Here is a step by step guide to the addicting Hobby
Of creating your own restaurant style Menu.
I'd like to thank former Chef Cyrille Wendling of Tradition Restaurant for teaching me this fun craft, which has become a ritual habit, when I am bored. Try it, and save your menus, on that rainy day, it will make you smile!
1. One 8x10 sheet of paper and a colored marker
Sometimes I rip out a page from an old magazine, with a blank space, instead to recycle.
2. Take a look in you Cupboard, and in the Fridge,
See which ingredients you have for one week.
Each week, the restaurant changes the menu based on availability of produce and herbs and spices.
3. Chose a name for your restaurant, it can be witty
Or just how your mood is and add Cafe Bistro, Restaurant or lounge to the name, this will be the first line on the paper.
For instance:
I see stars, Gastro Bistro
4. Now chose who will be the chef! Chef Robin Fox
If you
Have a good friend make them a sus chef!
Chef Neeraj Majani
and Alex Karas ( No one will see your menu, so have fun dedicating your menu to your contacts)
5. Write L'Menu on the very Top of the page
6. You won't have room to say anything about the theme
So save that for the cover or the back cover
7. Go right into the dishes that you will prepare starting
With Appetizers, Beverages, Main Course Dessert and A la Carte Soups and Salads (I name the salads after my pets and friends too. You can put sides, if you have them prepared or in a jar.
Now when you are hungry, read your menu and you know what you have left to make the dishes on the menu! Its like having a little restaurant in your kitchen.
I found some of my MENU's before I started to personalize them, so you can see how they started out for me, these are from 2005!
Of creating your own restaurant style Menu.
I'd like to thank former Chef Cyrille Wendling of Tradition Restaurant for teaching me this fun craft, which has become a ritual habit, when I am bored. Try it, and save your menus, on that rainy day, it will make you smile!
1. One 8x10 sheet of paper and a colored marker
Sometimes I rip out a page from an old magazine, with a blank space, instead to recycle.
2. Take a look in you Cupboard, and in the Fridge,
See which ingredients you have for one week.
Each week, the restaurant changes the menu based on availability of produce and herbs and spices.
3. Chose a name for your restaurant, it can be witty
Or just how your mood is and add Cafe Bistro, Restaurant or lounge to the name, this will be the first line on the paper.
For instance:
I see stars, Gastro Bistro
4. Now chose who will be the chef! Chef Robin Fox
If you
Have a good friend make them a sus chef!
Chef Neeraj Majani
and Alex Karas ( No one will see your menu, so have fun dedicating your menu to your contacts)
5. Write L'Menu on the very Top of the page
6. You won't have room to say anything about the theme
So save that for the cover or the back cover
7. Go right into the dishes that you will prepare starting
With Appetizers, Beverages, Main Course Dessert and A la Carte Soups and Salads (I name the salads after my pets and friends too. You can put sides, if you have them prepared or in a jar.
Now when you are hungry, read your menu and you know what you have left to make the dishes on the menu! Its like having a little restaurant in your kitchen.
I found some of my MENU's before I started to personalize them, so you can see how they started out for me, these are from 2005!