Nightingale : The Fourth Quarter
Dearly beloved readers,
A fine morning to you! I hope you are well.
The final quarter of the year is upon us, and as such we’ve made some changes to the menu. You may retrieve a more fully realized, paper copy of our fall menu in the shop, but the most salient changes are the special breads offered each day.
Special Bread Schedule
wednesday : olive
thursday : sweet potato sandwich, roast potato rosemary
friday : walnut pumpkin spice, backcountry
saturday : baker’s choice, sesame baguette, spelt, backcountry, fougasse, rolls: cinnamon raisin walnut, fruit and fennel, cheddar and chile
Further Menu Considerations
We now have rolls available each day of the week. Weekdays it’s olive, cherry chocolate, and cinnamon raisin walnut. Also, the quiche is now comprised of leek, gruyere, and black pepper; we’re giving the mushrooms a break. The scone variety? Spiced apple. And as usual we’re messing around with the coffee we’ve got on tap. It’s promising to be a very fine, balanced and interesting daily drinker.
While I’m hawking our wares, I’ll add that the lunch sandwiches available in the case by 10am are very worthwhile. We have four varieties: smoked turkey, maasdam swiss, dijon, and greens; capicola, provolone, sliced pickle, and greens; sopressata, brie, and romaine; and one we’re calling the Last Rainforest: smoky quick pickled carrots, cucumber, chimichurri, and greens. Sometimes I think $12 is too much for these sandwiches, then I pick one up: no, they’re a steal. We try to make enough to get us to closing time, but sometimes they do sell out early.
Thinking Ahead, Rare for Me
The Thanksgiving menu will be released sometime in the first week of November, but I can tell you that as usual we’ll be open on the eve of the holiday, and then closed for the remainder of that week. The Christmas menu, meanwhile, will be released in the first week of December. After the Christmas pickup on Christmas Eve, we’ll shut down the shop for our annual Winter Recess until midway through January.
It really is a great Autumn out there. Go for a walk in the woods if you get a chance; these days are too darn fleeting. And do me a favor: scoop up an armful of fragrant leaves (preferably maple, if you can find them), give them a squeeze, and take a deep breath of that incense. Ye perfumiers of the world!—yea, though the works of your cunning hands be a dark secret alchemy, a noble magic—be put to shame! You have been defeated.
yours truly,
david