What is Farm to Fork?

Do chefs really go to the farm with no menu in mind for that evenings service? We DO!

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

RECESS: Happy Hour on the Schoolhouse Patio

What screams summer to you? Fresh muddled drink of the moments? Friends gathering together outside and enjoying the warm weather? Listening to the rolling Norwalk River or a roaring outdoor fire pit? We have them all!

Come join us out on the patio for cocktails and small plates every Friday this summer starting at 5pm. You no longer have to drive to South Norwalk for a good time with great drinks and food. We’re right around the corner! It’s been a hit so far, so come on down!

As always, our menu’s change weekly depending on the best fresh food we can plate for you! Our most recent menu’s included the below:

Drink of the Moments:
Skinny Margarita
Mojito
Grapefruit Refresher
Caravella Champagne
Lynchburg Lemonade
Raspberry Smash
Sangria & Beer

Small Plate Menu: (all $9)
Duck leg roulade with polenta crouton and fried mustard greens
Aged New York strip, toast points, horseradish crème fraichè sauce
Mixed greens salad, radish, peas and orange
Mini soft shell crab sandwich with bacon and avocado served with hand cut fries
Cornbread with crème fraichè and strawberries

Cheese 1 for $6
2 for $10
3 for $12