very busy. Everybody likes to go to the big fancy champagne brunches and we end up kind of slow. The servers are planning on wearing flowery dresses and bonnets just for fun (they like to dress up every so often—last time was Pajama Day). I think we’re having some Easter specials, I’ll know for sure later today, and we have a new champagne drink that the staff loves—the Snow City Royale—Odwalla Pomogranite Juice, champagne and raspberry crumbles. Yum City!
Well, I’ve got to get back to work. This is my first blog ever. Be kind. —Laile
