What is up?

How are you all?

Today's Soup: Cream of Broccoli, so damn good

The Salad Line Up:
Lemon Balm Slaw, fresh and lovely

Reisling Dill Slaw, need we say more?

Chicken Salad, meaty carbless goodness

Soba Noodle Salad, a veg head's dream

Chef's Salad, Blue cheese dressing. Nough said.

Cous Cous and Smoked Pork Salad. Sweet and Savoury Salty Goodness

Ontario Seasonal Fruit Salad. Rocks.

We'll see you soon!

First day of school

What do we have for your lunch box today?

The All Star Salad Line Up

Chefs Salad with Blue Cheese Dressing, everything should have Blue Cheese Dressing...
Soba Noodle Salad. The gals have loaded this up with more veggies. Ask and you shall receive.
Lemon Balm Slaw. Who knew slaw could be so damn good and ever so interesting?
Good Ol Chicken Salad. But this one is fresh and new
Couscous Salad. I love this little pasta.
Last but definately not least, we have a Jamie Kennedy Heirloom Tomato Salad. His tomatoes from his farm. Let the games begin!

The soup today. And it feels like a soup day to me. Chickpea and Corn with JK Bacon. Corn and bacon are like two food soulmates who've finally found each other. One should never be without the other.

Also, if you haven't heard, Linda our talented pastry chef has made mini versions of her life changing peach pies. I'm telling you..pick one up and take it home. No one makes pie like Linda.

I hope you all had a fantastic Labour Day weekend and I hope the transition of change for today was smooth for those of you who had kiddies off to school. We'll see you soon for lunch. Lord knows you deserve it!

I don't want to be a bragger (okay, well, secretly I do want to be a bragger. Here I go...) but we have great mornings at Hank's. I mean, I really love being here in the morning. I like the people with their papers. I love that 3 year old who eats his pain au chocolat or paints his face with it.
I like making lots and lots of lattes. I like seeing you off to the market.
I like that you make Saturdays in the cafe awesome. (*sings* I love Paris in the fall....)
You know, as far as places go. I like this place a lot.


Special!
Soup today is a Vegetarian-Friendly Cream of Mushroom Soup.

Special Sandwiches are
Pulled Pork Sandwich
& Heirloom Tomato Sandwich with our herbed goat cheese spread.

Salad Bar...

Cumbrae's Chicken Salad
Tri-Bean Salad with Pumpkin Seed Dressing
Lemon Balm Slaw (Delicious)
Niçoise Salad with Tuna & Boiled Eggs plus, Garlic Vinaigrette


See you soon,
Max

Days of Labour

Happy Labour Day weekend. I hope you get out, get going, etc. and etc.

Things I think you should do:
Get outside.
Andrea suggests hitting up the island. Time is running out.
Also, our Brazilian Ex-Pats (well, sort of) suggest hitting up Brazilian Day Canada. (Link to the Event Page) It's going to be broadcast live to Brazil as well and they are excited to see their flag, some TV and movie stars from Brazil (although the music is typical of what we think Brazilians enjoy, Andrea will tell you she prefers Rock 'n' Roll).
It's at Yonge & Dundas Square on Sunday.

And then we'll be closed Monday and none of you should be here either. Please, enjoy your families and friends.

Special!
Soup today is a Vegan-Friendly Carrot & Ginger Soup.

Special Sandwiches are
Fried Eggplant Sandwich (Think... Eggplant Marinara)
& Heirloom Tomato Sandwich with our herbed goat cheese spread.

Salad Bar...

Cumbrae's Chicken Salad
Tri-Bean Salad with Pumpkin Seed Dressing
Lemon Balm Slaw (Delicious)
Niçoise Salad with Tuna & Quail Eggs(!) plus, Garlic Vinaigrette
Blueberry Salad with cream and YUM.
Roasted Turnip & Cauliflower on Asian Greens with a Miso Mirui Dressing

So, I guess we'll be seeing you for lunch.

See you soon,
Max

The Thursday Edition

Today's all star line up.

Stew: Today we have a Sweet Potato Curry and Chickpea stew that's friendly for nearly all eating types...except those who don't like chickpeas or sweet potatoes...or curry.

The Salads:
Hank's Chicken Salad

Panzanella. What is it? Besides damn good it's grilled bread, veggies, and goat's cheese with pesto. It's the summer in a salad.

Curried Beef and Basmati Rice Salad. Hugely popular yesturday, we begged the chefs to make it again this morning. They are so lovely.

We have a salad Nicoise with seared Tuna, roasted tomatoes, fresh edamame and quail eggs. Class in a salad.

We also have an Heirloom Bean Salad with Pumpkin Seed Dressing and Summer Veg. It's fresh and summery goodness. And so good for you!

To mix it up, there is also a Turnip and Cauliflower Salad with Miso Mirin Dressing served on Wilted Asian Greens. This salad is nearly too pretty to eat, but too damn good not to.

The New Sandwiches for today to add to our usual roster of greatness would be
The BLT. Cumbrae's Bacon, Ontario Summer Tomatoes, Greens and Green Onion Mayo. I had it twice yesturday. That's right!

We also have the Fried Eggplant with Marinara Sandwich. If you have any kind of cravings at all I'm pretty sure this sandwich will set you right again. It's delicious in a soul fed kind of way.

I almost forgot! We also have the blueberry Sour cream salad today. I'm telling you, don't let the words sour and cream get in between you and this refreshingly not too sweet but sweet enough to satisfty classy little dessert. It's so good, you'll wonder how you've lived this long without having had it.

That's it, I'm exhausted. It's an incredible line up of greatness. Come and get it while the gettin's good.

We always look forward to seeing you!

Call it what you will but it's wednesday. That's right, the hump in the middle of the week which then slides downward into a long labour day weekend. Just to let ya'll know, we will be closed on the Labour day Monday to use and abuse our barbeques and if we're lucky get some sort of sunburn.

But for today... here's the all star line up.



Soup: French Canadian Onion Soup. Beefy, buttery, cheesy, croutony. Fills a hole you didn't know you had.



Salads: We have the Panzanella salad, which if you haven't tried it and you like vegetale garlicky goodness with some bread attached, this salads is delicious. And pick up some chocolate with it, chocolate helps with garlic breath. It's true.



Good ol' Hank's standby, Chicken Salad.

Coconut Curried Beef and Basmati Rice Salad. I don't think there's anything left to say.

We also have the Pear and Spagetti Squash Salad with Blue Cheese Dressing. It's so

dang good.



Now let me tell you about a blueberry discovery. This morning one of the cooks made her mom's famous blueberry dessert. It's fresh blueberries with a little sour cream and brown sugar. It's awesome. And we have it for you to try. Seriously fresh, not too sweet and full of big plump blueberries, the last of the season.



Alright. I'm off. I wish you all a good morning, we'll see you soon!

Tuesday Hanks Update

Hey Folks, Here's what we've got.

Soup: Sweet and Spicy Roasted Corn. This has both dairy and meaty goodness. Sorry Veggies.

Sandwich Specials: Pulled Pork, it comes it goes, it's always delicious.
A good old fashioned Tomato Sandwich with an herbed Goats cheese.

The Salad Line up Rocks
Panzanella Salad. Italian Bread salad with grilled vegetables. Awesome.
Raspberry Pear and Poppy Seed Slaw. Mixing up the slaws. This one kicks some slaw butt.
Chicken Salad. Meaty goodness
Spaghetti Squash Caramelized Pear Salad with Blue Cheese Dressing. Need I say more?
Family Reunion Pasta Salad with Smoked Turkey. It's got some spicy kick, so if you're family is a spicy group, this one will take you back.

We shall see you folks soon....we're ready..