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Valley News Dispatch
["500px"]Chalkboard Cafe buyer Gary Kordes (left), and his son, administrator Chad, angle in the boilerplate of the dining allowance of their Brackenridge restaurant. In the foreground, they affectation their Beef Lo Mein with vegetable activity fry, Peanut Butter Pie, Bacon Water Chestnuts and bootleg Potato Cheese Pierogies. Eric Felack | Valley News Dispatch
BACKGROUND
A ancestor and son adapted to run a classic, comfortable pub with a assorted accumulating of affection beer. The mother of the ancestors capital a down-home booth establishment. Their visions converged to actualize the Chalkboard Café and Pub, which opened in July.
Gary and Lisa Kordes, bedmate and wife, serve as co-owners, and Lisa additionally is the arch chef. Their son, Chad, is the manager.
When Chad, 24, began to chase for a address to alive about two years ago, he and his parents articular the Brackenridgeproperty for auction at the circle of 10th Avenue and 11th Street as an option. A above Nationwide Insurance office, the century-old address bare repairs, but it showed affiance as address breadth Chad could live, and the ancestors could run a restaurant with a calm air about it.
“This is our active allowance and dining room,” Gary Kordes, 60, of Natrona Heights, says, sitting in the capital room. “We appear to accept a bar. But we're not afterwards the shot-and-the-beer crowd.”
["500px"]Lisa Kordes, 51, took the home-life abstraction one footfall further. Rather than action a accepted menu, she planned to about-face accessible dishes from one day to the next, aloof as a family's administrator changes banquet on a circadian basis. “That was allotment of the aboriginal concept, and that's what I told my husband: ‘You don't apperceive on any accustomed day, back you're active home from work, what your cogent added or apron fabricated for you,' ” Lisa Kordes says.
ATMOSPHERE
If the tables to the larboard and appropriate of the advanced aperture are ignored, the capital access to the Chalkboard Café resembles that of a approved two-story home. And few accommodation central argue a chump that he's not entering addition else's abode.
The restaurant's copse floors, adorned bottle windows and minimalist lighting accommodate assemblage a quiet, accidental setting.
There's a baby access way with a affectation case that contains banal desserts and appetizers and a stairwell that leads up to Chad's active quarters.
To the appropriate of the access way is the dining room, which usually includes below than 10 tables. And above the dining allowance is the bar area, which appearance three added tables and a custom-built, L-shaped bar. Bottle caps from easy- and hard-to-find beers sit below the bar's glass. And swiveling stools with puffy, amber seats sit forth the bar.
["500px"]One of the attributes that best aflame the Kordes ancestors about the architecture was the alfresco dining potential. A balustrade wraps about the advanced and ancillary of the property, and an covering covers all 10 tables.
When the balmy acclimate disappears, alfresco dining will abide an option. The Kordes plan to briefly enclose the balustrade and use amplitude heaters so that they still can run the restaurant at best capacity, which is about 60 bodies for now.
MENU
Customers who appointment the Chalkboard Café bound accept the acceptation abaft the restaurant's name — chalkboards are everywhere, and they account the card items.
Rather than book out a new card anniversary day, Lisa artlessly erases the items accounting on the abundant chalkboards central and alfresco and lists the new offerings. Anniversary card is appreciably altered from the one created the antecedent day.
“I would've been angrily apathetic affable the aforementioned affair every day, day-in, day-out,” says Lisa Kordes, who formed as a clothier afore the restaurant opened.
["500px"]Certain dishes are accessible at all times: beef and lamb-filled meat pies (two for $5) that appear with onions and acerb cream; aloha dogs ($4), which are brightness sausages with garlic-lemon mayo and pineapple salsa; variations of pierogies; and variations of macaroni and cheese.
But a majority of the card items appear and go aural a few days. Last Wednesday, her card included a Philly cheesesteak sub ($8), steak fajitas ($8), hot sausage on a cycle ($6) and a meatloaf sandwich ($8). But by Friday, those items gave way to a beer-battered cod sandwich ($8), a adolescent cook ($7), and pork lo mein ($8), amid others.
Those who appetite beforehand apprehension about the card can analysis the restaurant's website, chalkboard-cafe.com, or its Facebook page. Lisa posts airheaded online the night afore she makes the food. Sometimes, she won't boutique for the capacity until the day she makes the dishes.
“I'm not activity to do burgers and chips and craven wings every day,” Kordes says. “I'm activity to do acceptable whiskey craven wings (soon). And we do a aberration on a burger — we did a teriyaki pineapple burger the added day. But we're not aloof your boilerplate (pub).”
Bill West is a agents biographer for Trib Total Media. He can be accomplished at 724-543-1303 ext.1321 or wwest@tribweb.com
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