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For years Sue Gaukin ran a catering service and a personal chef business from her home. As her business increased, she decided opening her own restaurant would provide more room for the cooking tasks associated with her growing business. With the help of her son Jim, she founded Corned Beef Cafe on January 2, 2000 in a small house on Broadview Road, and quickly began to see her new restaurant prosper. On January 1, 2004 Sue moved her business into a much larger facility across the street, and has built a wonderful reputation for excellent food and old-fashioned hospitality. We met with Sue recently, and listened as she spoke of Corned Beef Cafe's offerings;
Corned Beef Cafe is a full-service restaurant serving breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Our breakfast menu features eggs and omelets, breakfast specialties, pancakes, and French toast. For lunch we serve a wide variety of sandwiches ranging from hamburgers to bison burgers, deli sandwiches, specialty sandwiches and wraps, and of course our corned beef sandwiches that are well-known for being piled high and served hot. Lunch is a time when I create ever-changing specials, such as Reuben Soup and traditional and time honored dishes like Chicken Paprikash. Our deli counter offers meats, salads, and coleslaws by the pound or by the serving, and we cater a wide range of business and private functions, including business breakfasts and lunches, graduations, first communions, weddings and wedding showers, family parties, and sporting events. Some of the events we've catered have been for groups in excess of 250 people.
Corned Beef Cafe serves much more than corned beef. We can prepare anything. When our customers make special requests, we add their requests to our daily special list. We now have a rotisserie oven for chicken, and we've just started our "Heat-n-Eat" service that enables you to walk in, choose your food, take it home, heat it up, and serve your family a nice, hot homemade meal that's a healthy alternative to stopping at a fast food restaurant. Each serving includes one entrée, two side dishes, and bread and butter. You can choose from at least four different meat dishes, such as pork chops, breaded or grilled chicken breast, kielbasi and sauerkraut, pork roast and dumplings, roast beef, turkey, and rotisserie chicken. We also have a variety of pasta salads and hot potatoes.
From the outside Corned Beef Cafe looks small, but once you get inside you'll find we can seat almost 100 people. We have smoking and non-smoking rooms, a conference table that seats eight in the smoking side of the restaurant, and another that seats between ten and twelve in the non-smoking side. On the weekends the conference tables are always busy with larger families and groups wanting to dine together.
I have a staff that's simply fantastic! Heather, my General Manager, does a great job of taking care of everything so I can concentrate on cooking. Through the week Geri runs the counter and handles the phone, in the kitchen Alan is very fast and very consistent with his food preparation, and you'll always find our serving staff to be friendly and cheerful.
Corned Beef Cafe provides a healthy alternative to fast food, and an opportunity to taste home cooking at it's best. Stop by Corned Beef Cafe today, and don't forget to tell them The Advocate sent you!
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