We hope you'll plan to join us for lunch or dinner on Tuesday, April 22nd, to celebrate Earth Day 2008. It will be a whole day of fun events at Lilly's, featuring vegetarian cuisine all day. For lunch, there will be a special Vegetarian Prix Fixe -- three courses of creative cuisine -- for $15. In Lilly's café, we will be honored to feature the original jewelry of Cindy Borders, celebrated regionally for her boutique creations. Cindy herself will be here from noon until 4 p.m. on April 22nd to meet you and answer questions about her work. She will be donating a portion of her sales to an Earth Day-related charity.

The star event of the day will be the evening's Vegetarian Wine Dinner, featuring the cuisine of Chef Kathy Cary, along with outstanding biodynamic and organic wines from France, Spain, and the United States. Lilly's will be partnering with Whole Foods in offering these wines, and David DuBou of Vintners Select will be on hand to answer diners' questions. (The menu and wine list follows.)

For the evening's celebration, jeans are the suggested attire. The dinner will be $45 per guest, for a four-course, five-wines feast beginning at 7 p.m. Reservations are now being taken – so reserve your space soon, and celebrate Earth Day at Lilly's!



Vegetarian Wine Dinner Menu

Reception
•Vegetarian Spring Roll, Pear Dipping Sauce
•Bordelet Poire Authentique, Loire Valley (biodynamic) 2005

1st Course
•Fingerling Potato Salad, Kenny’s Gouda on Kentucky Bibb, Citrus Vinaigrette, Indiana Maple & Balsamic Drizzle
•Lolonis Fume Blanc, Redwood Valley (certified organic) 2005

2nd Course
•Veggie Cake, Carrot Miso Ginger Sauce, Fresh Peas, Oakwood Farm Broccoli Micro Greens
•Atalayas de Golban Ribera del Duero (biodynamic) 2004

3rd Course
• Fava & Lima Bean Fennel Cassoulet, Grilled Horseshoe Bend Shiitakes Stuffed with Quinoa, Capriole Goat Cheese
•Clot de L'Oum “La Compagnie des Papillons” (certified organic) 2004

Dessert
• Orange Madelines, Strawberry, Sabayon, & Creme Fraiche
•Grande Maison Monbazillac (biodynamic) NV

Events

On April 22nd -- Celebrate "Earth Day" at Lilly's!
Jackson's Organic Coffee creates a unique "Lilly's Roast"
Lilly's Begins "OpenTable" Reservations Service
Lilly's and La Peche Offer a Handsome Gift Certificate

Lilly's is proud to announce that Jackson's Organic Coffee of Louisville is its new coffee supplier. Jackson's has created a special, unique "Lilly's Roast," just for the restaurant. This is an exciting partnership for us in many ways, not least because of the word-of-mouth buzz that's been reaching us in the past weeks. Even the proprietor of our neighborhood UPS store asked Kathy Cary the other day, "What kind of coffee do you serve?" When she told him "Jackson's Organic," he said a number of people had told him to head straight for Lilly's for a cup – that it was fantastic!

Jackson's sources organically-grown "green," unroasted coffee beans from Indonesia Mexico, Sumatra, Ethiopia, and Papua New Guinea, among other countries, and hand-roasts them in small seven-pound lots. "With a small roaster," they say, "we can control every aspect of the roast down to the most minute detail."

Another reason that we're excited about teaming up with Jackson's is the close alignment of our two philosophies. Listen to the Jackson's owners as they speak for themselves: "We believe the social, environmental and economic benefit of sustainable business not only supports the coffee farms and the welfare of the workers, land and water, but compels us to be a sustainable business in our own community."

"We get our coffee from small farms that don't have exposure to the global market," they continue. "Our goal is to find those small farms and support the individual farmers."

These ideals are totally aligned with they way Kathy Cary has thought of and dealt with regional farmers for many years. As our menu proclaims, "God Bless Our Local Farmers!"

"Whenever you buy from us you are helping to support these small farms. Jackson's Organic Coffee considers the Farmer Producers that grow our beans as partners in our business." You can visit some of these small farms on the Internet by going first to Jackson's website at www.jacksonsorganiccoffee.com and clicking on the "Why It Matters" section.

Fascinatingly, their coffee offerings rotate seasonally, depending on what is available. "Tomatoes are good in August but not December, right?" they add. The similarity between Jackson's and Lilly's couldn't be plainer. We're proud to serve their coffee.

Lilly's is proud to announce that the restaurant now offers you the option of making your reservations through the "OpenTable" online service. If you'd prefer to reserve your table with us via Internet rather than the old telephone, simply use this Make an Online Reservation link (which also appears in the purple bar at left) to make your reservations online. The OpenTable website will direct you in a few easy steps. This convenience means that you don't have to wait until we're at the restaurant and answering the phone, to actually reserve your table: you can do it anytime, seven days a week, 24 hours a day.

OpenTable introduced real-time online reservations to the restaurant industry in 1998. Dining consumers can tap into the OpenTable network and make reservations, and also through the company's many distribution and content partners - including America Online, The New York Times, The Chicago Tribune and The Los Angeles Times. More than 4,000 of the nation's top restaurant are part of this network. The OpenTable website will provide you with all the information you need.

You'll be proud to give a gift of Lilly's culinary creations via our new gift certificate — a handsome color reproduction, on heavy glossy card stock, showing John Nash's depiction of the Royal Pavilion, Brighton, in the mid-1820's.

Kathy has loved this image for a long time, and chose it specially to represent a gift from her kitchens, because it depicts the wonderful kitchen of George IV's palace by the sea, completed when he was Prince Regent of England. She first saw it as a postcard sent to her from her parents who were staying in England, and likes to speculate on her possible relationship to Nash, her maiden name.

For the Prince Regent, who was given that title in 1811 while he took the place of his ailing father, George III, John Nash created a place out of an Indian fantasy, with an interior boasting the "Chinese look." Generous use is made of bamboo in the building's furniture and wall decoration (note the wonderful bamboo-like trunks of the tree columns holding up the ceiling in the Pavilion kitchens).

This is an appropriate image for a Lilly's gift card, for it hints at the wonders of the cuisine coming from our own kitchens. In January of 1817, the Prince held a banquet there, the menu of which lists 112 dishes, including 36 entrees. Dining at Lilly's is a bit simpler, but no less adventurous and rewarding!