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King Cake Time!!!  Mary Beth Addington, our FANTASTIC pastry chef, and her "krewe" are pumping out the king cakes for carnival season.  Our rich, buttery king cakes for Mardi Gras starting Weds. January 27th through Fat Tuesday, February 16th. 

If you have had one of ours, then you know.  If you haven't, you are missing out.  REAL butter, REAL almond pastry cream, HAND made...  there is huge difference... like comparing an AMC Gremlin to a Mercedes Benz.  Really. 

Order yours ahead by sending an e-mail to montiem@broadstbakery.com  or by clicking Download King Cake Order form.

Dine with us and the Women's Fund will get 10% of your bill!

The Community Foundation of Greater Jackson is partnering with our restaurants to provide twelve nonprofit organizations the chance to raise money from their supporters... just by eating out!

 

The Community Foundation of Greater Jackson (CFGJ)  is excited about a new initiative for 2010 as they work to help their Nonprofit Partners raise awareness about their respective endowment funds held in trust by the CFGJ.   We have agreed to help the CFGJ raise both awareness and a little "seed money"... read on to find out how!

Each month, our three restaurants will feature one of the CFGJ’s twelve Nonprofit Partners.  For two consecutive days - the first Tuesday and Wednesday of each month - all guests who dine with us (or order take out)  and present a special coupon upong payment, will trigger a donation of 10% of the total of their bill to that month's featured partner's fund held by the Community Foundation!!

We think it’s a win-win.  Eat out, have money donated to a favorite nonprofit... what a concept!  And all you have to do is print and present each month's coupon! 
They’ll be available at www.cfgreaterjackson.org,  www.broadstbakery.com, www.salandmookies.com and www.bravobuzz.com.  This month's is displayed above!

“We at the Community Foundation are thrilled about the opportunity to help strengthen our Nonprofit Partners through this project.  We think this year-long effort is not only a way to help the nonprofits for whom we hold funds, but also to raise awareness about the importance of endowed giving. These organizations’ endowment funds will ensure that their good work can continue forever. We’re grateful that the Mangia Bene team of restaurants realizes the importance of investing in our community and the work of the Foundation.” 
   
 -Doug Boone, President and CEO, Community Foundation of Greater Jackson

You be the chef.... tell us what to put on the new Broad Street menu!

You helped us through our foundation construction, braving those porta-potties...

You supported us through the water crisis and met us at the front door to buy coffee and pastry when we got our water pressure back...

Now can you help us once more?

We want to change our menu

and we want YOU to be the chef!!! 

Tell us what you would would like to see!

Different sandwiches? New salads? Side dishes? Dinner entrees? 

What about dessert, cookies and pastries?

Want to send a link to a favorite restaurant and it’s menu for us to review?

Want to share a picture of a sandwich from somewhere else?

Or a morning pastry from that trip to France?

E-mail us at jeffg@bravobuzz.com  or danb@bravobuzz.com  

Using facebook? Post a comment or upload a photo to www.facebook.com/broadstreetcafe

Tweet it out loud to @broadstreetcafe

However you do it, we would LOVE to hear from you! 

YOU are why we bake each night and serve each day... help us make Broad Street EVERYTHING you would like it to be... give us YOUR ideas! 

WE have WATER and we are OPEN! *whew*...let's not do that again!

Ladies and Gentlemen... we have liftoff!   BROAD STREET IS OPEN!  Thank you to the 20 friends that walked through our doors in the first 10 minutes!  The restaurant smells like a bakery... the low rumble of excited conversations at each table fill the space with life.  We are so thankful to be back UP and running!  Thank you all!!!!

Here is a picture of our 6 o'clock crew putting out all the fresh bread and pastry... everyone is so happy to be BACK TO WORK!

Water Crisis details... we are closed today due to Mother Nature & Yazoo Clay

We were the first to open after Katrina.

We opened the minute the power came on after the North Jackson Tornado.

We have stayed open through countless boil water alerts and power outages over the 16 years we have been blessed to serve our guests here in Jackson.

But this time, Mother Nature and that troublesome Yazoo clay wins. 

With an estimate of 80 water line breaks in the City of Jackson water system (full Clarion Ledger article here) we have zero water pressure at Broad Street, BRAVO! and Sal & Mookie's.   Yes, we are stocked up with bottled water and soft drinks, but we simply cannot service our guests without the abiltiy to wash up, use the restrooms, and the like.

We are hopeful that today's good weather will allow the hard working City of Jackson work crews to make headway and get water pressure back.  Once we have water pressure, we will reopen under a boil water situation where we will only use and serve sterilized water.

So, thank you for understanding... thank you for being patient.  If you have catering orders with us, we are contacting you by phone to make arrangements... we are keeping our commitments today and producing that which we can.  We would NEVER leave you high and dry. 

Well... dry maybe... just today.  (hee hee... couldn't resist!)

Keep the faith,

Jeff & Dan and the 176 members of the Mangia Bene family