Pronto Cooking School

Greetings to our friends…. I hope you have been able to spend the Thanksgiving celebrations with your family and friends… And of course enjoying lots of good food.I have posted a calendar of fun, informative classes for the month of December. Click over to calender to checkout the details. Included are lots of Italian Holiday dishes and the return of Bill Smith’s bread baking class the 16th and 17th … Including bagels!! Our bullet classes, making dinner for two in an hour and half, are Thursday the 15th and 22nd and Friday the 9th and the 30th. Classes for children during school vacation are Wednesday the 28th and Thursday the 29th.

You can sign up by e-mail and will receive a conformation. We need a 6 person minimum to host the class and you may pay by credit card, or mail a check. Classes are non-refundable.

Dim Sum Sundays are the 4th, 11th, and 18th…Love our Dim Sum? Then be sure to head on in…Come January, Dim Sum is over and a new Sunday menu begins.

Hoping to see you at Pronto… Enjoy the holiday season… Cheers…

Elyse

 

We have been having a super summer here at Pronto. The Cafe is very happy busy and if you have not been in to sit in the garden and enjoy a cool glass of Rose with our beautiful, tasty lunch menu I wish you would. We have many very healthy, vegetariaan selections everyday along with our dumplings, scallion pancakes and killer good spring and summer rolls.

Many of you have found us at the Lenox Farmers Market on Friday, where beautiful Fiona is selling many things off our menu so you can just take home dinner. Yummy samples too!

We managed to have a few classes this summer but the cafe did take over some of our cooking classes times. So we are retooling for fall and will begin classes again in mid September. Bread baking will back as well…one Friday/Saturday a month thru December.

In October we will launch our after school program for children. They will be one afternoon a week for 6 weeks. We will have two age groups – 5 to 9 year olds and 10 to 14.  These are very hands on classes, learning correct cooking techniques and learning about the value of good, healthy eating.

So for now please come enjoy the cafe and if you sign up on our e mail list you will get an e mail update with the details. Thank you for your continued support…we all appreicate it!

 

Our Asian-inspired Dim Sum Café is now open every Wednesday – Sunday, 11:30 to 4:00 (That’s Wed/Thurs/Fri/Sat/Sun DIM SUM!) . Many café items available in our to-go refrigerator. Come on in for lunch, an afternoon bite, or just to say “Hi!” and see what’s cooking. We had a great spread out today for the crew from Studio Two – Check out the photos! – this could be you!

 

Bread Baking 101

We made it thru one of the longest, snowiest winters in a long time. Yesterday we picked the first asparagus of the season. That is my feeling of turning the corner. Please spend some time browsing our web site. The calender section is filling up fast. The gallery is being updated with photos from winter and spring classes.

Our introductory bread baking class was a great success and we all learned so much. Look for Bill Smith to return, one weekend a month. Sign up early, class size is limited.

Look for extended cafe hours. Dim Sum every Wednesday – Sunday, 11:30 to 4:00 (That’s W/THurs/Fri/Sat/Sun DIM SUM!) . Menus will be posted on our website. Many cafe items available in our to-go refrigerator. Stop by any time and see whats going on!

Thank you to all our supporters. I look forward to hearing the screen door bang as everyone comes in!

 

I’m very happy to announce the opening this past Sunday the 23rd of January of our weekly Sunday Dim Sum Cafe. We are open to the public from 11 am to 3 pm every Sunday. We offer a weekly variety of “small dishes”; pan seared pork dumplings, scallion pancakes, steamed buns with either a spicy pork filling or black bean and vegetables and summer rolls with spicy peanut sauce. We offer several sides of veggies such has bok choy, eggplant and house made pickles. Fried rice bowl with Chinese sausage and lots of vegetables, topped with poached eggs was our best seller last week. You can always find a  bowl of warm, nourishing soup or noodles each week as well. We have a simple wine list and we take cash or checks. Check out the photos from opening day on our photo library.

With the Chinese New Year being celebrated on Thursday February 3rd, we will enjoying that happy celebration every Sunday thru the winter. Please come in and join the party!!!