Curly Kale Eatery

Just wanted to post an update on Mike....

Thought we would update with a little Christmas Spirit.
Mike has bounced back from his craneoplasty done a week and a half ago.
He has been up walking, with a walker from his bed, off the unit, to the elevators and back. He is also doing some coordination work with the support of the parallel bars. Speech therapy is helping, he is relearning to pronounce his words, and to coordinate getting his air supply behind his speech.
Mike's been beginning to enjoy more homemade foods (primarily soups and pasta) and continues to regain the control of his utensils, which is awesome.
His trach site continues to heal very well, and he should have his 24 staples removed either tommorrow or Thursday in the back of his head.
We are so greatful for your continued prayers and love and support. 🙏 ❤️🙏

Overall Mike has been getting stronger, altho he has suffered a few setbacks since the last update, he keeps fighting back even stronger.
Physio has had him up at the parallel bars today, 10 steps by his own strength, only having his feet directed in the right direction and then repeated 3 more times. 💪💪💪💪
His trach had been uncorked/opened for a while since the last update as he was struggling again with his secretions and breathing, but he has been corked again for a couple of days now, so far so good!
Neuro surgeon has been consulted again. He has some swelling in his neck. A few more tests this week to come, so the surgeon can make some more decisions on Mike's care plan.
We are both very greatful for the continued Prayers, Good Vibes, and frequent check ins.
The donations on the GoFundMe page have been overwhelming....Thank you from the bottom of our hearts
Love you All 💙💙💙

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To the faithful & loving customers of this fantastic establishment, … Mike & Stacy’s lives have recently been turned upside down. Please consider helping, even by sharing!

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Help Chef Mike Beat the Odds, organized by Courtney McGillion My brother-in-law, Mike, needs our help. Just over one month ago, he suffered a massi… Courtney McGillion needs your support for Help Chef Mike Beat the Odds

With us closing our doors, we understand that there are some outstanding gift certificates out there. We will refund any from the months of Oct to Dec 2021.
Please send an email to [email protected] and we can give you further instructions on how to recieve your refund.
Thank you.
Chef Mike

Time to update you all, as some of you have heard rumors, or are just plain wondering what the heck is going on?!
We, Mike and I, have been forced to make a difficult decision. As you are aware, we had a pipe burst in the Dining Room at the beginning of January this year. We have just signed off in the past week on the final completion of the repairs.
We have always been over insured. Above a basic policy, we carried a policy for loss of income and another for loss of wages. Bottom line, insurance is not paying out even enough to cover the debt which has occurred since we have been closed (hydro, utilities and such)
In the past few weeks, as the building has come to completion, we have been presented with someone who wanted to take over our building and our lease. Despite all the emotions that we feel about our decision, we have made the difficult decision to let Curly Kale Eatery close.
We appreciate all of the support over the 6 years, through Covid Pandemic, through our wacky at times "Seasonal Menu" (early days).
We have appreciated YOU, our guests, who have become friends. Our Staff, who have become family. Our partnership with Nick of Magpie's Bakery, this man can seriously do anything! We look forward to supporting his future endeavors, as should you all!
The words "Thank you for your support" now and over the years, doesn't seem just. Please know that from the bottom of our Hearts, we would have never made Curly Kale Eatery the success it was prior to the Pandemic, or the Strength we were throughout the Pandemic without each and everyone of you. Whether you were a daily, weekly, monthly or summertime 'regular', we always loved catching up! We have loved being witness to countless 1st Dates; Celebratory breakfasts and lunches; being warned of absences due to vacations so we wouldn't worry, to hearing of all the adventures had; to hearing of engagements and being fortunate to cater a few of those nuptials; to watching baby bumps grow, then gush over the cute babes when you brought them in, to have watched all your Babes growing up, now toddlers, school-age Littles.
We have been so Honored to have you in our Dining room-our 2nd Home 💚
Chef Mike & Stacy

So an update on our renovation progress. We are waiting patiently on trades to start coming in and getting the restaurant back in order. The latest info we received was today and it was flooring to be installed late April.. which means we have a while yet. Sorry folks.. this is very frustrating to say the least.

Just a quick update, we are still at the investigation stage after just over a month, no set timeline yet. Still more demo to go. Thanks for all your continued support, we promise to give a timeline for reopening when we have one.

So update. We had a burst pipe in the ceiling of the dining room, the restoration company is worried there is asbestos so we need to get that tested before work can be done. Saying that all the trades are very behind and according to our insurance adjuster it will probably take 1 to 2 months to get this fixed.
Thank you all for your patience!
Mike, Stacy and Curly Kale family!

As we went in to set up for Re-opening this week, there has been some damage to the building over the break. At this time, We must remain closed.
We promise to update as soon as we have some answers.
Sorry for any inconvenience and WE truly appreciate your understanding and patience. Mike and Stacy

We will be open this coming week Wednesday, Thursday and Friday regular hours and then our staff will be taking a holiday break and be back on Jan 5th regular hours. We hope you all have a blessed Christmas and a happy New Year. Thank you all for your support over the past year, we hope to see you in the new year as well! Thank you, Thank you, Thank you.

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Smoked chicken.. chicken from the farm store in yarrow, I brine it for 24 hours in water, brown sugar, salt, poultry seasoning and my own cayenne hot sauce. Then it's a slow smoke for 3 to 4 hours at 200 degrees.

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This... all the same things that we have been struggling with as well, our saving grace at the moment is my wife going back to work as a lab assistant to pay our bills at home.
Small businesses are suffering everywhere.

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Please be kind to us.. we are short staff today as some of our staff live on the other side of the hwy closure...:( normally Stacy would cover but she has been busy helping at the lab as they are short staff as well. Thanks for your understanding.
shortages

We have donuts again (while supplies last) or brunch, a great mix of breakfast or lunch!

Good Morning! We have farm fresh eggs, lots. $6 per dozen. We also have daily fresh bread.

"The Reuben sandwich is a North American grilled sandwich composed of corned beef, Swiss cheese, sauerkraut, and Russian dressing, grilled between slices of rye bread. It is associated with kosher-style delicatessens, but it is not kosher, because it combines meat and cheese."  Wikipedia

We may be biased, but we think we have the best in town!

So, to whomever keeps trying to get us fined or closed down.... stop wasting everyone's time and read the rules and regulations for the vaxx pass mandate... we do NOT have to ask for it as stated under section M... if we did have to ask for it, we would close our doors as we feel it isn't our job to police this mandate.
Until further notice we are still up and running, obeying the mandates that we need to obey. Thank you for your continued support.
(The ones that have an issue with this, please do not dine with us)

Chef/Owner Mike Slanzi.

It's a soup kinda day. How about a creamy tomato spinach!
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Curly Kale Eatery updated their business hours.

Effective September 7, 2021
Our NEW Business Hours are Wednesday to Sunday, 9am to 2pm.

We've had to make this difficult decision to close Tuesdays as we still have not been able to secure more kitchen staff.

We sincerely THANK YOU ALL for your continued support 💚

sourdough, eggs, piles of vegetables, flowers and grain, every week! It’s really quite a deal.
We will be a pick up location for this amazing CSA box!
only a few more spots left! Sign up now - contact sweetearthfarms.ca

How about brunch? We are open until 2pm today! We have donuts! Including some gluten free options from

So this happened!! Thank you for the support!! We feel very honored!
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Kale from in greendale! Check them out, they also do CSA boxes. Local produce tastes wayyyyyyy better then stuff that's been in a shipping container for days at a time!

Super excited to make this list!!
So many other great stops in our Chilliwack!!

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Using local farmers for product in chilliwack... With covid, we struggled to make ends meet, saying that we also couldn't purchase enough from our local farmers and then this is what happens.. they move to somewhere else where it is more cost effective to farm.
In the last 6 years of us being in business we have seen many farmers come and go, this saddens us immensely as we grow bonds with these folk.
Support local!! We cannot stress this enough! Thank you

There will be NO donuts tomorrow, (I'm gonna have a little sleep in). We will have brunch from 9 till 2 still! The duck burger is back on the menu, I also changed the breakfast burrito (no more ham... my regular supplier has retired) chorizo from savory sausage instead!

Donuts for today!
We have AC if you need to get out of the heat and have a delicious, locally sourced meal!

Donuts today
Boston Cream V
Vanilla Sprinkles V
Strawberry Fritters V
Key lime pie
Cookies and Cream
White Chocolate Salted Caramel

We are open for dine in 9am til 2pm Tuesday through Sunday,
This Sunday is Father's day and we will have a NY steak special, so bring in the dad's!

Mmm garlic scapes, so many different ways to use these delectable beauties. Right now they are in season, grab some and put them in your stir-fry! Or maybe a soup? How about Sautee them with some bacon and have them as a side dish? I made a curry (keto style) at home for dinner with some tonight.