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Okay, Tuesday. See the thing with tuesday is that there are no excuses. Monday has a one up because everything crapy that happens is automatically disregarded. It's the first day of the week, it's a little hard to grasp. Even though it happens 52 times a year. Tuesday, which coincidentally happens the same amount of times as monday, you have to take responsiblity for everything. You should have gotten all your blunders out of your system the day before. If you didn't you're a pathetic excuse for a human being.

The pancakes are APPLE.

Muffins fall under the category of blueberry.

The omlette is arugula and cheddar.

The soup is curried lentil.

See ya. Hope you're all with it.
Sincerely,
A Pathetic Excuse for a Human Being. AKA: Just the Waitress.

So here were are again huh? Monday. Well. So. What about today will be different than all the otther mondays in all the whole world? This isn't me trying to be philosophical. It's not even philosophical. It's really very dumb actually. Down right stupid. Of course this f*%$ing monday will be different. It is never the same. Unless your life seems like an unending repetitive drone. Well. Anyway. GOOOOOODDDMMMOOORRRNNIINNNGG! I was joking. About the unending drone thing. I was being funny. I hope you realize that. Mondays are like a playground in may, like puppies chewing socks, like sex and lolli pops. Don't worry, I'm stopping.

Special Monday snack for you all. Bacon, brie and caramelized onion on a chiabatta bun.

The omlette is guac a mole, not to be confused with whack a mole, and cheddar.

Heidi finally got the damn muffins right. They are chocolate Chip. Not chocolate swirl not just chocolate. CHOCOLATE F@#%ING CHIP!

The soup as I am imagining it will be chickpea masala.

I love you and mondays and chewing socks in may while, never mind. Too graphic for, you know what day it is bye now.
See Ya
Just the waitress

P.S. I know I wrote earlier about being earnest and all but heck, I'm living Toronto so sometimes the nasty side slips out. I'll tuck it back in if you come in and give me a smile. With teeth.

Well, you will be happy to know that I am on a "getting to work early streak" these days. I don't know if you remember, but a few months back I was always late and I think James was getting pissed. Well those days are over (for now)! By the way this is Heidi typing and not "just the waitress" I think her name is Kristen. I don't really know how it has happened. Maybe it is the cold weather or maybe it my &%$@# cute cats that have gotten into the routine of picking at the mattress beside my head at four in the morning! I get here so early that I have time to blog well before you people are at work!

Yay, Yay lady, enough with the rant just get to the specials!

We have a lovely arugula, pear and brie omelette.

Banana muffins.

Roasted garlic and cilantro soup with a tomato base.

Croque monsieur with soup or salad for $7.00.

Veggie chilli with baguette for $6.00.

Fresh baked nanaimo bars, peach tart and upside down apple cake!

I am looking forward to the weekend when I get to sleep in by a whole extra hour. Hopefully Neville and Booboo will give me a bit of a break. Any ideas on how to stop cats from picking at things and singing me lovely songs early in the morning? I've tried giving them away but nobody wants them!!!!!!!

Have you seen the new NOW today? There is a very interesting article in the food and drink section. You should check it out.

The omelette today is fresh tomato, chive and cheddar cheese.

We have spiced pear and currant muffins.

The soup today is carrot and ginger.

Veggie chilli and baguette for $6.00.

Fresh batch of Hildy's baking. You'll just have to come in and see what we have!!

Welcome. I'm wearing the same shirt I was yesterday because I got in an argument with some film guy over 1970's curtains at a Value Village last night. Feel free to come up with your own reasoning, have fun, take bets amoung friends, have the time of your lives. I may be a bit smelly but so is the food, in a good way.

BANANANANANANANANANAN Pancakes!

The omlette is a rugula and cheddar. Don't ask me what a rugula is I'm in a day old shirt.

The muffuns are mini and blueberry.

The soup is carrot ginger. I mistakingly wrote CARROT GINGER SOUR on the board this morning . . . shirt.

Bye. Come in today don't mind me. I'm really lovely if you don't get too close. I'm sure Heidi will talk to you.
Love,
Just the Waitress

P.S.
My name's not Just it's Kristan

Monday. Monday. Day of mon. On day with an M. Ay Mond. If I added and E to the end of Mond it would be monde which is world in french. Ay in my mind today means hey, how's it going, what's up. Hey you know what day of the week it is, so go easy on me. Therefore, Monday is a day in which we can't even get a slippery hold on any form of logic and backwardsly say hey how's it going what's up to the groggy world.

The Ay Mond special has returned for another week. Bacon, brie and caramelized onion on a chiabatta bun for only $5.

The muffins are chocolate chip. I have to admit that I picked a chip of one of the muffins. Sorry.

The omlette is roasted red pepper and goat cheese.

The soup is kind of like all of you. Sweet potato.

See ya.
The now old crumudgeonly waitress.

The omelet today is roasted red pepper and parmesan

The muffins are banana and toasted walnut. I like walnuts, I have one in my raincoat pocket that I brought back from a trip to Austria almost five years ago and it's very special to me. It's not toasted though, the walnut, I don't think anyone toasts Austria either. Certainly not the Viennese.

The soup is Jude's ever popular leek and potato.

The sandwich special is south-western chicken on a toasted bun with soup or salad. Genny, I don't really have a good reason for calling it that other than the seasoning is vaguely Tex-Mex.

Heidi's mom made some more chocolate and walnut brownies. Get 'em while they last!

If anybody is coming in this weekend, the omelet tomorrow is sauteed mushroom and goat cheese and Sundays omelet is spinach and cheddar.

The delicate art of fucking a mango. Sorry I meant to write SLICING a mango, I'm a little distracted today. We found out on Monday that we are to be reviewed by Steven Davey in Now magazine next week. I was briefly interviewed by him yesterday and I got through it without using the words fecal matter or impacted bowels. I'm quite proud of myself, although my mother would not be. In fact this should be my last offensive blog as I am surely offending mothers( and dads) everywhere and once we hit the press we are sure to get far too many hits on this site for me to continue in this manner. Now, back to mangos. I've been asked a few times how one does it and I'll do my best to explain it without the use of diagrams.

-use a sharp knife, size doesn't matter it's all in how you use it, however a large knife used adroitly is very impressive( I myself have a very large chef's knife which I keep very sharp, and am very adept with it, so I've been told)

-slice the top and bottom off the mango and then place upright on a cutting board or similar surface, like the floor or the hood of a car.

-carefully, carefully and I can't stress this enough, carefully using the tip of the knife cut off the skin going from the top of the mango to the bottom in even strips.

-then cut off the remaining flesh from either side of the seed. You will end up with two nice pieces you can then slice perpendicular to lengthwise and its ready for presentation

-you know what, its all very complicated so for God's sake don't even bother. The best way to enjoy a mango is to do what I do and take it in the shower with you and use your bare hands...


The muffins today are mango and chocolate chip

The soup is pumpkin and chickpea

The omelet is sauteed leek and havarti

The sandwich special is a GLT, guacamole, lettuce and tomato on the usual toasted ciabatta bun. This ought to bring the vegemanarians out of the wood-work, the rest of you should ask for bacon on it.



hey Doug! notice I didn't mention Tommo? he'll be pissed

next week, tomato cunnilingus, I mean Florida and California vs. local tomatoes

Let me see, hmmm, well, uh, alright, what to say? Hello? Yes. Hello. How's it going? Are you awake yet? I'm not. Atleast I don't think I am. I guess if I have to think about it I'm not. Are you? I guess I already asked that. Next topic, hmm, puppies? No. Lamps? No. Politics? Too touchy. Weather? Too cliche. But cliches are cliches because they're true. That saying doesn't fit here. No weather. So. I guess my mother was right when she told me that I won't get by with out small talk. Atleast I know these few facts:

It is pancake tuesday. Blueberry that is.

Keeping with the theme we have blueberry muffins.

The omlette sounds like a good thing to have on a cold November day like today. Stay away from weather, got it. Pear and Brie.

The soup is lentil and squash.

How do I end this? See ya? To dismissive. Bye? But I'll be seeing you. Sincerely? Too earnest. If you ask me we can all stand to be a little more earnest.

Sincerely,
Kristan

I don't know what to write today, I don't know what to do with my life, I don't know how to walk properly, I don't know how to spell, I couldn't find my contacts this morning, I missed the bus, I ate another BLT for comfort, I'm on my fifth coffee at 9:30, I can't believe it's nine thirty, it's only 9:30, I miss my dog, I miss my bed . . . I read the news paper and now all my North American complaining feels incredibly insignificant.

The all Canadian sandwich of monday is here up bright and early for all of you: bacon, brie(I guess it's not really all Canadian because of the brie so I here and now proclaim this sandwich to be 2/3s Canadian and 1/3 French) and caramelized onion on chiabatta.

The omlette is arugula and cheddar.

The soup is sweet potato.

The muffins are melted chocolate chip, so they're chocolate.

Hope to see you all here complaints, not about me or the restaurant hopefully, and all.

Pesto tomato omelette.

Banana and berry muffins.

Broccoli and potato soup.

Vegetarian chili served with baguette $6.00.

Tired waitress.

Chatty cook.

Jack came in today.

Patrick is here.

This place smells good.

Come in for some food.

No second rate "poetry" today kids, just a sleepy waitress. ZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Sorry. Good morn and all. Whew this is going well already. At least the food is on top of things, buildings, builboards, mailboxes. Is this making any cohesive sense? I'll answer that for myself.

Apple pancakeroos today.

Mushroom and parmasan omlette.

Croque monsieur with soup.

Blueberry mufffins.

Garden Veggie soupela.

Bye. goodnightmorning.

M aybe
O ne
N ebulous
D ay
A mazingly
Y ou

M orning
O ften
R egretted
N ow
I nsufferable
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G ood

Will dissapear.

We have the incredible bacon, brie, and caramelized onion sandwich on a chiabatta bun.

The omlette is brie and pear.

The muffins are chocolate chip.

The soup is chickpea and tomato masala.

I think that's it. See ya.

We have some special guest visiting us from England today! Tommo's parents Hilary and Stephen Norton. They have come to check out all the handy work that their son Tommo has done and to try the "club Tommo"!

Club Tommo you ask? Well that is one of our specials today. Chicken curry club on a ciabatta bun served with soup or salad for $8.00.

The omelette is spinach and cheddar cheese.

We have a lovely butternut squash soup.

The muffins today are banana.

Well Hilary and Stephen have a lovely visit while you are in Toronto. By the way you've done a lovely job raising your son. He only has a few funny habits!!!!

I've been feeling a little out of sorts ever since this day light savings time. I'm so used to walking to work when it is dark out and now that I have light in the morning I feel like I'm always late. Then I see the construction workers going to construct at work and I realize that everything is the way it should be.

Which brings me to the specials:

We have a guacamole and cheddar omelette.

Cranberry and walnut muffins.

Sweet potato soup.

Bacon, blue cheese and spinach with a mango mustard on a baguette for $5.00.

I am thankful however with getting an extra hour of sleep! mmmmm sleep. Have I told you how much I love sleep!

This is information that I probably shouldn't disclose lest you guys figure out how big of a nerd I am. Every morning I set my alarm for 6:15 but I always reset it for seven more minutes of sleep because the nine snooze minutes would just be too much. When my second alarm goes off I lie in bed and coount to thirty using Mississippis and then do it again. I sit in the bathroom until the shower steams up the entire area of the room and then finally get ready. This sequence of events ALWAYS leads to me being a little to late for the bus so I have gotten in the habbit of running for five minutes all the way down the two streets that lead to the bus. This must look pretty silly not to mention puts me in a cranky rush. Ask my friend Chris, who, one day just happened to be biking by me at 7:00am and started yelling at me, Me in my rush didn't look up but proceded to give him the finger as I kept running, not knowing it was him. This is just to demonstrate my scabbyness.
That is why I would like to send my sincere thanks out to the bus driver today who saw my comic race for his vehicle and stopped a whole two streets before the stop for me. It just put me in a good mood, which is what you need on a rainy Toronto morning sometimes, especially at the beggining of the end of the warmth. I like things like that. Like when I was depressed in rainy Montreal and sitting in a coffee shop a guy in a gorilla mask knocked on the window and waved at me and made my day. The lesson, wear a gorilla mask and I'll give you a discount.
I know this is a pretty boring blog, but it's not supposed to be exciting just a thanks.

We have pancakes which are banana.

Our omlette is roasted red pepper and chevre.

The soup is mushroom chickpea.

The muffins are blueberry.

And we have a croque monsiuer sandwich today.

Don't go thinking all my blogs are going to be like this from now on. If you want to get this daily you'll have to watch Oprah. I'm no f*@&$ing Oprah.

Mondays will never be easy, huh? At least today was made a bit more cheery with the whole day light savings time thing, huh? However, I kept thinking I was late for work. the time thing messes with one's logic. And I wanted to use the whole: "I kept thinking I was late because of blah blah blah." For early morning conversation with Heidi but there was a snag, I was a little late, not incredibly late but five minutes late, late enough to be considered late, because you know how it is, if it's a minute or two it's just breathing space not lateness. Anyway, I was late so I didn't want to strike up with "WOW I kept thinking I was late this a.m." Because the conversation that followed that statement would have probably sounded, or read like this:

Me: Wow, I kept thinking (ypu know how it goes.)
Heidi: You are late.
Me: Well, I mean really late.
Heidi: Who the F*&# are you to decifer between latenesses. Late is late is late.
Me: I was just. . .
Heidi: Just what? Disrespecting authority? Being smug? Pissing me off?
Me: (Barely able to get the words out through the tears at this point.) No. Blubber blubber conversation. Blubber blubber friend.
Heidi: Don't give me that. Get down and give me twenty.
Me: 1...2...3...4..ect.
Heidi: Don't you ever open your mouth or show your face in this establishment again you little punk. (Heidi kicks me while I'm doing push ups.)
Me: Okay mam yes mam Heidi mam. (I get up to go.)
Heidi: What do you think you're doing you little peice of nothing!
Me: Going like. . .
Heidi: Like nothing finish your pushups and then leave!

So as you can see, it was a good thing I kept my mouth shut. I can tell you guys because I can trust you right? I hope? Maybe? Well even if I can't, I still have to give you the specials because you don't even want to know what my she beast boss will do if I don't.

The omlette is roasted red pepper and chevre.

The soup is butternut squash and kale.

Of course we have bacon brie and caramelizeed onion on a chiabatta bun.

And the muffins are chocolate swirl.

I'd better get back to work now hiugfer cvghkvs weo HELP!