Day: April 30, 2017

Mother’s Day specials

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Bakery Lorraine is one of the area restaurants that will have special offers for Mother’s Day. Photo: Bakery Lorraine, used with permission.

Mother’s Day is coming up on Sunday May 14 and area restaurants and businesses are offering specials to celebrate Mom on her special day. Some of these include Boiler House, Bakery Lorraine, Hotel Contessa, Southerleigh, Hotel Emma, Paramour and Krause’s Cafe. Detailed information is available online. (Giant Noise, 2017)

Boiler House will have specialty Mother’s Day menu and regular brunch items served on Sunday. Brunch Entrees include Lobster and chorizo benedict, Texas bison Frito Pie and Crab Louie quiche. Dessert consists of coconut cream pie with Italian meringue and topped with toasted almonds and fresh shaved coconut
Brunch hours are from 10 a.m. to 3p.m.

Bakery Lorraine will have special pastries available on days leading up to and on Mother’s Day including Raspberry Rose Japonaise: A beautifully spiraled macaroon filled with Raspberry Rose mascarpone cream and fresh raspberries garnished with a rose petal and another raspberry. Bakery Lorraine will also have special macaron flavors for Mother’s Day priced at $3 each.
Business hours are 7 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Hotel Contessa’s restaurant, Las Ramblas, is offering a special Mother’s Day brunch on Sunday between 11 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. and reservations are required. Prices is $55 per person, $20 per children ages 6-13 and free for children under 5.
Brunch hours are 5 p.m. to 10 p.m.

Southerleigh will be offering its full brunch selection and each mom will receive a complimentary signature glass of Rosé Sangria.
Brunch hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Hotel Emma:
Supper will be offering complimentary Sangria and Frose and non-alcoholic Strawberry Shrub all day long. Supper hours are: Brunch: 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. and Dinner: 5 p.m. to 10 p.m.
Larder will be offering all Mothers a complimentary coffee or a glass of wine on the patio with every purchase. Larder hours are 7 a.m. to 8 p.m.

Paramour will have a specialty cocktail menu, “Mother’s Medicine Bag” and a Champagne and Rosé menu, “A Toast to Mom,” serviced by a glass and by the bottle. Paramour will also have special charcuterie boards.

Krause’s Cafe will have a special Mother’s Day menu and regular menu items served on Sunday for both brunch and lunch. All meals include a fresh squeezed orange juice mimosa. Brunch Entrees include Nutella Stuffed Pancakes for $10, served with fresh strawberries and maple syrup and Fresh Market Quiche for $11. Lunch Entrees include Crab Cake Salad or Sandwich for $14 and Grilled Pesto Shrimp with Summer vegetable risotto for $20.
Brunch hours are 7 a.m. to 11 a.m. and lunch hours are 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

New release: ‘Golden Prey’ by John Sandford

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‘Golden Prey’ is the new Davenport novel by John Sandford. Photo: Barnes & Noble

John Sandford is the pseudonym for John Roswell Camp, a former journalist turned best-selling author of thriller novels, short stories and non-fiction books. His first two novels of the Kidd series were written under his real name but when he started the Prey series he published under John Sandford. He has written the Prey series, the Kidd series, the Virgil Flowers series and the Singular Menace series but the Prey series has proved the most popular. It features Lucas Davenport, a former detective with the Minneapolis Police Department who is known for his unorthodox and manipulative behavior as a detective. Throughout the series, he has also worked as a Deputy Chief, an investigator for the Minnesota Department of Public Safety’s Bureau of Criminal Apprehension and later as a United States Marshall. The twenty-seventh Prey novel, “Golden Prey,” was released this month and Lucas Davenport is back in his first case as a U.S. Marshall which sends him into uncharted territory.

According to Amazon, in “Golden Prey” Davenport ends up in Biloxi, Mississippi where a drug cartel counting house has been robbed and suitcases full of cash have disappeared. Five bodies are left behind including one of a six-year-old girl and the case quickly spirals out of control. Things go from bad to worse as cartel assassins, including a torturer known as the “Queen of home-improvement tools” and Davenport get caught up in a race to find the Dixie Hicks shooters who hit the counting house. They do not care who Davenport is so he must solve the case before he ends up another victim of the cartel and the men who held up the counting house.