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Tuesday, March 2, 2010

L’Auberge warms up for Oscar Night with Julia Child menu

By Mark Fisher | Tuesday, March 2, 2010, 12:09 PM

L’Auberge will feature a Julia Child tasting menu this Friday and Saturday, March 5-6, to put diners in the mood for Sunday night’s Academy Awards ceremony, in which “Julie and Julia” is nominated.

The restaurant originally had scheduled a Sunday night bash to coincide with the televised awards program, but has canceled that event and is offering the tasting menu instead. Here are the details from a l’Auberge email:

Due to a number of scheduling conflicts this coming Sunday, l’Auberge will be canceling the Oscar Party but we will be featuring the Julia Child tasting menu on Friday March 5th and Saturday March 6th in The Main Dining Room

Oscar’s Weekend at L’Auberge

Friday March 5th & Saturday March 6th

To celebrate this years Academy Awards L’Auberge will proudly Feature a 5 course tasting menu in The Main Dining Room from the recipes of the Oscar Nominated movie Julie & Julia.

Julie & Julia Menu

Amuse Bouche

First Course Quenelles of Halibut Lobster Essence and Caviar

Second Course Potage Veloute au Champignon “A very fine rich mushroom soup for our grand occasion made with 5 differnet European mushrooms” Served with Creme Fraiche

Third Course Moules Parisiienne “Mussels with Fennel” Curry, Sauce Bernaise

Fourth Course Escalopes de Veau Chasseur “Veal Scalopinni” Eggplant, Haricot Vert, Tomato

Fifth Course Souffle Julia

Bon Appetite

$85.00 per person

Reservations are required so call Josef or Brian at 299-5536

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Fazoli’s chooses Dayton to launch new restaurant concept

By Mark Fisher | Tuesday, March 2, 2010, 11:33 AM

Fazoli’s has chosen Dayton to roll out its new concept stores — starting with a new restaurant that will open next week across from the Dayton Mall — and is investing $750,000 total in its five Miami Valley restaurants.

“We think Dayton is a great market for us,” said Carl Howard, president and CEO of the Lexington, Ky.-based chain of 243 Italian restaurants across 30 states. “Our restaurants have performed very well there, and they’ve held their own through the recession.”

Despite relatively high unemployment and foreclosure rates and some high-profile business departures, the Dayton area remains an attractive market for restaurant operators, especially casual restaurant chains. In 2009, upscale burger chains Smashburger and Five Guys Burgers & Fries opened the first of what chain officials say will be several locations across the Miami Valley, following on the heels of a rapid expansion of Sonic drive-thru restaurants. And EO Burgers, a first restaurant of its kind for a small Ann Arbor-based chain, is scheduled to open this week at The Greene in Beavercreek.

The newest Fazoli’s is scheduled to open to the public Tuesday, March 9, at 2419 Miamisburg-Centerville Road, across from the Dayton Mall in Miami Twp. The restaurant will open with 50 employees, and Fazoli’s total employment in the Miami Valley has grown to 160. The other four Fazoli’s are located in Sugarcreek Twp., Moraine, Huber Heights and Troy.

All of the Miami Valley Fazoli’s are among the first in the chain to adopt upgrades that are likely to spread to other restaurants in the coming months, Howard said. Plates, glassware and silverware have replaced plastic and paper, and servers now deliver meals to guests’ tables orders are placed at the counter, replacing the former self-serve style.

While the experience may be a bit more formal, Fazoli’s CEO deflects the idea restaurant chain is going upscale, pointing out that its menu in some cases reduced prices. All salads and sandwiches are now $4.99 or less, Howard said. “It’s a very affordable place to eat,” the CEO said.

And it will be a homecoming of sorts for Howard when he comes to Dayton next week for the grand opening ceremonies Tuesday: He grew up in Kettering and is a 1983 graduate of Fairmont East High School.

“My dad still lives there, so I’ll see plenty of family and friends when I come back,” he said.

The newest Fazoli’s will be open Sunday through Thursday from 10:30 a.m. to 10 p.m., and Friday and Saturday from 10:30 a.m. to 11 p.m. For more information, call (937) 439-4645.

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