It's Fat Tuesday!
Today is Fat Tuesday, the day before Ash Wednesday. Most people think that Fat Tuesday is the end of Mardi Gras. In reality Fat Tuesday is Mardi Gras (Literally translate, Mardi Gras is French for Fat Tuesday.) This marks the
end of Carnival and is designated by counting 47 days before Easter. At the Uptown we will be offering several seafood specials on Ash Wednesday and every Friday during the Lent Season, both lunch through dinner. -- Kris
- Fried Oyster Po' Boy 8.75
- Fish Tacos - Black Bean Corn Salsa - starting at 6.75
- Fish and chips - OHara's Irish Red Ale Battered - 9.75
- Homemade Tortelacci - White Wine Cream Sauce - 13.50
- Mixed Seafood Grill - 4oz Lobster, Grilled Salmon, Whitefish Parma - 19.75
- Broiled Lobster Tail - 10oz - 29.75
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Uptown's Wine Cellar
While building a serious wine list you need to be able to store wines
in an environment that can enhance their flavor and not damage it. In the
last few years the shipping and storage of wines has been receiving a much
greater amount of attention. All the wine merchants we currently purchase from guaranty
that their wines have been handled properly and at the correct temperatures. Deep
below our 105 year old building, lies our wine cellar. The cellar stores our
wines at the ideal 55-60 degrees. In all we have about 80
different wines that we cellar. - Jimmy
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 Enjoy our new
"Tea Menu"
- Ray
The flavors that we currently have are
- Ceylon Tea: Lighter then most black teas. It is a rich and flavorful tea suitable for any time of day.
- Earl Grey Tea: Flavored with real bergamot oil extracted from the rind of bergamot oranges.
- English Breakfast Tea: It gets its "breakfast" namesake from its strong, heavy flavor and dark color. It is also strong enough to take the addition of milk and sugar. Regular and Decaf
- Spiced Chai Tea: A multitude of fine black teas with six different spices to create a true spiced chai for real tea lovers.
- Sechung Oolong Tea: Grown in the Southern Mountains of China's Fujian Province, it produces a lively infusion with a very pleasing taste.
- Jasmine Green Tea It features 1st grade green tea leaves that are lightly scented with jasmin blossoms to create a very aromatic and flavorful infusion.
- Japan Sencha Green Tea: Japan Sencha is a popular green tea from Japan.
- Rooibos Tea : Rooibos contains no caffeine, and provides plenty of health benefits that have made it a very popular alternative to tea in recent years. . Rooibos brews up a naturally sweet, dark red infusion.
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Menu items that you should get to know...
 Roasted Del Caribe Cheese As a somewhat regular section on our newsletter we will try
to re-introduce you to items that we might not sell a lot of but we think are excellent
choices. As our menu has evolved over 23 years the hardest thing about making a
change is deciding what to take off. There were display's of civil disobedience
for example when we took the Mexican Club, Shrooms and Turkey Burgers of the
menu. We don't like to retire menu items, especially the good ones.
Roasted Del Caribe is a very firm, very mild buttery flavored
Mexican cheese. It will hold its shape while cooking and can even be cooked
on a char grill. We roast the cheese and place on a bed of our housemade salsa,
and serve it with a side basket of freshly fried corn tortillas. The Del Caribe
cheese is also offered as a great vegetarian fajita selection, or as a
combination with the beef, chicken, shrimp or portobello mushroom fajitas. - Ryan
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Parmigiano- Reggiano
Parmigiano-Reggiano is a hard, fat granular cheese,
cooked but not pressed, named after the producing areas of Parma, Reggio Emilia, Modena, Bologna, in Emilia-Romagna, and Mantova, in Lombardy, Italy. Parmigiano is simply the Italian
adjective for Parma; the French version, Parmesan, is used in the English
language. The term Parmesan is also loosely used as a common term for cheeses imitating true Parmesan
cheese, especially outside Europe; within Europe, the Parmesan name is
classified as a protected designation of origin. It comes in
20lb wheels and is stamped stating authenticity.
Once you have tried real "Reggiano" no other
parmesan taste the same on your pasta. It has a rich, almost nutty flavor. It
goes great with our spaghetti bolognaise and or special pastas. It is much harder
than most cheeses. In this picture we are using a rubber mallet and sharp chisel
to cut it into chunks that fit into a cheese grater that we bring to the table.
The rind is too hard to grate so we will generally use it in sauces to give
them a little bit of extra richness. It is also very expensive and averages
about 5 times the price of regular parmesan.
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UPTOWN ON MYSPACE
For more information on shows at the Playlist Theater, you can click on the link below to take you to Uptown's myspace page. We also play music by upcoming artists and give you information on seating and dining in the theater.
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Mon - Thur 11 am to 10pm
Fri & Sat 11 am to 11 pm
Sun Noon to 10 pm
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