Shortcakes
Well, its midsummer, you know what that means- up to our elbows in tomatoes, corn, squash, peppers, strawberries, and other good stuff. Starting Saturday, all of our tomatoes will be from Wild Boar Farms, whose many varieties of dry farmed tomatoes are minerally, sweet, and delicious.
Happy birthday to server extraordinaire Shelby, who is finally old enough to legally drink. I’m not saying buy her one, but..
Pig Roast is on the 19th this month, at Linden. Details to follow.
Our next Pig Roast will be at Linden St. on Sunday July 15th. This one will also mark the 50th birthday of Big Ken, whose bass guitar stylings have graced many of our roasts. Look out for a spike in the worldwide price of Fernet that weekend.
Our May pig roast at Linden St. should be a doozy. Its on Sunday May 20th, with Dynamic providing the music. We’ll be giving away some copies of the latest poster too.
Chop Bar is ramping up our catering arm. We are available for private pig roasts, weddings, office lunches and conferences, anywhere good food is needed. Email us at:
info@oaklandchopbar.com
Happy Spring, see you at Chop.
Lots of stuff happening since my last post. We’re going to be on an upcoming edition of Eye On The Bay, thanks to our good friend Tanya Holland. Chris and I will be trading witticisms on the air with Tanya and our close personal friends Thuy Vu and Liam Mayclem. They will also be at our April 15th pig roast at Linden St.
Our newly remodeled dining room and bathroom look pretty nice. All the tile, paint, acoustical ceiling(less noise), and plumbing were completed in just two days- pretty amazing. Photos to follow.
Lastly, we are expanding our charcuterie program. Our new prep kitchen in Berkeley, where we are doing our whole animal butchery, our sauerkraut, and other big projects, has a smoker! Some items we’ll be folding into the menu starting this week are our own pate maison, smoked pork belly, trotter terrine, tasso, and breakfast ham.
Keep an eye out for our new Two Mile wine list. It’s a separate list of bottle selections from wineries within two miles of Chop Bar. Coming soon…
Pig This Sunday
This years penultimate pig roast will be this Sunday at 4 PM at Linden. Ice cream, live music, even a jumpy house for the kiddies. See ya there.