Night Kitchen Bakery expansion! Opening the first week of October!

We are expanding our retail space to make it more comfortable and spacious. Our Pastry Chefs will be decorating cakes in the window for your entertainment, bringing the open kitchen concept to cake decorating!

Pictured here in the new space are Stock Group's Chris Stock, Night Kitchen's Johnny Cakes Millard and Mike the carpenter.
The "green" renovation is well underway! The Stock Group is sourcing reclaimed pine flooring and marble and crafting butcher block counter tops.
The contractor, The Stock Group, is replacing the window next door to match our current window.

GRINCH hosts an Evening of Energy Caps

Garden Project

Hello Fans of The Night Kitchen.

It has been a long time since my last post.
Sorry about that but you know how it goes, one gets busy and preoccupied.
This Summer was fruitful and productive for us here at NK.
Our presence on the TLC production of Fabulous Cakes kept us busy with many new friends who now know our product.
One thing Amy and the staff do here at NK is to make lunch items such as sandwiches, pasta salads and pizza (John and Katie). In order to improve these products (improving always being on our minds) we decided to work on fixing up the back yard so that we can grow some of our own vegetables and herbs.
In the summer of 2008 I decided to start by planting a few things in pots. Here is a photo from that time.

From Notes From The Night Kitchen

About a year later we hired a friend of ours, Mark Korsak, to make some raised beds for us. Mark is a talented artist and his attention to detail really shows.

From Notes From The Night Kitchen

This summer Katie McCafferty and I worked on planting, weeding and maintaining the vegetable beds. I had worked for a long time to get rid of the Notweed and other brush and the yard started to shape up.

From Notes From The Night Kitchen

An opportunity for free Wissahickon Shist stone had me making more beds for other types of plants and bushes. I am thinking of a Holly bush and possibly Blueberry bushes but that could change. Amy and I hope to have vegetables for our savory products which will be featured more after we finish our expansion to the space next door. We also hope to have a beautiful back yard that is lush and inviting for all to see. Here is a shot of our wall as well as a round bunch of stones which might become a fire pit.

From Notes From The Night Kitchen

From Notes From The Night Kitchen

So, wish us well and we will let you know when it is completed. To finish the job we hope to put a stone patio with a table, chairs and umbrella so we all can enjoy the beauty of organic vegetables growing behind our bakery. Thank you to Philly Compost for providing fresh, rich compost which we are sure will maximize the flavor of whatever we grow.