Mäni’s Blog Café

Our New Web Site!

As of today, Monday February 6, 2006 at noon our new website is up!  We're pleased to present our site at: Mäni’s Bakery Cafe Website.

All our posts from this blog and all Newsletters, menus, stories, information, etc. is all now in one place.

Thank you for your support!  Please visit us at our new home on the web manisbakery.com.

Website Launch Update

If you want to be the first to know about the launch of Mäni’s new website, please subscribe to our mailing list.  You'll be first on your block to see the new site!  We're counting down to noon on Monday!...

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News of the website front

We’re getting close to going live. Roughly one week ago, we’d asked for your participation in helping to test the new site prior to launch. We were incredibly delighted to find over 60 people reply to our request (I’m still excited)! The test was performed this week & your feedback was well received. The new website will be live before Valentine’s Day & we hope to hear about all of our fabulous customers (that’s you) making good use of the information being offered. Share your experiences on our blog, check out our menu, share us with your friends, ask us questions, and much more!

Hollywood & My Job at Mäni’s

This story is one reason why blogging for us at Mäni’s on Fairfax is cool.  Yesterday we got a call from MTV to see if they could shoot a segment of their new series (launching in April) called The Hills.  It's a show starring the leads from Laguna Beach, LC & Jason. Of course they want to shoot right at lunch time.  But it's Hollywood calling, so I work out the details for them to film without impacting our lunch guests....hummmm, that part's not so easy, but we make it happen.

But what I didn't realize would happen, was that so many customers were intrigued by the filming, and some knew the old show, the stars and we're telling me 'what's going on' with this whole Laguna Beach morphed into The Hills story line, about the characters, etc. Others just got to see something different today at Mäni’s.  So a regular Thursday lunch scene was really a scene and added entertainment at Mäni’s today.  The show's debut is April and many of our willing guests can call their friends and family around the country to tell them they'll be on an episode of 'The Hills', providing they signed a release!

Since I was born and raised in L.A., I'm not ususally big into the whole Hollywood scene, but hey afterall I work with aspiring actors and even an opera singer! (Let's see if you can figure out who that is??)

So which ones of you reading this were here having lunch on Thursday February 2, 2006 and can fill us in on more of this show, LC & Jason and what you thought of the filming?  We'd love to hear from you!!

Potato Month

February is Potato Month!  Bet you didn't know the humble potato had a month all of its own.  Check out The Healthy Potato for nutrition info and potato recipes. 

Better yet, stop by Mäni’s on Fairfax and order a side of our fabulous organic roasted Yukon Gold potatoes with your breakfast, lunch or dinner.

A Favorite Holiday of Mine

As we prepare to have a really fun Valentine's Day, I thought I'd share my thoughts. Perhaps you may identify with my thoughts on the Red Heart holiday just a couple weeks away. Some of the reasons why I enjoy it so much is because it's fun, romantic, red, chocolatety & breaks up the winter days with something special to celebrate.

With warm thoughts of this day on the mind, we've dressed up the restaurant with splashes of red. If you stop by you'll notice just how excited we are about celebrating RED with you! Healthy food, good people & most of all, scrumptious desserts to share with your love, or keep to yourself. However you choose to participate - breakfast, lunch, dinner, a heart-shaped dessert - come to Mäni's and check us out.