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Regular Restaurant Hours: Winter

Lunch: Wednesday & Thursday (limited menu, no service, take out/eat here)
Lunch: Full service, full menu:
 
Fridays - Sundays
11-3pm
 
Dinner:
Friday & Saturday
5-8:30pm
 

Grocery Hours
Wed thru Sunday: 

11-4pm
Open late Fridays & Saturdays till 8pm 

164 Highway 4
Murphys, CA 95247
209-728-1164

Mailing address:
PO Box 2052
Murphys, CA 95247
 
2015 CSA BOX DELIVERIES CSA      
Introducing our Personal Shopper option. Want to receive a delivery and choose your ingredients? You can now customize your delivery and get exactly what you'd like by choosing from our comprehensive list. Check out our  produce list here.
  Questions?
 

Weekly or bi-weekly deliveries to:
  • Tuolumne County
  • Calaveras County
  • Alpine County
  • Amador: Jackson, Amador City and coming soon: Pinegrove and  Plymouth 
Benefits of Becoming a CSA Member:
  • Enjoy local and seasonal fruits and veggies all year round
  • Fresh, high quality, home-grown flavor
  • Bi-weekly fall, winter and spring deliveries to convenient drop off locations near you
  • Your choice of the size bag for your needs: mini, basic and full sizes. Add on fruit, roots, and greens
  • Access our on-line web store  
  • Vacation when you are out of town
  • Supplement your own garden, you grow greens: we have roots and fruits!
  • Lower your carbon footprint. Save gas, we deliver to you
  • Support local growers, producers and makers.
 
Recipe of the Week

 

 Potato, Leek & Oyster Mushroom Gratin 

 

   

Leeks, potatoes & mushrooms make up the basis for this wonderful winter dish!  

 

 

Get the recipe here

 

Check out all recipes we've posted here

 

What do you think?
We'd love your feedback!  What do you think of our website, this newsletter, or our social media pages? Tell us what you think; we'd love your thoughts as we move into making our website the resource we want it to be, and build the newsletter as your connection to the community each week.

 
We won an award:

Category: Restaurant
For our farm to fork model, garden tours and farmers market

Thank you Voters!!
 
Greetings 
!

Here we are again, now getting the garlic in the ground. Cover crops are in, peas are planted and the garden cleanup is complete.


What's next, you might ask? The fun task of ordering seeds and beginning the first pepper seedlings in early February.

Martin Luther King Jr said "The arc of moral justice is long but it bends towards justice". It is our pleasure to host a Sunday night Prix Fixe in honor of this special weekend...please see below!

You may be interested to find out about the FoCuS Seed Share event on Saturday February, 21st @ 10 am, Columbia Elementary School. This is an amazing opportunity to get heirloom seeds and support this organization that is working towards sustainability education in our area. 

By April 2015 we will be incorporated, and by the end of fall 2015 we will be a Certified B Corporation.

Interested to learn more? Looking for an amazing investment opportunity? We invite you to email us!


RESTAURANT HOURS
& WINTER VACATION 

  • LUNCH: WEDNESDAY, THURSDAY (Limited menu, no service)
  • LUNCH: (full service, full menu): FRIDAY, SATURDAY, SUNDAY
  • DINNER (full service):Friday & Saturday nights; Prix Fixe: Sunday January 18th (see invite below)

Grocery will stay open Wednesday and Thursday to 4pm. Late night shopping on Fridays and Saturdays till 8pm.   

  

 Restaurant Closed for Winter Break  

(Grocery & CSA remain open)

   

 January 28th - February 5th

 

 
Special Event Catering

We have an amazing location and a ready staff to make your next special event really fun! Rehearsal Dinner, Birthday, Staff party, social get together, seminar, workshop or conference....we can cater to your needs. Please inquire about our pricing and menu offerings.
 
With our change to winter hours we are open to event bookings Wednesday and Thursday all day and evening as well as Sunday afternoons and evenings. Our location right next to the Murphys' Suites is ideal. For bookings and inquiries contact Rose, Restaurant Manager @ 728-1164.
Music Offerings

Martin Luther King Jr. Weekend:
In celebration of this amazing person...we present two amazing events:

Saturday, January 17th

Reggae nite returns....10 pm to 1pm

Back by popular demand...a fun evening of socializing and dancing!


Sunday, January 18th 
Prix Fixe $40 per person

4 courses of delicious nourishment  
from Chef Mitchell and his team

PRIX FIXE DINNER 
$40/person Enjoy Calaveras Wine pairing $15

MENU:

1st Course
POTATO LEEK SOUP
TRUFFLE OIL / BEE POLLEN
Recommended pairing: Hovey Rosato

2nd Course
APPLE FENNEL SALAD
BUTTERHEAD LETTUCE / CANDIED WALNUTS PT REYES BLEU / ROASTED PEAR VINAIGRETTE Recommended pairing: Bunting Reserve Roussanne

3rd Course
(your choice of entrée)
(vegetarian & vegan option available)

EEL RIVER MARINATED SKIRT STEAK
GRASS-FED & FINISHED / BACON BRAISED BRUSSELS SPROUTS / STICKY YUKON GOLD POTATOES / BACON BORDELAISE Recommended pairing: Val du Vino Pinot Noir

DUCK CONFIT ROULADE
SONOMA-GROWN LIBERTY DUCK TRUFFLE RISOTTO / POACHED EGG / BROWN BUTTER BEARNAISE / BACON JAM / MICRO SALAD Recommended pairing: Ayrael Vieux Montepulciano

GRILLED ALASKAN SALMON
WILD-CAUGHT SOCKEYE / HACHIYA PERSIMMON / PINK LADY APPLES / BACON RISOTTO / CARAMELIZED LEEKS / SUN SHOOTS Recommended pairing: Frog's Tooth White Meritage

4th Course
PEAR CASHEW NAPOLEON
DARK CHOCOLATE GANACHE / PASTRY CREAM
Recommended pairing: Tanner Sparkling Wine, Brut
Reservations highly recommended  
5:00 to 8pm
 

Join us in welcoming local musician Nate Frazier, The Experimentalist, he'll be performing 
from 6:30 to 8:30pm



Saturday, February 14th
Valentine's Dinner
5 pm - 8 pm 
Make your reservations now for Saint Valentine's Day


Join us for a memorable evening with that special person in your life....menu and pricing coming shortly. 
 


 

Mouth watering dinner delights.....

New menu this weekend: Beer & Pretzels, Grass Fed Beef skirt steak, Seared Sonoma Duck breast, Spinach and Kale Parmesan dip....

 

We upload our menus online!

   Check our facebook page 

 

 

Seasonal Highlights
Click each of the items below and find recipes on our website!
  
Wheelbarrow of purple cabbage, October 2014  
 
Veggies from the Farm: Kale,  carrots, cilantro, collards, radishes, butternut, cabbage, parsley, braising greens.

Fruit:
Apples (fuji, pink lady, granny), pears,  oranges: cara cara, blood, satsuma, limes, lemons, avocado, grapefruit, kiwi.

From 150 mile radius ...winter squash (spaghetti, blue ballet), broccoli, celery, celery root, rutabaga, beets, spinach, spring mix, leeks, Garnet sweet potatoes, potatoes, shallots, onions, garlic, shittake, oyster mushroom, ginger, kohlrabi, fennel, lettuce. 
 
 

 Check out all of our latest recipes online here

  
Community Supported Agriculture:

Here's what one of our customer's told us the other week:

"I'm a super busy, working, single woman and LOVE fresh food but end up only getting to the grocery or farmers markets once a month.  Your service has brought back fresh eating into my world and I am so thankful."  
JoLynn

She gets a delivery on a regular basis - would you like to get one too?
For questions contact our CSA & Grocery Manger, Kaedence: outeraisle@gmail.com

 

Outer Aisle FARMERS KITCHEN, MARKET & PUB. "growing food, feeding community". 

Behind the scenes of Outer Aisle is Taylor Farms. Located on Main Street, Douglas Flat, our nearly two acre "beyond organic" farm produces a large variety of seasonal vegetables including these seasonal highlights: summer heirloom tomatoes, fall cauliflower, winter carrots and spring potatoes to name just a few! 

Outer Aisle also operates a year round CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) program. We distribute the highest quality, local, seasonal and regional produce and products to members all over Calaveras and Tuolumne Counties. We only purchase product from farms and producers who are committed to ecologically sustainable practices and go beyond the National "Organic" standards.
COMMUNITY SUPPORTED AGRICULTURE 

We invite you to be a member of our CSA. Community Supported Agriculture is more than a statement of support it's an amazing way to connect your palate with seasonal eating on a regular basis.
 
Where the food comes from?

People ask us all the time is our produce "organic" and while we are tempted to just say yes and let the organic definition tell the story we don't. We are not certified "organic" and to use the word as a casual expression would get us into trouble. We believe that our practice of stewardship goes beyond what is required under the "organic" label. We are committed to caring for the soil and the micro-organisms that so skillfully maintain fertility so that plants can thrive. And above all, we have a direct connection with our customers and invite you to come out to the fields on one of our farm tours. 

Thank you to those pioneering farmers who worked for years, at first alone and then together, to stand firm in ensuring the adoption of strict regulations for what was to become a multi-billion dollar industry. Over the years since "organic" moved to a national standard some of those regs have been "watered" down to allow the larger industrial farms to get a piece of the dollar pie.

We love it that the farmers who were the originators of organic are the predominant producers of the food that we eat, we sell and we cook. 

Those pioneering farmers are still doing what they have always done: adhering to their own high standards of organic and going beyond what is required. Full Belly Farm, Terra Firma, Coke Farms are three of the original pioneers that supply us with produce at times when our garden is not producing. They are advocates of a sustainable approach and even though they are certified organic their practices are what nurtures community: soil and people! 

Those pioneers are inspiring the younger generation and we are proud also to complement our produce with those from up and coming organic farms like Tomatero in Watsonville.


Enjoy seasonal produce and the insurance that what you eat comes from farms that practice diversity, stewardship and are pioneers of good health.