You guys probably knew the restaurant Crush (next to yesterdays on Park St.) that closed a few months ago. If not...wha eva. Anyway, my good friend Jon Insetta and Husband and Wife team Brian Siebenschuh and Crystal Vessels (yes, love the porn name) are re-opening the joint with a more comfortable feel and expanded menu as Restaurant Orsay and we have some awesome "teasers".
Read more at JC....
http://www.jacksonvilleconfidential.com/2008/06/restaurant-orsay-first-look.html
Imma hafta change my avatar, i totally didnt want to be associated with bananas.
But maybe they will do a JC Banana Foster
Quote from: jacksonvilleconfidential on July 10, 2008, 12:42:29 AM
Imma hafta change my avatar, i totally didnt want to be associated with bananas.
But maybe they will do a JC Banana Foster
I call shenanigans, you are totally down with bananas.
Found this tidbit posted at: http://jaxeatdrinkandbemerry.blogspot.com/
July 4 Backyard BBQ at Orsay All you can eat, $20. Barbecue at a fine restaurant in their lounge or outdoors. Slow roasted pork shoulder with a sherry vinegar barbecue jus, potato salad dressed with creme fraiche & Pommery mustard, raw oysters and fresh watermelon. Chef Brian will be grilling burgers featuring locally raised, free-grazing Duval County beef from Ashlin Farms. From 4-9 pm 381-0909 www.restaurantorsay.com
Sounds like a good idea.
Was just there last night, very tasty drinks!
I have eaten there twice but really need to check out Happy hour... :)
Quote from: 02roadking on July 02, 2009, 09:32:15 AM
Found this tidbit posted at: http://jaxeatdrinkandbemerry.blogspot.com/
July 4 Backyard BBQ at Orsay All you can eat, $20. Barbecue at a fine restaurant in their lounge or outdoors. Slow roasted pork shoulder with a sherry vinegar barbecue jus, potato salad dressed with creme fraiche & Pommery mustard, raw oysters and fresh watermelon. Chef Brian will be grilling burgers featuring locally raised, free-grazing Duval County beef from Ashlin Farms. From 4-9 pm 381-0909 www.restaurantorsay.com
I graduated highschool with the "Lin" part of Ashlin farms, neat!
Happy hour was good. Probably one of the best places in town for raw oysters... I still prefer Marks Happy hour tho...
Sounds great.
Where do they get their oysters ?
We generally offer three or four different oysters at any given time - cold water oysters from the West Coast (either Washington State or British Columbia) and East Coast (anywhere from Virginia up to Prince Edward Island), and a gulf oyster - Apalachicola or Louisiana. The barbecue was a success, turn out was more than we expected, so thanks to anybody on this board that came out - I hope you had a good time.
Stop talking about Orsay! The more you talk, the more likely the people from Orange-Tucky will find out and start rolling up 17 to fill up the parking spots with mini-vans and crocs.
(Love the place though. Happy hour prices rock and the lounge was a brilliant idea)
What is Orsay's happy hour like? I haven't been in there since the location was Crush but I keep meaning to try it out...
Quote from: Ron Mexico on July 09, 2009, 06:16:55 PM
Stop talking about Orsay! The more you talk, the more likely the people from Orange-Tucky will find out and start rolling up 17 to fill up the parking spots with mini-vans and crocs.
(Love the place though. Happy hour prices rock and the lounge was a brilliant idea)
HEY! I like my crocs!!! lol
(sandals, not clogs)
heaven forbid that the wrong type of people patronize the restaraunt. Mini Vans ugh oh so not hip!
drink specials for wine and cocktails and they have a scaled down menu. i think it is great imho. in a tough market, giving people the option of spending less than a full meal at Orsay still keeps the doors revolving. if you haven't been there since it was Crush, get over there!!
Ohhkristin, cocktail hour in the lounge is every Tuesday - Saturday, 4PM - 7PM. Half price glasses of wine, including our constantly rotating, always cool & interesting house wine selections (which are normally only five bucks, so that's $2.50). Half price draft beers - current lineup is Spaten Optimater, Hoegaarden, Maudite, Stella, Bass, and Guinness. Half price signature cocktails like the Pear Jalapeno Margarita and Blood Orange Martini, plus a couple new, summery options - Le Roi, which is a take on an Arnold Palmer featuring house-infused Secret Garden tea vodka, and the Orsay Pimm's (you can view the full cocktail list on the website, although it's a little out of date as of this writing - should be updated within a couple days).
We also offer a selection of menu items at cocktail hour pricing which is available from 4-7, plus the full menu is available from 5 o'clock on...
love orsay! great food and service and way better atmosphere than crush (not as up tight!)
Orsay has the weirdest beer lineup ever.
Elijah cocktail???? Or a beer? Ummmmm, no-brainer. If I want a beer, I'll go to Kickback's!
Not sure exactly what qualifies the current beer lineup as "weird"? Granted, the draft lineup is all European (except Maudite, which is French [Candadian :-)]), in line with our overall concept (try to keep up with the compound punctuation). We only operate six taps, but we've got a full selection of bottles as well. Our focus does admittedly run more toward our cocktail program and our wine list. That being said, the I've always thought that the draft selections covered all the stylistic bases... On the light side, there's a Belgian wheat, a Belgian pilsner, and an English ale. On the richer side, there's Guinness (possibly the finest beer produced in all the world), a German doppelbock, and the aforementioned Maudite (which is Quebecois, but would probably be classified as a Belgian style dubbel), which speaks strongly to our philosophy of mixing classic French bistro dishes with a little bit of influence from our home...
mtrain, given your current profile pic, email me and I'll commit to having Schlitz around just for you, if you like (I'm not hard to find). For that matter, tell Elijah I told you I want him to develop a Schlitz based cocktail...
:D Awesome Brian! :D
Do you have a name yet for this cocktail-o-Schlitz?
May I suggest "Idiot's Delight."
Me and my lady went here recently. Lived up to the hype IMHO.
I would be shocked and appalled if someone wanted to alter the delicious, delicate flavor of my beloved Schlitz! "just a kiss of the hops!"
Want to save the world? Well, then how about your neighborhood?
Come meet a group of people who do. And they will love to meet you.
Restaurant Orsay, Avondale, Sunday evening, January 31. 4:00pm to 7:00pm.
RAP members entitled to $2 house wines; nonmembers pay $5
A light snack menu will be available. The restaurant closes at 4pm; we'll be private from 4-7.
This event is coordinated by the RAP membership. RAP members and officers will be on hand and
will host a 30-40 minute discussion about community issues of interest to those present.
Anyone in the neighborhood is invited to attend. New RAP members can join and/or donate at the membership
table. And we'll have some classy RAP member t-shirts on sale. This event held in November drew over 120 guests and all espressed their pleasure in coming.
Sounds terrific. Orsay is such a great spot--and such a terrific supporter of their neighborhood, too. Thank you, Crystal!
where is this place? I want to bring my mini-van ;-)
Seriously tho, I'm hungry after reading the menu....