Chez Lin & Rays: Hiring Now as Opening Approaches

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 The new Essex Shipyard restaurant is on track for its June 1st opening this summer! We’ve told you about how the former Rudder Club has been transformed and have been keeping you updated on the approaching opening of the new restaurant Chez Lin & Rays. Now it’s time to share the restaurant’s progress again! Hear the current [...]

Grange Community Kitchen: James Graves Teaches Tortilla Making

Monday, May 6 at 6pm Tortilla Making and Mexican Dinner At Whallonsburg Grange Hall Celebrate Seis de Mayo! Come and learn the art of making homemade tortillas to accompany a variety of Mexican based fillings and then share the scrumptious results. You can create your own fillings to suit your palate. James Graves from Full and [...]

Essex Ice Cream Cafe Hiring

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Essex Ice Cream Cafe is growing this year and next.  We are looking for someone to help run the cafe this summer with an eye toward expansion in 2014. We will also be developing a line of products for larger distribution. Essex Farm Store As well we need help developing the Farm Store retail concept [...]

Essex Inn: Save the Manatee Pancake Breakfast

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Sunday, April 14th 9am to noon At the Essex Inn on the Adirondack Coast Help! A bunch of terribly cute and excited 10 year-old kids are taking over the Essex Inn! The kids want to save the Florida manatees from the dangers of the current Red Tide problem. They invite YOU to come help! Join [...]

Grange Community Kitchen: Pickling Beets

Monday, April 22 at 6pm Pickling Beets At Whallonsburg Grange Hall Suggested donation: $5 The next class presented by the Grange Community Kitchen will be Monday, April 22 at 6pm! Learn how to pickle beets. Join Barbara Kunzie, master food preservationist and farmer, in a class that’s all about beets. Sweet spring beets, hearty winter beets [...]

Rudder Club Becomes Chez Lin & Rays

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Hopefully you’ve already heard the great news: Linda and Ray Faville, who also ran the Essex Shipyard last summer, will be opening a new restaurant at the shipyard this summer! If you’re as excited as we are, then you want to know more. Well, we at the Essex on Lake Champlain blog have checked in with [...]

Wadhams Library Benefit: Dogwood Brunch

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Wadhams Free Library and Dogwood Bread Company Sunday Brunch ~ April 14, 10am – 1pm A Sourdough Waffle and Frittata Extravaganza to benefit our Library    Brunch will be at the Dogwood Bakery in Wadhams, NY. Profits will go to benefit the Wadhams Free Library! Come to enjoy a delicious meal and support one of our local [...]

Summer Restaurant to Open at Essex Shipyard

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The Essex Shipyard Marina has been repaired and updated after the horrible flooding of 2011. Linda and Ray Faville, who also ran the Essex Shipyard last summer, are promising a great new treat: the Essex Shipyard will be opening a restaurant this summer! Essex Shipyard was recently renovated to provide boaters with safe, modern and convenient [...]

Adirondack Pie and Mille Crêpes

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Whereas I’m almost certain I’ve never wolfed down a wedge of authentic Adirondack Pie (not yet, at least), I have vivid memories of a similar desert comprised of impossibly thin crêpes lathered with crème Chantilly, stacked almost two inches high, drizzled with maple syrup, and eaten warm. I can visualize this indulgence as I type. In [...]

Essex Inn New Year’s Eve

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New Year’s Eve celebration at the Essex Inn on the Adirondack Coast. Monday, December 31, 2012. The Dinner Dinner hour seating for Monday night will be from 5:00 pm to 10:00 pm. The dinner menu for the evening boasts Lobster Tail, Grilled Eggplant Capri, Chilean Sea Bass, and Greek Stuffed Chicken Breast. Every entree purchase [...]