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| Thanks for celebrating the beginning of 2009 with us! This New Year's Eve was a cold and beautiful night, with a bright crescent moon joined by a sparkling Venus in the clear, winter sky. Our most popular entrées of the evening were the Crab Cakes with hollandaise sauce and the Beef Filet with mushroom/red wine reduction - both from our special NYE menu. The luscious and amazingly successful Butterscotch Crème Brûlée sold out before the night was over, so we decided to keep it on the menu for a while longer to give more people a chance to enjoy it. Artist Reception this Monday Evening: Monday, January 12, 5:30 - 7:30 pm A Panzanella artist reception is the perfect opportunity to get a good look at the artwork while the restaurant is closed and chat with the artist and other local art lovers. Our bar will be open and light hors d'oeuvre will be served. More Check out our Featured Wine for January |
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| Gallery |
 Red Clay Fields and other paintings by Vieni PawloskiVieni Pawloski has a Caribbean soul. Although she was born and raised mostly in Eastern North Carolina, she spent her first six years in Bermuda, where she started school at age four. She discovered a love for drawing in pencil when she was seven, and has been drawing and painting ever since. After earning an AA degree in Graphic Art and Design from Alamance Community College, Pawloski worked as a graphic designer for 20 years. In the early 80s, Pawloski moved to the intensely creative environment of Berkeley, California, where grants and free community colleges allowed her to feed her intellectual and artistic hunger with a remarkable range of studies. At the San Francisco Art Institute, with classmates from all over the world, Pawloski studied philosophy with Angela Davis, sculpted in clay with Richard Berger, enjoyed the Diego Rivera Gallery, and read Sontag. She studied visual ideology with emphasis on avant garde art with Raymond Mondini, and began her career as a landscape painter in 1984, painting the Berkeley Hills and the Half Moon Bay pumpkin patches. In 1992, Vieni returned to her tropical roots to work in the Florida Keys as a field marine biologist for NOAA. She was married to a kayak nature guide, with whom she co-wrote a book entitled Sea Kayaking the Florida Keys. Finally coming home to NC, Pawloski graduated from UNC in 2005 with a BFA in Studio Art. She continues to paint the fields, old houses, country ponds and roadways of Orange County, but with an exuberant palette that reveals an irrepressible Caribbean soul. You can see more of Vieni's artwork and contact Vieni at her website. |
| January Wine Feature |
 The featured wine for January is Villa Sorono Pinot Noir Delle Venezia 2006.A classic European style Pinot Noir grown and produced in the Delle Venezie region of Italy, a short distance from Venice, this wine is fresh, medium bodied and velvety with rich cherry fruit. It is a delicious accompaniment for any of our pizzas, the Pappardelle on our dinner menu, and the Chicken Panini on the Lunch menu. This is a great value wine that will appeal to both Pinot Noir fans and Italian wines lovers. |