Franklin Street Works Café Features Farm to Table Lunch and a Weekend Brunch Menu

Franklin Street Works, a contemporary art space and café, and Stamford’s best kept secret up until now, is excited to launch a new lunch and weekend brunch menu prepared by Chef Erin Emmett. The vibrant and seasonal menu highlights locally sourced ingredients and even fresh vegetables and herbs from FSW’s Backyard Garden. The café, which is an integral social component of Franklin Street Works’ mission as a forward thinking art space, ensures that the eating experience is as unique as the viewing experience.

Chef Emmett’s from-scratch menu includes signature sandwiches like the grilled sweet manchego pannini with fig jam and sopressata. For a snack or light lunch, toasts will be offered, including smashed avocado toast with lime and chili flakes. Salads include arugula, beet, and farro as well as a Southwestern cobb with black beans, jack cheese, avocado, bacon, roasted corn and chipolte lime vinaigrette.

Chef Emmett also brings her sweet side and background as a pastry chef to Franklin Street Works in the form of and her Sweet Pistachio baking company. Daily baked scones, muffins, hand pies, cookies, and her soon-to-be-famous house made granola will be offered. Sweet Pistachio will also feature its signature macaroons in such varieties as salted caramel, earl grey, and of course, pistachio.

Fair trade coffee by Brooklyn Roasting Company is a key highlight of the café’s new offerings. Franklin Street Works baristas provide visitors with handcrafted espresso drinks in addition to a rotating daily drip coffee and a cold brew iced version. The café will continue to offer wine and regionally brewed craft beer.

Franklin Street Works will be opening for brunch from 8:00 am to 5:00 pm on Saturdays and Sundays beginning June 6, 2015. Brunch includes a quiche of the day, croissant bread pudding, roasted vegetable frittata, yogurt bowl with house made granola and Mimosas .

About Chef Erin Emmett:

Erin graduated from Fordham University with degrees in French Literature and Sociology, and then while attending Universities in Paris, she fell in love with French pastries. Erin went on to develop a diverse knowledge of all things sweet, from advanced chocolate work to elaborate cakes to French macarons. She trained at Le Notre in Paris. Her experience includes: working at Michelin starred Alizé in Las Vegas; mastering chocolate with Knipschildt Chocolatier in CT; and being the opening Pastry Chef atVandaag in Manhattan. Shortly after she moved to California, where she was the Pastry Chef of the Chantal Guillon macaron boutiques and most recently, the Executive Pastry Chef of Componere Fine Catering. Erin moved back to the East Coast earlier this year and is pursuing her own dessert company in the New York metropolitan area.

About Franklin Street Works:

Franklin Street Works, a not-for-profit contemporary art space and cafe located in downtown Stamford, has worked with more than 150 internationally exhibiting artists, curated 15 original exhibitions, and has organized 100 free, public programs. This work was acknowledged with an Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts grant in 2013. Franklin Street Works' exhibitions have also received positive reviews and features in major art publications such as Artforum online, Art Papers, and Hyperallergic.

Getting There:

Franklin Street Works is located at 41 Franklin
Street in downtown Stamford, Connecticut, near
the UConn campus and less than one hour from New York City via Metro North. Franklin Street Works is approximately one mile (a 15 minute walk) from the Stamford train station. On street parking is available on Franklin Street (metered until 6 pm except on Sunday), and paid parking is available nearby in a lot on Franklin Street and in the Summer Street Garage (100 Summer Street), behind Target.

The art space and café are open to the public on Wednesday- ­Friday: 12:00 pm – 5:00 pm, Saturday, and Sunday: 8:00am ­5:00pm. Franklin Street Works does not charge for admission during regular gallery hours.

http://www.franklinstreetworks.org/

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Submitted by Redding, CT

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