Invitees Gianna Ciaccio, Rachel Hundley and Laurie Vermont

Last night, the Renaissance Entrepreneurship Center held an annual dinner honoring women entrepreneurs in Marin County. Our co-owner, Rachel Hundley, was one of forty women nominated to attend! The dinner was hosted by Sharon Miller, CEO of the Renaissance Entrepreneurship Center.

Businesses represented included finance institutions, retail stores, community organizations and, of course, Drums & Crumbs. Congratulations to Rachel on the recognition for her contributions as an entrepreneur!

She Made It In Marin – Cebrating Women Entrepreneurs Who Made It In Marin County

Starting in May, due to our new commitment at the Valley of the Mood Farmers’ Market every Tuesday night in Sonoma, we will only be at the Renaissance Marin on Wednesdays from 9am to 2:30pm.

Then starting in June, if all things go according to plan (and we’ve already learned they sometimes don’t), we’ll be moving into the food truck full time and will have to say goodbye the pop-up cafe. But don’t worry, San Rafael friends, we are planning to have the truck in downtown San Rafael for lunch at least a couple of times a week!

A full schedule of our regular food truck locations will be posted closer to its launch date.

Thank you to everyone who has come and visited us at the cafe! We’ll still be there until the end of May, so come see us!

Edit: Due to a delay with the truck, we will be at the cafe every THURSDAY from 9:30am to 2:30pm through the end of June!

Our first bowl of Winter Root Vegetable Soup!

We are very excited about this month’s additions to the menu!

For breakfast, we are serving our Pecan Coffee Cake. We’ve posted the recipe, so try it for yourself and let us know how it turns out! We are also debuting one of our favorite classic southern breakfast items: cheese grits! Made with organic ground corn and sharp cheddar cheese, this menu addition makes the perfect gluten-free morning snack or lunch accompaniment.

For lunch, we have two new entrees. The first is a hearty vegan Winter Root Vegetable Soup made with butternut squash, sweet potato, parsnip, turnip and celery root. The second is a gluten-free Turkey Meatloaf made with quinoa and a special blend of spices.

For dessert, try our beautiful new red velvet sandwich cookies! They make a great gift for your valentine!

Come visit us at the pop-up cafe at 1115 3rd St. in downtown San Rafael. We are there every Tuesday and Wednesday from 9am to 2:30pm. Hope to see you there!

We served our full menu of fried chicken, mashed potatoes, mac & cheese, collard greens, coleslaw, buttermilk biscuits, raspberry peach cobbler and peach iced tea. Music was provided by Sean Carscadden and a photography exhibit by Ryan Daffurn, both out of Sonoma.

A huge thanks to everyone who came. We had a blast! A huge thanks also to our helpers Tess, Chris, Nicole and Victor and to everyone at the RenCenter who helped pull it all together.

All set up for dinner service

Arthur’s Signature Fried Chicken

Rachel taking orders

Thank you everyone who came out!

For those of you not familiar with Northern California geography, Marin County is the county between Sonoma and San Francisco counties. It has always been our plan to cover both of those areas (eventually Arthur and Rachel will chair their own separate jurisdictions), so it makes sense to start in the middle. The small downside is that the center is a 45 minutes away from our house in Sonoma, but even that is hard to complain about considering how beautiful the scenery is.