Sweet Week November 16th-19th

Hello There SweetArt Extended Fam!



Please, please, please order your Thanksgiving Pies soon! We book up quickly so the sooner, the better. Here's the lineup:

• Pumpkin


• Pecan


• Sweet Potato


• Caramel Apple


• Apple-Crumb


• Sweet Potato-Pecan


• Pumpkin-Pecan


• Pear-Cranberry Crumb

Or get some Bread Pudding:

• Pumpkin-Cranberry


• Caramel-Apple

And some of you have mentioned wanting some Vegan Mackin' Cheese for a crowd. Great idea! Place your order for that, too, and we'll make it happen.

And just so you know, all of our pies are available Vegan too!

Please order by this Friday November 18, 2011.

Please stay tuned for the Christmas cookie line-up. Perfect for gifts or to satisfy you while SweetArt is on holiday.

We will be open the day before Thanksgiving, closed Thursday and Friday, and open on Saturday following Tofurky Day. We hope to see you post Thanksgiving:)

Our Specials this week:

• Vegan Gyro (house made) w/crisp green leaf lettuce, thinly sliced red onions, cherry tomatoes, and a vegan cucumber sauce.



• Hummus Heaven Wrap (in our eyes, atleast) our FAMOUS(almost) Chipotle-Sundried Tomato hummus wrap w/organic spinach, red bell peppers, avocado and a drizzle of love. Delish!



• Our seasonal salad (Organic Baby Spinach, house-made granola, crisp apples & goat cheese w/our house balsamic vinagrette)



• Chickpea & Rosemary Soup (vegan and divine).

We'll have an insane Friday Pieday so come have pie because pie is awesome!!

We thank you. We love y'all! Hope to see you soon.

grace & peace,

Reine, Cbabi & the ENTIRE SweetArt Crew

SweetWeek October 26th-29th

Hello Extended SweetArt Family!

Thank you all for the love and support. Here are the MUST KNOWs of the week:

HOURS, they are a changin' Again? Yes, but for the better! We are now open earlier on Fridays and are extending our lunch menu on Fridays and Saturdays until close! We are also closing later on Fridays and Saturdays. So the new hours look like this:

Wednesday & Thursday 10am-6pm

Friday & Saturday 9am-7pm

Friday will resume it's Friday PieDay with savory and sweet pies (vegan available)...keep reading below to see what this Friday's pies are. And Saturday will be our Vegan SoulFood Saturday (4pm-7pm--evening only). We still get a good number of customers hoping for food after 3p.m.--so here's your opportunity. Come eat with us every Friday and Saturday evening. Now look, we're gonna need to see "somebodies" or the hours will be a changin'...again. You feel me?

This Friday's Pie are: (the sweet ones) Banana Cream, Sweet Potato, and Vegan Chocolate Cream Heaven! (the savory ones) Spinach-Feta, Curry Potato-Avocado and Vegan Chicago-Style Deep Dish Sausage Pizza. Open til 7p.m. on Fridays serving our entire E.A.T.S. menu til close.

This week's Vegan SoulFood Saturday's menu: BBQ Toffu, mackin' Cheese, Collard Greens/Cabbage, and Plantains cooked in coconut milk. Remember, only available from 4pm-7pm Saturday evening. Hope to see you!

This week's Specials are: Pimento-Cheese Grilled Cheese Sandwich. I'm from the South, so I hope I'm not the only one excited about this one. If you haven't had pimento cheese, this is a good way to try it. Our house-made pimento cheese is insane. Add FaconBacon or tomatoes to your sandwich. We will also have a BBQ Seitan & Mushroom wrap w/crunchy-herby slaw enclosed in the warm wrap.

Our soup this week is: Roasted Garlic-Tomato (perfect with the pimento cheese sandwich...we did this on purpose, y'all!)

Keep your eyes peeled for our Thanksgiving Pie Order Blog...soming soon. Let SweetArt be the sweet ending to your family's Thanksgiving celebration...we'd be honored.

Keep in mind these words of wisdom: Keep dreamin'...it keeps you young!

grace & peace,

Reine, Cbabi, & the Entire SweetArt Crew!

SweetWeek October 19th-22nd

Hello Extended SweetArt Family,

As always, thank you all for your support and love. Thank you for telling us what you love, thank you for telling us what you'd like, thank you for giving us your business.

This week is so exciting. For our baseball fans, we'll be doing these cute baseball cupcakes--Go Cards!! We'rre still open 10am Wednesday-Friday and 9am on Saturdays. Please come in to try all of the goodness this week. I'm super excited about our Bread Pudding Muffins (yup, bread pudding muffins)! Perfect for this change in weather with a great espresso drink or tea!

This week our lunch special is actually our breakfast burrito (the Edna--named after Cbabi's Grandmother). This burrito is such a hit on Saturdays that we thought maybe people would love it enough to order it through the week. We load it up with scrambled tofu, creole potatoes, cheese of choice, salsa, and vegan sausage. It is truly remarkable (in a good way)!

Some of you know that we've been doing Vegan Soul Food Friday--we still do, but the traditional plate of soul food has changed. Though we love the BBQ Tofu, Vegan Mackin' Cheese, Plantains, & collards, we love other food as well--comfort food. So this Friday's vegan soul food "meal" is a Vegan Lasagna with delicious house-made garlic bread, and side salad. We are excited about this. The weather is perfect for lasagna! We hope we see you Friday--and all the other days we are open.

Keep you eyes peeled for our seasonal cupcakes: White Chocolate Peppermint, Pumkin Patch, and Gingerbread. Tis the season for these little gems.

Our new cupcake price is $2.25 each and $25 per dozen. Butter has gone down in price (yay!!) so our price can now go down as well. Thank you for your loyalty to us when our prices had to increase. We really appreciate you!

Treat yourself this week...be good to yourself...and know you are meant to shine!

grace & peace,

Reine, Cbabi & the ENTIRE SweetArt Crew!

So, this week at SweetArt...

Hello All,

Last week stunk! So many odd, horrible things happened, that I think this week I'll win the lottery (finally!)...if I remember to play!

This week we have so many great things happening. Again the menu changes. Relax, the SweetBurger and 39th (vegan blt) are still on the menu, along with the Magnolia & Shaw with some special add-ins (broccoli, roasted garlic, anyone?). We also have a special, Curry Chik'n Salad Sandwich (so excited for this one!)

Apple-cinnamon bread pudding muffins (perfect at any time), red velvet cheesecake bars (kind of addictive), and pumpkin cupcakes with caramel buttercream or chai-spiced buttercream or maple cream cheese frosting (they're good with all of those!)

Oh, the most important thing: Every Thursday lunch is only $6. Any lunch on the menu. Every Thursday. Oh, and the other important thing: our cupcakes are lower in price. We raised it when butter raised and now we can lower it. The price is back to $2.25/each or $25 dozen. Some truffles cost more than this super-satisfying SweetArt treat...I'm just sayin'. And Cupcake Happy Hour is now $1.55 for any cupcake (that way people who are only getting one cupcake can experience the love too)

So many people have wished us well, and verbally told us how much the shop means to them. We really needed to hear that this week. We love what we do and are so happy to be spreading the "sweet love" in the STL.

grace & peace,

Reine, Cbabi & the SweetArt crew!

Flad is BACK!

i didn't realize how many people like this menu item...because at the time, it was selling "so-so". Well, only 500 people asked me last week about the return of the Flad: our vegan chili with sweet potato chunk. So it's back. Please show it some love; it really missed you all too!

Hello, Blog? It's me, Reine!

A funny thing happened on the way to this blog today. I happened to read an email sent to Cbabi requesting his presence for an event which he would be PERFECT for because he has a successful business. A successful business? I guess. I mean we are open, and all. And doesn't every successful business almost get their gas cut off during lunch rush by Laclede Gas? Doesn't that happen to them all? But that was year one, so does that even count?

Friends, if there's anything Cbabi and I feel the most, success isn't it. Fearful? Check. Nausea? Check. Unprepared and Unknowledgable? Check Check! Exhausted? Triple Check! It seems like an oxymoron to place SweetArt and Successful as an international couple. But I guess it's not.

We're still open. Oven's still heatin' (thanks nameless Laclede Gas guy who said, "If I give you three hours to pay the bill can you do that?" You SO rock!). Baked goods still come out every day we're open. It's Magic. Definitely Miracles. A lot of Faith. Some Tears. And God.

Some weeks are harder than others. This was a hard week (and it's not over)! There were tears today(all mine). Wavering faith. Beliefs that wholesale only would be the best bet. But then, I came out of the funk (thanks, Babe (that's Cbabi to y'all). It's like the little engine that could, "I think I can. I think I can. I think I can." I really do think I can. And when I think I can't, I don't make my home there.

So maybe I should think along the lines of that person who sent the request to Cbabi--SweetArt is a successful business.

That really does sound better than, "Oh, God what are we gon' do?!?!?!"SweetArt.

True.

I love y'all and I thank you for the support...of our sucessful business;-)

grace & peace,

Reine

Better hours, Better life!

It's been a while, but hopefully with our new schedule you will see an updated blog, emails with actual photos of food (imagine that?!), and the return of great weekly specials. What was that? New hours? Well, sort of. Usually in the winter after Christmas break, we change our schedule from Tuesday-Saturday to Wednesday-Saturday. Well, it's not Christmas, but after many conversations we've decided that the Wednesday-Saturday schedule better fits the life we want to have. See Tuesday-Saturday really means MONday-Saturday for Cbabi and me. We have to prep for the week and shop, no complaints--it's part of small business ownership. So Sunday is our off day (if we don't have a wedding or special catering event). But time with our family (where everybody is together at the same time AND awake!), has been sacrificed. Not the goal of running this business. It's just too much for who we must be as parents and people, husband and wife. I know most of you will understand, and thank you for supporting a business that aims to create great things to eat and see, great opportunities for people who are often ignored, and a great model of priorities. Our children thank you too! Now on to the FOOD! Every Saturday is now Vegan Pizza Day. Come on, all you wonderful vegans; don't leave me hanging. My crew (none are vegan) are bemoaning this decision, but I said, "We must have pizza for my vegans...and Saturday is now that day!" So prove them all wrong:) and come get some vegan pizza. Starting in September, every Friday will be Vegan Soul Food Friday. But how, you ask? Easy. Great produce, a little magic vegan cheese sauce and voila...you get Southern Greens, Chai-Spiced Maple Sweet Potatoes, Vegan Corn Bread, Vegan Mackin' Cheeze, BBQ Tofu. A plate of goodness, for sure. Don't sleep on this one. Look for weekly specials to return, our School-House Pizza every day (vegan on Saturdays:), and loads of love and appreciation to you all for supporting this dream. grace & peace, Reine, Cbabi, & the Entire SweetArt Crew!