Thank you schoolhouse Team!

The team at the Schoolhouse has been so dedicated over the last two years, coming up with creative service techniques, sourcing local food and spending their free time brainstorming about fresh ideas.  They have come a long way from the early days and contiue to push to get better everyday.  They spend long hours doing what they do and I wanted to share my thanks for their professionalism and expertise.  Thanks guys.

Here are some of their recent accomplishments

Whole Team-

Won Editors choice for 2009 “Yankee Magazine”

Best overall Restaurant 2009 Opentable

Top 50 American restaurants  Opentable

No 1 ranking for Neighborhood Gem in CT

Kitchen Staff-

Achieved No 1 ranking on Opentable for Best Food

Won best desserts by CT Magazine

Waitstaff-

Achieved No 1 ranking on Opentable for Best service

Have found and begun sourcing local Artisan cheeses

Spring and Summer dishes at the Schoolhouse at Cannondale

Foie gras,watermelon salad

spring salad of baby beets, raw tender peas, soft farm egg, mint, and Wave Hill croutons

We change the menu so frequently that our guests often wonder what is on the menu now.  Here are a few dishes that are currently on the menu or have been recently.

July 1st Homegrown Garden update/ Harvest

The garden has had the tendency to be a bit waterlogged this late Spring-early Summer but with a few hot-sunny days strung together now we are seeing a great harvest.  We have already blown through most of our lettuce, watermelon radishes and carrots but there is still so much more to come zucchinni, cucumbers, parsnips, tomatoes and pumpkins.  Stop by the restaurant to sample our local harvest.

Baby carrots, watermelon radish, variety of baby beets, haricot vert, spring peas, nasturtium flowers, zucchinni blossoms, and chamomile blossoms

Here is the garden at my house that provides some of the produce for the restaurant