My favorite blurbs from Steve’s daily email specials.

“Hey-It’s-Spring-And-I-Gotta-Look-Good-In-My-Speedo” Breakfast- Fresh fruit (Pineapple, banana, strawberries, cantaloupe), low-fat vanilla yogurt, and
crunchy granola. $5.95 If you’re nursing a hangover, we can put gravy in your granola.

I remember when we first opened we were pretty slow because, as luck would have it, we opened on the first day of that 2 week freeze in mid-December. A lady was at the bar talking about how she liked the name “Word of Mouth”. I told her, “Yeah, but if we don’t get busy soon, we may change it to “Sign on Building” or “Ad in Newspaper.”

Dinner Specials-
Beef Wellington-
You know those dinners that make you moan with pleasure after each bite? This is one of those. But you won’t be embarrassed because someone at the next table will be doing the same thing. Tenderloin, aka Filet Mignon, cooked to your order enveloped in a tower of puff pastry, mushroom ragout and a dijon demi-glace (See Scratch & Sniff Picture attached) served with soup or salad, vegetable and potato. $19.95
(If you actually scratched and sniffed the picture on your computer screen, stay home on April 1st. Don’t answer the door. Don’t answer the phone. Protect yourself.)

On Tuesday, for a breakfast special, we ran a Chicken Fried Pork Chop & Eggs for $2.95. Oh my gosh, the response was huge and overwhelming. You guys smoked me! I ran out of pork chops in 15 minutes and then switched to Chicken Fried Steaks. But then, the whole griddle, every inch, was covered with Chicken Fried steaks as were 2 big 15″ sauté pans on the burners. There was flour all over the kitchen and all over me from my rushed efforts to feverishly bread all the steaks. Probably some people at the end, waited 20 minutes for their food. So now I wanna do this right. I am battle-ready with 40 chicken fried pork chops so let’s do this again, while they last! For Breakfast- $2.95 Chicken Fried Pork Chop & 2 Eggs served with potatoes and fresh buttermilk biscuit, while they last- Come and get me!

Helpful Hint; We have cute servers so don’t wear any green- And don’t worry- we make Steve stay in the kitchen- he’s too busy to pinch. Plus he doesn’t even know what day it is.
Soup- Clam Chowder (Steve thinks it’s Friday)
Cream of Roasted Red Pepper & Artichoke

Don’t miss Chef John’s Chicken Marsala Soup. He used all my chicken for his soup so it’s more like a meal. I scratched a couple hours off his timecard to even things up.
Clam Chowder is our other soup and it’s soooo good, Proctor & Gamble wants to make a toothpaste with our clam chowder flavor.

For Breakfast-
Steak & Mushroom Scramble-
Sauteed top sirloin and flatiron steak pieces, mushrooms and three scrambled eggs topped with melted provolone. Served with potatoes and toast. $6.95– only $2.95 before 8am. (I still laugh when I think back to when we first started doing the Early Bird Special. It just happened to be on my sister Susan’s vacation. She walked into the restaurant, hair all mussed, makeup askew and half-jokingly half-yelled, “Who’s the marketing genius who got me up at 7am on my vacation?”)

Ash Wednesday Lunch Special-
Mahi Mahi Fish & Chips- Talk about moist, this fish is the best. We coat it in Japanese Breadcrumbs too instead of that tempura stuff that you peel off and leave on your plate (the owner does his share of the dishes and sees all this). So, the Mahi Mahi is moist, not with greasy tempura batter that lots of restaurants use to make the fish look bigger, and we give you coleslaw and fries. $6.95 YKM? That’s “You kiddin’ me” in text lingo– said with a Jersy accent of course!

For Breakfast:
It’s a bird- it’s a plane– it’s a Flyin’ Biscuit!!! They fly outa here too. Known as Reggie’s Deluxe in Portland, it has people lined up out the door and down the street at a restaurant called Pine State. It’s a tower, a TOWER I’m tellin ya, of fresh baked buttermilk biscuit, Southern fried chicken breast, over-hard egg, bacon, cheese and incredible sausage gravy. $6.50 but only $2.95 before 8am!

Unfortunately every free minute Steve has had, has been sleeping, not blogging- but I thought I would post a few of his typical blurbs from the daily email.. Those of you that know Steve know that he has quite the sense of humor.

Thankyou for all the business. See you soon at WOM. Becky and Sleeping Steve.