Ashland Daily Tidings
Making a grand entrance
Monday | 04 January 2010 |
By Vickie Aldous
New stained glass door at Tease is among downtown's graceful gateways
A newly installed door at Tease restaurant and bar in downtown Ashland has two different personalities, depending on whether the sun is shining upon it in the day or light from inside is illuminating the door's stained glass at night.
"When the light's behind it, it's full of color. When it's day, it becomes a graphic image," said Tease Owner Julie O'Dwyer.
O'Dwyer and local sculptor Kevin Christman found an old wooden door at a salvage yard in Berkeley, Calif. Christman created a custom stained glass piece of an abstracted orchid that he set into the door.Read the rest...
New stained glass door at Tease is among downtown's graceful gateways
A newly installed door at Tease restaurant and bar in downtown Ashland has two different personalities, depending on whether the sun is shining upon it in the day or light from inside is illuminating the door's stained glass at night."When the light's behind it, it's full of color. When it's day, it becomes a graphic image," said Tease Owner Julie O'Dwyer.
O'Dwyer and local sculptor Kevin Christman found an old wooden door at a salvage yard in Berkeley, Calif. Christman created a custom stained glass piece of an abstracted orchid that he set into the door.Read the rest...
Miles and Clayton take Tease to finals in Food & Wine Classic
Monday | 09 November 2009 |
By John Darling
In a well-attended, hotly-contested third annual Chef Showdown, Franco Console of Omar's Restaurant walked away with the top honor Sunday at the Ashland Food & Wine Classic.
Given the same set of ingredients from local growers, with no advance notice of what they had to cook, finalists Console and Miles McCollum of Tease Restaurant worked their magic with whole, live lobster, rib eye steak and an array of produce from local growers.
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In a well-attended, hotly-contested third annual Chef Showdown, Franco Console of Omar's Restaurant walked away with the top honor Sunday at the Ashland Food & Wine Classic.Given the same set of ingredients from local growers, with no advance notice of what they had to cook, finalists Console and Miles McCollum of Tease Restaurant worked their magic with whole, live lobster, rib eye steak and an array of produce from local growers.
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Eat your coffee
Friday | 26 June 2009 |
By Angela Howe-Dicker
I've been so deliriously happy drinking coffee all these years, it never occurred to me to eat it.
Thanks to the combined efforts of Tease Restaurant & Bar and Noble Coffee, coffee lovers are not limited to an after-dinner cup-a-joe. Chef Trey Hansen of Tease and Noble's Jared Rennie have paired up to give taste buds a buzz as Tease hosts a special dinner on Sunday featuring coffee as the secret ingredient in every course. Fans of the TV show "Iron Chef" won't want to miss it, and neither will anyone else who enjoys fine food and java.
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I've been so deliriously happy drinking coffee all these years, it never occurred to me to eat it.
Thanks to the combined efforts of Tease Restaurant & Bar and Noble Coffee, coffee lovers are not limited to an after-dinner cup-a-joe. Chef Trey Hansen of Tease and Noble's Jared Rennie have paired up to give taste buds a buzz as Tease hosts a special dinner on Sunday featuring coffee as the secret ingredient in every course. Fans of the TV show "Iron Chef" won't want to miss it, and neither will anyone else who enjoys fine food and java.
Read the rest...
Experiments in wine blending
Tuesday | 23 June 2009 |
By Vickie Aldous
Ashland restaurant and bar, vineyard in Jacksonville to host unique event
Diners will be able to mix wines together to make their own blends during an unusual event at Tease Restaurant & Bar in Ashland.
Tease has teamed up with Cowhorn Vineyard & Garden of Jacksonville for a dinner and wine-blending experiment that begins at 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday at the restaurant, which is located downtown on the corner of Second and East Main streets.
The dinner will begin with three courses paired with Cowhorn's Rhone varietals — Voignier, Roussane and Marsanne/Rousanne, said Tease Co-owner Julie O'Dwyer.
Bill and Barbara Steel, co-owners of Cowhorn, will talk about blends and then give diners a chance to create their own.Read the rest...
Diners will be able to mix wines together to make their own blends during an unusual event at Tease Restaurant & Bar in Ashland.
Tease has teamed up with Cowhorn Vineyard & Garden of Jacksonville for a dinner and wine-blending experiment that begins at 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday at the restaurant, which is located downtown on the corner of Second and East Main streets.
The dinner will begin with three courses paired with Cowhorn's Rhone varietals — Voignier, Roussane and Marsanne/Rousanne, said Tease Co-owner Julie O'Dwyer.
Bill and Barbara Steel, co-owners of Cowhorn, will talk about blends and then give diners a chance to create their own.Read the rest...
Tuesdays at Tease are a model event
Thursday | 21 May 2009 |
By Vickie Aldous
Restaurant and bar kicks off sketch sessions
Gabriel Mark paused to take a sip of draft beer and then continued to sketch a live model posing at Tease Restaurant & Bar in downtown Ashland.
He said the drawing session at the restaurant was different than the usual experience of sketching a model in an art studio.Read the rest...
Restaurant and bar kicks off sketch sessions
He said the drawing session at the restaurant was different than the usual experience of sketching a model in an art studio.Read the rest...