Island Cafe

As soon as the weather permits the café will be open on weekends (April/May).  We will be open 7 days a week starting May 24^th long weekend.  Things to look forward to this season include:

-       The Island Café is now licensed to serve beer and wine!!! We are in the process of sourcing beer and wine from local Toronto breweries and Ontario Wineries.  Come and sample creative cocktails on our beautiful garden patio!

-       We are thrilled that our island’s own Jana Roerick, baker extraordinaire, will be our staff baker this summer.  Jana owned and operated Jana’s Bake Shop on Salt Spring Island for many years and is the author of Flour Power.

-       The always effervescent Ivy Mairi is busy planning a concert and cultural program for this season!  Stay tuned for announcements about our Friday night concert series, Salons and much more.  You can check out Ivy Mairi’s music on her MySpace page.

See you soon!

After an amazing spring and summer, we’ve finally reached the time for the final concert of the 2011 season. On Friday Sept 30th, we’ll go out with a bang at our End-of-Season Celebration which will feature the incredible musical stylings of the Lemon Bucket Orkestra – Toronto’s only Balkan-Klezmer-Gypsy-Party-Punk Super-Band!

LEMON BUCKET ORKESTRA at Island cafe

Friday Sept 30th

Note the earlier start time, due to earlier sunset – Music begins at 6pm!

Take the 4:45, 5:30, or 6:15 ferries to Ward’s Island

We will have lots of special appetizers and goodies to thank our wonderful regulars, friends, neighbours, and supporters for such a great season.

As always, our special dinner menu starts at 5:30, and this show is pay-what-you-can!

Come celebrate the end of the season with food, music, and friends. See you there!

What a great season of music it’s been!

As we gear up for our final concert of the 2011 season this week, we wanted to share some great pictures and videos from two of our August events.
The wonderful Jared Rosenbaum took some great photos of the Treasures when they performed on Labour Day weekend….

And our (unofficial) resident videographer Tyler Hnatuk took some beautiful footage of the Kitgut Stringband on August 26th……

CAN’T WAIT TO SEE WHAT OUR FINAL EVENT BRINGS!

COME OUT TO OUR ANNUAL ALL AGES CHESS TOURNAMENT

THIS SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 24TH, 2011

sign up at 12:45pm

games start at 1:00pm

prizes for kids and adults

~please bring a chess board if you have one~

SPECIAL NOW ON AT THE CAFÉ:

EVERY DAY!

Free coffee with a breakfast burrito or a bowl of granola.

*ALSO*

New fall hours:

Mon-Thursday 9am-6:30pm

Fri, Sat, Sun 9am-7:30pm

Come out to our end of season concert with the Lemon Bucket Orchestra

on September 30^th @ 7pm

Special menu to be announced

SEPTEMBER 16th

Michael Jones and Andrew Hild

~two of our favourite Island rockers bring us a special intimate set as a duo~

Dinner starts at 5:30pm, show starts at 7pm and it’s pay-what-you-can.  Take the boat to Ward’s Island at 5:30, 6:15 or 7:15

Concert Menu:

Special Spicy Popcorn

Grilled vegetable and sausage kebabs served with peach salsa

Mixed greens salad with roasted eggplant, goats cheese and black berries

Chili con carne

Vegetarian Chili

served with cornmeal foccacia made with onion and thyme leaves, or a cornmeal muffin

Chili dogs for kids

Bourbon cake with praline icing

Chocolate layer cake

We’ve got two great events happening at the Island Cafe this Labour Day weekend!

On Friday night (that’s tomorrow!), we’ll host the last of the summer-portion of our concert series (we’ve still got two more coming up this fall). This week’s show will feature the country-Americana harmonies of young Toronto up-and-comers the Treasures. This band is freshly returned from recording their debut record down in Nashville! To hear music and more check them out at: treasuresband.com.

Check out Friday’s special menu:

Pulled Pork with corn&potato gratin with thyme and sage, and sweet potato biscuits
Stuffed Bell Peppers with green salad
Hand-cut fries with herbed mayonnaise
Garlic-Cilantro shrimp
Special desserts!

Dinner starts at 5:30, show at 7pm, and it’s pay-what-you-can!
Take the 5:30, 6:15, or 7pm ferries to the Ward’s Island.

On Sunday Morning we’re proud to be hosting a fundraising brunch as part of Amnesty International’s Taste for Justice campaign. From 8am-12pm we’ll be serving up a special Labour Day brunch menu and donating half of all sales to Amnesty’s work in women’s human rights. Come enjoy a deleicious long weekend brunch while supporting the fight for justice and human rights around the world. For more info on the Taste for Justice program, visit: tasteforjustice.ca

It’s going to be a great weekend. We hope to see you there!

Any questions? Email ivymairi@gmail.com