Latest Newsletter from Charles

COOL ON A HOT NIGHT!-The Coventry Inn Is Open on Friday, July 23rd...

Live Jazz-Angelo Versace on Keyboard-Accomplished Jazz Performer Will 
Provide an Evening of Romantic Music by Candlelight!-Starts 9:00 P.M.

Food Available from 5:00 P.M. Till 9:00 P.M.-Including Tapas, Appetizers, 
Soup, Salad, Light Entrees, Desserts

Bass Ale, Stella Artois, Yeungling on Tap-New Kegs This Week-Sangria by 
the Glass-Yarnick's Sweet Corn

This May Be the Last Friday Evening Opening Until September When The 
Coventry Inn Will Open on Its Regular Schedule-Please Watch This 
Newsletter for the Exact Date


Dear T.C.I. Customer...

      Chef Nikkie's baby is due in September, and we are interviewing for 
a new chef this month.  I have added a few staff members as we have gone 
through the summer, and I will add more during the month of August.  We 
will take some time for training, and I hope to reopen again for dinner 
and drinks on Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays.  We will open again as 
soon as possible, but I want to take time to get everyone trained 
properly.  A great many of our old staff graduated from IUP last spring, 
and that was the reason for the limited openings during the summer.

      My goal for the summer openings was to have some fun.  It was very 
hard, some weeks, to get a staff together, and of course, there were loose 
ends.  Last time was the worst, as our bartender had not been properly 
trained, and the fryers stopped working in the kitchen.  That meant no 
French fries, no fish & chips, and no zucchini blossoms.  It was sad to 
have to throw away our fresh stock of blossoms at the end of the evening. 
We've worked to solve these problems for this week, but we also have some 
more new staff.

      This week's menu includes our usual range of tapas and appetizers. 
Nikkie is making a new cream of tomato soup with fresh tomatoes from 
Yarnick's Farm, and we have a lovely salad of tomatoes and fresh 
mozzarella.  We have four light entrees this time, including petit filet 
mignon, grilled salmon, seafood scampi, and a fried chicken breast with an 
herb cream sauce.  Desserts are mixed berry cobbler and our famous Cuban 
flan.  I've only mentioned a few items, but there are more.

      The Indiana area has produced quite a number of talented young jazz 
performers, and it is continuing to do so.  We had a great jazz night a 
month ago with Michael Stalteri and friends, including several who sat in 
just for a song or two.  One of these was Angelo Versach who played at 
Coventry on New Year's Eve in 2007 with two of his friends Philip Keuhn 
and Joe Saylor.  Years ago, I was arrested by the PLCB for allowing Joe 
and Philip to play jazz at The Coventry Inn with their fathers.  None of 
us knew at the time that you must be eighteen years of age to play in a 
bar even if you are playing with your father.  Anyway, these three young 
men have studied jazz at the finest music schools in America, and they 
have become quite accomplished.  I have been trying to get them back for 
New Years ever since, but they are never available all at the same time. 
However, Angelo is home for the summer, and he has agreed to entertain us 
on Friday evening.  He suggested turning the lights down low and playing 
romantic jazz music by candlelight.  It should be a good evening to enjoy 
the air conditioning, a glass of wine, and some cool jazz!

      We have some strong applicants, and I plan to reopen The Coventry 
Inn in the autumn with pub and bistro food and fine dining.  I appreciate 
the friendliness of everyone who came during the summer, and I look 
forward to a great autumn and winter season.

                               Your friend,
                               Charles A. Runyan
                               The Coventry Inn
                               July 21, 2010