Menu Changes

We have been talking about menu changes since soon after we opened. That is the nature of The Black Birch. Jake and Skye are always talking about refining each dish, and when they feel they have zeroed in on the plate... well it becomes time to start something new. After the conversations and the speculation, the new menu is taking shape. There is a menu and the new foods are jostling for position in our already crammed walk-in. We've decided on the roll-out date and are quickly approaching the day.

There is always a sense of apprehension. We are novitiates; although we have all been around restaurants we are just learning to crawl at The Black Birch. We have in effect, created a menu to immediately follow up what seems to be a very successful opening menu. Our kitchen is talented, ambitious determined team. They subordinate their egos to our food-- and it shows. The food benefits, our guests benefit. We appreciate it, and we appreciate the kitchen. But it is a new menu. Things change. Some things we love go away. We treasure the memory and patiently await their next visit. Like a loved one who has traveled, moved away and returned, the items may not be the same. They will come back somehow foreign, but still recognizable. Down the road it will be a regular thing, people will come in and see something somewhat familiar, something once loved and never quite forgotten. For now, it is a process of taking away as much as presenting the new. We firmly believe in our kitchen, in the new. We hope that our guests will share in that belief. They will be rewarded, the experience will stay fresh, new. And that faith will keep things feeling familiar. Enjoyable.

Cheers,
Ben