The Most Diverting Direct Mail Letter Ever Written

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Jackson & Associates Unveils New Web Site!

Jackson & Associates (Property Appraisers) in Courtenay has just unveiled its slick new web site. Architexture did the design and I wrote the content.

Check it out at www.ComoxValleyAppraisers.com!




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Mad Chef Café Serves Up ‘Insane Food With Attitude!’

If you’re crazy about great food, then the new Mad Chef Café, which opened November 30 in downtown Courtenay, will make you absolutely insane!

Owner Kevin Munroe, the Mad Chef himself, wants to shake up the Comox Valley’s dining scene, and the Mad Chef Café’s eclectic menu and feisty attitude is already off to a good start.

Munroe’s lunch and dinner menu features original creations like “Tongue Tantalizing Tiny Tuna Tacos,” a hearty soup known as “Sweet Curry Meets Fruit Fury” and a massive meat-lover’s clubwich appropriately named “Animals Taste Good.”

Munroe is especially proud of his selection of 10 different burgers – er, I mean “Crazy Mental Psychotic Insane Mad Chef Burgers” – which include chicken, duck, lamb, seafood and vegetarian varieties. Then there are the seven ciabatta-bread pizzas, including the “Hawaiian Hammer,” the “Double Ducker” and the “Chicken Chicka Wow Wow.” And you can’t leave without trying the Mad Chef’s “kick-ass beer cheese.”

“It’s insane food with attitude,” says Munroe, a red seal chef who’s worked the kitchens of Valley hot spots like Atlas Café, the Kingfisher Resort and the Pier Bistro. “It’s not your ordinary menu. It’s not Italian, it’s not Mexican, it’s just awesome food with no pretension.”

Breakfast offerings include a selection of puff pastry-wrapped “Boom Boom Bennies” and freshly baked treats like espresso cinnamon buns with caramel macchiato icing. The Mad Chef has even prepared a special menu for the young’uns, and every kid gets a special chef’s hat to colour and wear at home.

Even the drink selection goes beyond the ordinary. A full espresso bar serves up hot drinks like Mad Mists and Mad Mochas and, in addition to beers, wines and coolers, the Mad Chef has pioneered the Cotton Candy Martini, which is actually made with real cotton candy. Just rip it, dip it and sip it.

“We believe in fun dining,” says co-owner Shelley Bouchard. “There’s nothing worse than going out to a restaurant where you just don’t feel comfortable, where you have to watch how you sit and which fork you use. This isn’t that kind of place. It’s a place where you can relax, be yourself and just enjoy great food with great friends.”

Other ways the Mad Chef Café is shaking things up is by offering free downtown delivery and pioneering a slightly eccentric “Mad Chef Wear” clothing line.

Chef Munroe’s unique line of “clothing with attitude,” available exclusively at the Mad Chef Café, features such memorable captions as “Tofu Ninjas Kick Ass.” The graphic depicts three SpongeBob-esque tofu nuggets kicking, punching and hurling carrot nunchuks at a defenseless donkey.

Let the insanity begin.

The Mad Chef Café is located at 492 Fitzgerald Avenue, just off Fifth. Hours are 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday through Thursday, 8 to late on Friday and Saturday and 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Sunday. For more information, call 250-871-7622 or visit www.MadChefCafe.net.





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