Dear Telepan friends,

With the summer weather cooperating with our farmers, we are eagerly anticipating this season's crops. As the local produce becomes available, we'll be adding new summer dishes such as our smoked corn stew, panzanella salad with Tim's heirloom tomatoes and a Summer pork four-ways. Please look to the menus for updates.

The 4th of July falls on a Friday this year and we will feature a special celebratory cocktail. We will be open for lunch from 11:30am until 2:30pm and then for dinner from 5:00pm until 11:30pm.

We are again participating in New York Restaurant Week! This July we will offer our three course lunch for $24.07 on Wednesday 23rd thru Friday 25th and again on Wednesday 30th thru Friday, August 1st. Visit www.nycvisit.com for more information.

This summer, Jimmy Nicholas will be travelling and while he is away, we will open his wine cellar and sell off all his wine at discount. (shhh, we don't want him to know!) On Sunday and Monday evenings, during the months of July and August, we will offer a 50% discount on all wines listed at $200 or over on our list! If you are a wine lover or are simply interested in tasting wines that are often hard to get hold of, now is your chance!

Just for fun, we have a featured page on a day in the life of Telepan. Tom McWilliam recently snapped some photographs of the Telepan crew hard at work while he was attending a birthday party we hosted at the restaurant.

Enjoy the summer, I look forward to cooking for you soon.
Bill Telepan