New Menu Starts NOW!

Brunch

Cheetah Time!

We Are OPEN!

Soft Menu Opening Menu

Hi there. Because we are a new restaurant I trimmed down the menu and made this soft opening menu. We will go to the full menu in a few weeks, and on Friday, on top of the Lake Perch Dinner Special, we bring you a taste of the Cheetah to come. Click on the menu to view at full size. See you soon!

Opening Date!

The Electric Cheetah is opening with a limited menu on Friday, May 8, 2009 and of course we will be having Lake Perch as our dinner special. See you there.

I made this to hang from the ceiling at the Cheetah.

I NEED YOUR RED GLASS VOTIVES AND CUPS AND ANYTHING RED GLASS FOR CANDLES

We got one!

Health Department Success!

The Electric Cheetah is Hiring.

Tell your Uptown friends about this post!

Hi there.

After a long year of trying to get this building done, The Electric Cheetah is hiring servers, cooks, and dishwashers preferably who walk or ride a bike or moped or scooter to work and if you live in the neighborhood it is a plus as well.

For those of you who do not know what the Electric Cheetah is, we are a local independently owned Bistro that features local, organic, from scratch cuisine. We are a full service restaurant that will be unlike any restaurant that you will work in. I expect that applicants be human beings who can communicate like adults and not Robot restaurant employees. We have been in the business for many years and the typical garbage that goes on in restaurants will not fly with us. We just are looking for people that have a passion for food and the Wealthy/East Hills area and want to help us build a local staple in the community.

Come as yourself just ready to talk about food as we love it and love talking to people who share our passion.

Come in and fill out an application and take out "Employee Aptitude Test" (I am not expecting anyone to ACE it).

1015 Wealthy St SE
Grand Rapids MI 40506
Between 2-4pm please for and on the spot interview.

Thanks and for more information visit http://www.electriccheetah.com

Rapid Growth Wideo

The Bee.

The Dining Room

Yesterday...

We went to the food show, then doug made lasagna, then we ate it and relaxed, then doug drank alot and took pictures.

Enjoy.

WZZM Soup Challenge Coverage

http://www.wzzm13.com/news/story.aspx?storyid=107068&catid=48

Table for 2

Soup Challenge Menu

Click on Image to view the line up!

Movin' on in.

Are you coming to the BEE?

I saw the sign.

BANG! Here is what the building looks like with the sign on it. This is actually the sign even thought to me it looks photoshopped! I assure you it is real.

The Electric Cheetah Puzzle Bee!

Click on the Image to view the flyer!

Charity Soup Challenge

Click on the picture to read the full flyer!

Moo & Oink

Night Lights 2

Night Lights

To the guy at the cocktail party with the software...

Hey there if you or anyone who was at they cocktail party, knows who the guy that offered me some POS software is, I NEED TO TALK TO HIM ABOUT IT!

So if you know who that is tell him to call me.

616-617-6452

Cory

Coffee Zone

Dark and Stormy Cocktail Party

EVERYONE WAS DRUNK!

Ice is Nice

The ice machine that I got used, was able to be plugged in today and it works! Here is a picture of the first batch of ice made in the Cheetah.

Well begun is half done, otherwise intitled let's tidy up the Cheetah.

As you can see, construction crap is moving on out! I spent a few hours cleaning today and getting rid of boxes and garbage and generally trying to consolidate the clutter. See for yourself.

Christian Brothers Piano Move

Here it is! The Electric Cheetah's Piano. I am very excited to see and hear what becomes of this piano in the restaurant. I think that I made a good connection with these two gentlemen. The piano will add a warm inviting sound to The Cheetah.

A Wideo.

Just poting more pictures of the sake of Norman Eugene DeMint

January 29, 2009

Look at this video DAD!

Twinkle, twinkle, little imported Italian twinkle light.

Nancing around in your little garden.

sinky dinky

The start of the puzzle room and the patent room.

The Piano

I hope that I can encourage all who fancy themselves ragtime on the piano, to come and play for food!

FANtastic

50 Imported Italian Twinkle Lights

They will be 7.5 watt bulbs to cast a pleasant glow over the dining room. 375 Watts total. It will be pretty in there when we get the light bulbs in.

Pictures

Will you comb my fur?

The Cheetah is now Electric!

We have power now! And there is a new open sign in the window, but we are not open.

We had a speaker at the Cheetah today.

Picture yourself, latenight, Cheetah.

It is really starting to shape up in here. Many of the little details are getting taken care of and it has been a lot of work, but every task that Todd and I complete, makes the place look better. Yeasterday we finished the trim, and added lights underneath the counter top.

Cheetah's Greetings

On the right track!

$1850 dollars worth of track lighting that I got at an auction for $180. HA!

Counter is getting sealed.

Cheetah of wonder Cheetah of light, Cheetah with royal beauty bright.

This sign was taken from a "Dream Dinners" location that went out of business. We brought the circle frames to a place that printed us new cheetah heads for it and made this new cheetah head sign for the window that will always shine bright.

Do you see?

Here are a few more things to see. Todd and I trimmed out the door in the back hallway, the entrance to the kitchen, and hung these swinging doors. Also the Cheetah sign is hung in the window thanks to a bracket that we fabricated and painted. This weekend, the concrete bar top will get finished and I can not wait to see how it turns out.

Take a look.

Look at this, and look at that, and LOOK at THIS!

Here is more progress inside and finally outside. We are hoping to have power by the end of the week and more exciting things just keep happening everyday.

I mounted a box

In each of the three front window sections there will be one of these planter boxes that we made and they will house fresh rosemary for our homemade fries. Ooooooo!

Careful, or I'll sand your lips off!

First Customer in the Cheetah

Pretty Stain

The Choral Scholars Blessing @ the Electric Cheetah Open House

Curl up and Dye Job

Paint

Black Ceiling

Con White Primer

Optimus Prime, by Jackson VanDyke

Here we are taping things up and getting ready to prime the walls and the ceiling! Glorius!

Spruced up logo.

Concrete Countertop Documentary Part One

Here kitty kitty!

The round one is the sign that will hang in the front window and a cheetah head will be shown on both sides and the rectangular one will go on the dessert cooler and be lit up and displayed near the front waiting area.

Now, the tile with Sauergraut in it.

Minnesota, my old home.

One tile, two tile, three tile...

I got all of this on craigslist for 25 dollars and it looks so sweet!

November 14, 2008

Rub-a rub-a rub-a.

The forms come off.

You can also see that almost all of the drywall is put up. Thursday, the diamond grinder comes out and the bar starts to be polished.

Wet Bar, get it, WET BAR!

The glass that will be embedded in the bar top.

This is recycled brown glass that was poured into the concrete mix, 108lbs total. When the bar top is wet sanded with diamond polishing wheels, the glass will be smoothed out and all of the little bits will start showing up and shine like the top of my head.

Let's fill out this form.

Nov. 4, 2008 ELECTION DAY!

A hood in the hood.

Good Time Video

Kitchen Sketch

Beth sent me this sketch of what she is going to paint on the kitchen bulkhead! I LOVE IT!

Cheetah wideo tour part deux.

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Other things.

Look what Todd and I built and other things.

Insulation

Parking Curbs

Want to park?

The parking lot is taking shape. It is curvy.

Sushi Saki Hot!

Ode to a Duct

Pew!

Here is the Church Pew that I got for free from a friend who has the other one that matches it. He said that if I came to pick them up and drop one off at his house, then I could have the other one for the restaurant. Now I am not sure what he did with his, but as you can see from the pictures below, pre stripped, stripped and sanded, and stained and sealed, it came out pretty good and will make you feel holy while you wait to be seated at the Cheetah!

Zingers!

Here I am recovering all 80 seat cushions, GOL!

Do you see any?

The stools that you are about to see came from Delton MI. Our Buddy Wayne, made arrangements to let us into a storage unit that he had that was full of old, greasy,restaurant equipment that was falling apart and he was giving it away for next to nothing. In fact, I think that I told my brother, Todd, that I did not want the stools at first, but he made me put them in the van. All together we got 8 of them for $40 and they are SOLID oak. Now that I see what they look like when they are refinished, it was money well spent.

Thanks to my Brother and Our Buddy Wayne.

Cheetah Chairs Style A and B

So we went to Southfiled and got these tables and chairs and the chairs were all dirty and sicko. But thanks to a $20 roll of upholstery from Craigslist and a bottle of Krud Kutter, they are cleaning up real nice. There are two Styles: A and B. The A Styles will be used for the tables that seat two and four and the B style will be used for the larger tables. GREAT!

The New Face of Bear Manor

They got a new parking lot and fence. I am so proud.

FRESH!

If you want fresh produce, you have to go and get it yourself!

September 17, 2008 Tractor Pull 064
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More progress.

Things are going slow, but...

The restaurant is getting done. Things are moving along and we are starting to get down to details, which is fun. The walls are up and the electric, plumbing, water, and gas lines are in. I am excited to get in there and paint and decorate and get the kitchen in order.

Oh man, I want to make you a sandwich.

Electric Cheetah Building Progress Video Tour

Cheetah On Tour_0001
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The Green Door

Here it is as promised, pictures of the live rooftop.

It's Beginning to Look A Lot Like Christmas

This is very exciting. I am starting to feel what it will be like as my restaurant! I have been trying to get a picture of the live roof, but the ladder is always out of the way and I can not get up there, but I will get it soon.

Oh Boy! Oh Man! OH GOL!

Saturday's North American Choral Company Charity Event

I am going to go for it.

August 12, 2008 Excited is my mood.

August 11, 2008 Cement

August 10, 2008

August 8, 2008

July 20, 2008

Kendal College Catering

I won!

July 1, 2008

Flight of the Conchords - Robot Future

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June 26, 2008

June 24, 2008

What time did you enter da Cheetah?

Here is a tour of what I saw.

Monday June 23, 2008

Hi more wood.

June 18, 2008 It's Sportin' a Woodie

BOI OI OI OI OI OI OI OI OING!

It is the era of the cold soup.

GAZPACHO. I though a traditional well known start to the cold soup season, but look out cause it will get wierd. Let me break it down for you. All fresh. I put my twist on this classic soup by adding a plaintain chip and a hard boiled egg. I think that we may expirement with a vapor in a fancy dish, so you may want to go and check it out. At the Sparrows NOW!

Here we go again.

Loyal fans and newfound followers
Whassup y'all? Hello how are you doin out there?
You're chillin I'm wit it Oh! by the way the the steel is up get wit it
We went to the studio and then we made a video
We didn't make a movie though maybe the next year I said
Yo I got a message for my fans and friends
The steel frame is def y'all and here we go again!

Aaaaahh! Gay Paris. Sparrows. Today!

White French Onion Soup is inspired by the classic French Onion Soup. It is made with leeks, chives, and scallions, and a creamy base made up from chicken stock, cream cheese, ricotta, and Parmesan. Of course I had to put some lemon and fresh dill in it, and a few toasted baguettes and what would french onion be without some melted provolone cheese on top. To top it off, a little gremolata, which is made from chopped lemon zest, garlic, and parsley. Get Some!

Smoked Tomatoes For Eveyone.

Today at the Sparrows Cafe and Newstand, I will debut my smoked tomato soup. It has applewood smoked tomatoes, that were smoked by me, and grilled onions and pale ale in the base of the soup and that will be served hot. On top of the hot soup will be a cold spring onion, ricotta cheese, cream cheese, parmasan cheese, and garlic ravioli. It came out very good and all of the raviolies are hand made by me. Scratch cooking is GREAT!

The Famliy Von Cheetah

It just so happened that we all showed up for the Memorial Day BBQ at my mothers house and decided to take a picture. Ironically we were are dressed very similar to one another. I am the one with the Walrus Moustache.

The T-shirts are done man.

A picture of the screen that was used to print them.

I have some spare time.

Until we open, which could be some time from now, I would love to cater your cocktail parties, BBQ's, lunch meetings, or who knows what else. The possibilties are endless and I can go so far as grilling pizzas to order outdoors. I can cook anything, anywhere! I will even go so far as to cater Uranus.

Meanwhile at the Frushi Bar

Today I served up some Frushi at the Meanwhile, while the Bear Manor crew gave away plants.

May 19, 2008 Covered Footings

The Purple Panda

After realizing that the Billy Goat's Soup turns purple when you add the beat chip to the top of it, it reminded me of the Purple Panda that appeared on the both Mr. Rogers Neighborhood and the Polka Dot Door children's shows. So I think I am going to make a version of The Billy Goats Soup with purple potatoes, so it will be light purple to begin with and then strategically add the beat chips in the formation of the purple panda's face. I have told a few people this and no-one knows who the purple panda is, so here is a picture of The Purple Panda being interviewed my Mr. MacFeely. You will notice the beet chips the panda.

Wealthy Street Spring Flung

It is over and there was sidewalk soup in the form of The Big Ragout. There were not as many people there as I would have liked, but it was still a lovely day, but quite windy. So windy in fact that my new sign that i just built was blown over twice.

I did meet some people who did not know what that Electric Cheetah was, and gained some fans by pumping them full of soup. This is what it looked like.

Sysco Test Dinner

I went to the Sysco test kitchen and they gave me some samples of thier "all natural" line of beef and here is a picture of the dinner that we had where we sampled some top sirloin, tenderloin, and NY strip loin. I liked the sirloin best, followed by the strip and last was the tenderloin. THe whole table agreed. But it was a nice dinner and thank you Sysco for the snacks.

The New Sign Holder

I made this so wherever I go I can have my banner behind us. It is made from two 2x2's that I stained black, two patio umbrella bases, one 2x2 that spans across the back to keep it tight, and if you look close, I put two little fleur de lis' on top of the poles. It looks good and it will be very functional for indoor and outdoor catering anywhere I want to fly my colors.

Mission Statement I Guess?

Declaration of Fancy Soup.

Yes We Can!

Video clip from our seat at the Barack Obama rally yesterday.

The Wealthy St. Fancy Soup Movement

What is The Wealthy St. Fancy Soup Movement you might ask? Well I'll tell you friend. It is the appreciation of soup, the love of soup, and the passion for not just having another bowl of salty bagged, frozen, or condensed canned soup. Weather it be a hot bowl on a rainy day, or a cold bowl on a hot day, The Wealthy St. Fancy Soup Movement expresses one's desire for artisan soup creations that are made fresh from scratch everyday using as much local, organic and quality ingredients available on the market. I vow to use my creativity, gather the best ingredients, and bring you the most unique texture, temperature, and flavor combinations served with a spoon on the side. Join The Wealthy St. Fancy Soup Movement and "Eat Fancy".

Electric Cheetah T-Shirts Coming Soon.

Here is what they will look like.

The Cheetah Trailer

So earlier this year, I was driving to Holland, and when I left the tail gate was on the trailer. It was very windy that day and when I got to Holland and stopped, the tailgate as gone. I have no idea what happened to it, I just hope that it popped off and slid to the side of the road and did not go through the front windsheild of someone's minivan.

I built a new tailgate today and since i use it most for the restaurant, I made a stencil and did this so it rules more...

Billy Goat's Soup

Staring tomorrow at the Sparrows, you can have some of this lovely, creamy, velvetly, potato and goat cheese soup. It has some roasted garlic in it and onions and I top it off with a crispy beeeet beeeet chip. It's Teats!

Meanwhile Bar Asparagus Bonanza!

It is a hit. If you did not make it, you missed delicious free grilled Michigan asparagus.

The sauces were most popular in this order:

1. Black and Blue

2. Charred Chili

3. Truffle and White Balsamic

4. Garlic Lemon Chive

5. Honey Date.

But, they all got eaten sprayed all over the top of 44# of asparagus, oh and Jana had a nice time too.

Friday May 9, 2008

Eat Free Food at the Meanwhile Bar on Saturday

Come to this on May 10 at 5pm:


I will be there serving this:

May 8, 2008 Concrete Blaster

They are blasting concrete into the forms today.

An email from the Electric Cheetah's No.1 fan.

From Sue Osgood:

"Gotta get some Cheetah Money
As a giftee for muh honey.
Out of work and not much dollars,
"Need a clever gift!" I hollers.

"Versary to celebrate,
Got no great idea. But wait...
I been checkin' E C site
Thinkin' Cheetah Bills just right.

Gift of promise, gift of taste:
Gotta get those bills post haste.
Take the hubby out for dinner
At the Cheetah -- what a winner!

Dine on food that's most divine
When it's Cheetah op'nin' time.
In the meantime, proud to say
Helped to fund in some small way".

Thanks for your words Sue!

Earthy Delight

Underground soup now available at the Dog. It has carrots, celery root, turnips, parsnips, rutabega, red onion, garlic, russet potatoes, red potatoes, fingerling potatoes, sweet potatoes, spinach, toasted caraway, black pepper, and black truffle oil, all in a lovely mushroom and veal stock. Super flavorful.

The Menu

Sashimi Frushi

So I catered this party right, and there was all these snacks right, and I made this Frushi and stuff, and people were all, woah.

So you want a little taste but...

You are a poor college student, broke, dutch, lazy, full already, a DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince fan, or simply exercising your right to "just say no!?" Well I've got the medicine. Do you want to try a cup of soup at the Sparrows Cafe and Newstand? Just ask Uncle Cheetah and he will grant you a PASS. Send me an email to: theelectriccheetah [at] yahoo [dot] com with your mailing address and be sure to put, Re: soup pass, in the subject line and I will send you out your free Soup Pass even if you are West Michigan Dutch. Available while supplies last.

Day 14

Nothing happened. I would be posting pitures, but I have decided to wait until the property actually changes, because if I post pictures from the weekend, it will look the same, and if I post pictures when no noticeable changes occur, then it will just get boring.

Love,

Turkey Sandwich

Well you get some damn soup of course.

Hi there friends. Tomorrow at the Sparrows, I will unleash my Grilled Michigan Asparagus Soup. With Michigan Asparagus season just getting underway, I thought that it would be appropiate to highlight one of Michigan's unique vegetables. Grilled asparagus is one of my favorite things to eat in the spring and summer and I tried to create a soup that tastes like you are spooning fresh-off-the-grill asparagus into your mouth. I used all the componants of my asparagus grilling technique and turned it into a delicious, lite, sensitive, spring soup. ENJOY!

What to you get when you take...

GRILLED MICHIGAN ASPARAUS, CARMELIZED LEMONS,
AND GRILLED VIDALIA ONIONS & POBLANO PEPPERS?...

Day 11

Day 10

Day 9

Small Plates Example

This is what we had for dinner tonight and will be an example of a small plates item when that menu comes into effect about 2 months after opening. This is an antipasti platter that has grilled mushrooms, grilled asparagus, grilled sweet bell peppers, grilled spicy rattlesnake sausage, capicola ham, fresh mozzerella cheese, grilled red onions, grilled grape tomatoes, and a grilled corn relish, topped with chives, basil, sea salt, black pepper, and olive oil, and served with grilled sesame baguette, grilled multigrain baguette, fresh horseradish cream, and 5 pepper mustard on the side. My family enjoyed it.

Day 8

Day 7

Hillybilly soup at the DOG! 1035 Wealthy get it!

Fried Chicken, French Fries, and this guy.

We went to the Sysco food show thinking that the focus was going to be on organic and green products, and while there were a few there, and we did find some things that were interesting such as a bakery in Muskegon who uses all natural products in thier bread and the assurance that Sysco's premium meats are from all hormone free and at least grain fed animals, the only other thing that we found was a lot of fried chicken,and companies showcasing thier lines of fried foods. Oh yeah, there were soooooooooooo many people there including this guy...

Day 4

Day 3

Day 2

Day 1

I had this idea to take a picture of the property everyday and post it so you can see the progress as the building is biult. I am sure that I will forget a few days here and there, or not be able to take a picture on certain days, but I will try my best. I am lucky I took a picture yesterday, because wait until you see what Day 2 looks like.

Broken Grounds/Broken Hearts

Well it happend and it was quite a turn out. I would say that there were 50+ people that attended the ceremony, three news stations, Wood TV8 having done the best story and you can see it here: http://www.woodtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=8166656 for how long I dont know. Everyone was in great spirits and what a lovely day it turned out to be. Thanks Bear Manor, you are too great! Also there is a story here at the Chomber of Commerce: http://www.grandrapids.org/news/ribboncuttings/recentevents/

The Big Ragout Tomorrow at the Sparrows.

Look out! Here comes The Big Ragout! Tomorrow I will be delivering the first in my line of spring soups to The Sparrows Cafe and Newstand. This "Big Ragout" named after Carmine from the Laverne and Shirly Show, is a blend of roasted vegetables and herbs, blended and topped with organic yogurt and chopped chives. I found it to be very, very fancy indeed. It will also be serving free samples at the Meanwhile Bar from 4-6 tomorrow evening as part of our groud breaking reception. Get Some!

Ground Breaking Ceremony 1015 Wealthy.