During March we re-formatted our Lunch, Dinner and Bar menus in order to present a wider selection of your favorites along with our ever changing specials.

In addition to our food offerings, we have some new liquors and Martinis. We brought back from Guatemala the Ron Zacapa 23 year Centenario Rum which is world famous, and though not inexpensive, it is a top quality sipping rum. Stop in and try it. We will be serving our Mojitos as soon as the fresh mint starts growing and Victor, our bartender, is always willing to make a custom-designed Martini for the adventurous.

So, yes, we have changed a few things, some major. For example, we were able to lower our entree prices by no longer including a salad. We know that some of you prefer an appetizer and sometimes want to forgo the salad, anyway. Let us know what you think?

We are all looking forward to the Spring/Summer season. The warmer weather means more selection of fresh fruits and vegetables, more fresh fish choices, home grown mint for our Mojitos and of course, Max’s organic fresh tomatoes for our Greek Salads.

We are continuing our monthly Art Openings at Noah’s, the first Monday of each month. There are lots of new artists and shows signed up for this year. Debbie Papp has taken over the running of Noah’s Art and she is committed to keeping the shows interesting and in line with the ambience of Noah’s. John Papp will be one of the artists hanging his works for the months of July and August. His photography of Stonington Borough shorelines and the harbor is popular with residents and toursists. The show for this opening will be on August 3rd from 6-8pm as a combination Art Show and celebration of 30 years in business. There will be light snacks and a cash bar and all are welcome.

Our chef, Jamie Fowler will compete again for the third year to defend his title of “Iron Chef”. This year’s competition will again be held at the Enders Island Estate on June 12th.

May is a busy month at Noah’s with all the graduation celebrations and Mother’s Day–YES– you may make reservations for Mother’s Day and we encourage you to do so, it is a BUSY day. Stonington does not have a Memorial Day parade, but Noah’s is open on that Monday, May 25th and closed the next day, Tuesday May 26th. Stonington DOES have a parade on July 4th, this year it is on Saturday. This parade has grown every year with adults, children, babies, pets, bands, bikes, wagons, and even floats!! Anyone can march, so be sure not to miss this really fun event. It usually starts at the Park around 11am.

What happened to Fall? It came and went in a flurry of great weather, our German menu with Spaten Octoberfest on tap and transition into Winter comfort foods, holiday decorations and the Stonington Stroll, which was December 5th.

Coming up on the holidays, here are our holiday hours: we are open Xmas Eve Day until 3pm. We are closed all day Dec. 25th. We open again the 26th at 7:45am and serve our regular hours all weekend. We are open New Year’s Eve and recommend reservations. Jamie our chef, will be creating some interesting appetizers and entrees for that evening. We are OPEN New Year’s Day at 7:45am and will be serving our BRUNCH menu until 3pm. It is the same menu we serve on Sundays, so breakfast items are available until 3pm for you late sleepers and you can get your Bloody Marys at 9am because it is a Thursday!!! Those crazy blue laws……

On Wednesdays you can come in and have a glass of our house wine, a Chardonnay, a Merlot or a White Zin for $4.00 a glass. We will continue this through the Winter and early Spring. Jamie is also doing pasta specials on Wed nights with a house salad for $9.95.

2009 is an exciting year for us. Noah’s will celebrate it’s 30th anniversary on August 10th 2009. Yes, we have been in business for 30 years under the same ownership! So we decided to go back to our beginnings and dust off all those old travel prints we had hanging on our walls. We are going to rehang them on January 5th 2009 and they will be for sale.for $30.00 each or, you can put a sealed bid on the one or ones you like and at the end of the month, the highest bidder owns the print. We thought this would be a fun way to reminisce about our beginning and to clean out our attic! Some of our customers may remember The Night Scotsman or Tribune Tower, Touraine and many others. So come join us for the opening on Jan 5th from 6-8pm and check out the “Art”, have a glass of wine and schmooze. In February, Jude will be hanging her beautiful, one of a kind quilts. I would like to continue to have new and interesting shows on the first Monday of each month. It will be up to the artist of the month whether they will have a “cocktail opening”.

Just a reminder: YES, we are open in February. Even though for many years, we did close for the month, when we put our bar in 5 years ago, we decided not to close in February. So, even though John and I like to get away to a warm country for a few weeks in February -discover new wines, take amazing photos (Guatemala this time) our staff and partner, Stan Schwartz, will be here to take good care of you.

Mid August and it seems like our pancakes are so good, even I can’t get one, the griddle is always so full!!

It doesn’t seem possible Labor Day will be here in 3 weeks! But there is lots of excitement about that; Noah’s will be hosting an “Employee Art Show” on Tuesday Sept 2nd from 6-8pm. The restaurant is actually closed that day for business because we ARE OPEN ON MONDAY, LABOR DAY. So, we take Tuesday to recover. That evening, the 2nd, from 6-8pm we invite everyone; family, friends, general public to come to the opening night of the show for free wine, beer and hor d’ houvres and to view the works of our talented employees. All the art on display will be for sale. If you are in town, please join us for a night of fun and celebration.

We are in full season here at Noah’s!

Mojitos are back with all the fresh mint from Debbie’s garden. Max and Uli are delivering beautiful tomatoes and basil daily from their Hillsdale Farm in Rhode Island. Our Greek salads are back on the menu with imported Feta cheese and Olive Oil. We use the basil to make our own Pesto. Strawberry-Rhubarb crisps are a hot dessert item until the Rhubarb goes to seed and is out of season. Key lime pie is back on the dessert list most of the time, after popular demand. But the Pavlovas are the hottest item, especially after our review in the Providence Journal.

Friday is the 4th of July and of course, the annual Parade at 10am. Everyone is invited to march, along with pets, children, babies, bicycles …..each year the Parade grows and one never can decide whether to be a participant or a spectator! If you are planning on coming to dinner now, it is a good idea to make a reservation. Saturday night is the busiest and it is difficult to find a table in the dining room without a reservation. Weeknights are not quite as busy. This is pretty typical until after Labor Day.Just call and ask to reserve a table.

Jamie, our chef, has just won his second Iron Chef competition!! He has participated two years in a row. This year it was held on beautiful Enders Island in Mystic, overlooking Fishers Island Sound. This year’s secret ingredient was monkfish. Can he claim the prize three years is a row? It is a wonderful charity event for the local homeless center and was a sold out event.

There is so much to look forward to in the Borough during the summer. One can tour the village on foot easily. There is public access to the water, beautiful historic homes, gardens, shops, the oldest lighthouse in New England, and of course great seafood, desserts and cocktails at Noah’s.

The village fair on the town green is always the first Saturday in August. This year it will be August 2nd. There are tables of arts, crafts, jewelry, homebaked goods, flowers, and games for the children. This fair has been going on for as long as I can remember and as kids, we couldn’t wait for the day.

Finally! Spring is here, the Borough is coming alive with flowers, tourists, regulars returning from their winter vacations, boats appearing in the harbor…..this is a great time to visit the Borough and Noah’s, before it is too busy and the wait without a reservation is over an hour!!

Jamie, the head chef, Dave, Linda, Yul and Roger have been doing a great job cooking three meals a day. You will find some new and interesting items on the dinner menu, but recognize many of our old and favorite stand-bys.

May is a busy month at Noah’s. Many folks come to celebrate graduations with their families ( we are proud to say two of our daughters, Katie and Laura will graduate this May!) Conn college families love Noah’s and we welcome them all the weekend of the 17th and 18th of May. Make your reservations, it will be busy!!

Mothers’ Day is always bustling at Noah’s. We are taking reservations now for Sunday brunch or dinner. Call early as we book up fast for this special day for Mom.

Memorial Day the Borough has a parade, usually around 11am and everyone comes for breakfast first or lunch after the parade and we serve dinner too. THIS IS ONE OF THE MONDAYS WE ARE OPEN. We close the next day, Tuesday the 27th.

June is a little quieter actually, and the big events are the Off Soundings race to Block Island and the Stonington Garden Club tours on the weekend of June 25 and 26th.

Hope to see you this Spring and Summer.

Fall is quieter and more relaxed in the Village. The days are still warm enough to shop, stroll the streets and stop in for lunch, a glass of wine or an appetizer. Noah’s serves food all day!

We had great success with our Octoberfest menu and our Spaten Octoberfest on tap all during October. Now we will switch to a French Bistro Menu. We will be serving daily specials like: Choucroute Garni, Liver and Onions. Coq au Vin, Beouf Bourguignonne and others, along with a special priced glass of recommended wine. Debbie and John traveled for three weeks through France in June and came back with some interesting ideas for wines to add to our list. We really enjoyed the wines of the Bordeaux and Burgundy areas… who wouldn’t?

With the holiday season approaching, we would like to give you some dates to remember: The Stonington Stroll sponsered by the SBMA will be held on December 7th. It tends to be a busy night, so if you plan to stop in for dinner after the Stroll, we suggest a reservation.

We are closed, as always on Thanksgiving Day, but open the remainder of the weekend. We are closed all day December 24th and 25th. For the New Year holiday this year a few changes: even though we are usually closed on Mondays, we WILL BE OPEN for the 31st, all day, serving breakfast, lunch and dinner. We strongly suggest reservations for dinner. January 1st, we WILL be open, serving our brunch menu until 3pm and then our dinner menu at 5pm. On Wednesday, Jan 2nd, we WILL BE CLOSED, for a day of rest for our staff.

Here are some photos of 3 of Linda’s desserts.

This is the place where we’ll keep you posted on the latest goings on at Noah’s Restaurant.

I’m posting details of our Argentina trip with the most recent events first.

I received a link from a friend that gives a rather humorous introduction to travel and dining in Argentina that resonates with some of our experiences.Check it out for a good laugh: Argentina on Two Steaks a Day

Notes from Debbie:

It has been almost three weeks since we returned. We are slowly catching up and getting ready for our busy Spring/Summer season. John has been busy researching and testing new fish recipes. Asparagus season is upon us. Ane we will be serving a new Argentinean inspired Hearts of Palm Salad.

Meanwhile, I have been planting flowers on the deck so we will have them for our vases and outside planters. Carissa is sanding and varnishing our tables and booths. We also have some new runners for the booths and are doing a makeover of the restrooms.

Trow Cottrell is in charge of hanging our next Art Show. As some of you know, M. Thomas, a Stonington fixture for many years, passed away. She had been in charge of Noah’s Art for 25 years.

Debbie’s notes from Hotel Porteros de los Funes:

Well, here we are on the last leg of our journey. We left our B&B this morning at 9:30am and arrived here in the foothills of San Luis around 1pm. This is a lakeside hotel and resort. When we drove up to it,we looked at each other, laughed and said, “Holy Smokes!” All the rooms overlook the lake and mountains to our Northwest, and we are in the Brazil Suite. John has his tripod on the balcony hoping to see and photogragh the Southern Cross, if we can find it. He figured out how to hook up to the internet directly from our room, clever man. When we arrived, we were hungry, so went to the dining room, also overlooking the decks, pool and lake. We had an incredible arrugula and sun-dried tomato salad with a Parmesean-like cheese with a bottle of La Linda Voigner, which was perfect with the salad. But by the time our entrees of: pasta, (for me) ,with basil and almond butter and for John, you guessed…more beef.. came, we needed more wine so ordered a bottle of Rutini 2002 Malbec/Cabernet blend. Wow,( I just took a taste so I could remember it ). It is gutsy, dry, nice balance in the fruit, and a little tannin. This is our first Rutini and we seem to be leaning more towards the blends now, at the end of our trip. I am looking forward to our dinner around 11pm or so, because I saw Trout on the menu and I am longing for some fresh fish. We have decided to stay here for two nights and then on Monday make the very long drive to the airport, or close to it, in BA.

March 12-16 Photos

Hi Res Photo of Aconcagua Only for high speed internet.