Our family is starting a new chapter in our lives...
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After 20 years of serving the Quinte area through Urban Herb Restaurant, Urban Herb on the Curb, Urban Catering and Urban Bistro, we have decided to switch gears. We are selling our buildings and business and focusing on a simpler life for our family. Our Wellington location serves it's last scoop on Sunday September 2nd and Urban Bistro (26 Victoria Avenue, Belleville) will remain open until the buildings sell.
Please keep coming in until we close...we appreciate your support until the very end. |
OUR STORY
After a tough year with multiple family illnesses (Sharon's mom and Tim's dad had cancer and our oldest son needed 6 surgeries this year), and the recent death of Tim's father, as well as a flooded basement (not covered by insurance), we had our fair share of personally tough times this year. Unfortunately this was also accompanied with challenges of surprising Ontario government regulations and requirements that that forced us into a position we couldn't afford with our ice cream business. We struggled through the minimum wage hike (at the worst possible time of the year for most small businesses) and were disappointed by the lack of support for our crowdfunding campaign to keep Nice Ice Baby Ice Cream going (we raised less than 3% of our goal needed to build Urban Creamery). And the negativity of social media nearly did us in. 30 jobs will be lost and the more than $20,000 we donate in products and services each year to more than 80 local charities will also be gone. While we are devastated that The Urban Collective and Nice Ice Baby are closing, all this added up to a decision to simplify our lives and redirect our energy into more positive pursuits. Our oldest son Asher (who did everything in our business from making and scooping our handcrafted ice cream, cooking and serving the food for the catering company and bistro, is off to college for video game design in September. Our younger son Kayden is starting grade 10 and looking forward to being a camp counsellor next summer at Quin-mo-lac.
Once the buildings sell, Sharon is moving the salon and spa into our home at 54 Southview Avenue, Belleville. Please follow her updates on The Cat's Meow Salon and Spa Facebook page and her website catsmeowsalon.com for more information
We are so grateful to our amazing team who have stuck with us through good times and bad and our customers and supporters who have rooted for us when the going got tough. We ask for your continued support right up to the end when we close our doors for the last time.
After a tough year with multiple family illnesses (Sharon's mom and Tim's dad had cancer and our oldest son needed 6 surgeries this year), and the recent death of Tim's father, as well as a flooded basement (not covered by insurance), we had our fair share of personally tough times this year. Unfortunately this was also accompanied with challenges of surprising Ontario government regulations and requirements that that forced us into a position we couldn't afford with our ice cream business. We struggled through the minimum wage hike (at the worst possible time of the year for most small businesses) and were disappointed by the lack of support for our crowdfunding campaign to keep Nice Ice Baby Ice Cream going (we raised less than 3% of our goal needed to build Urban Creamery). And the negativity of social media nearly did us in. 30 jobs will be lost and the more than $20,000 we donate in products and services each year to more than 80 local charities will also be gone. While we are devastated that The Urban Collective and Nice Ice Baby are closing, all this added up to a decision to simplify our lives and redirect our energy into more positive pursuits. Our oldest son Asher (who did everything in our business from making and scooping our handcrafted ice cream, cooking and serving the food for the catering company and bistro, is off to college for video game design in September. Our younger son Kayden is starting grade 10 and looking forward to being a camp counsellor next summer at Quin-mo-lac.
Once the buildings sell, Sharon is moving the salon and spa into our home at 54 Southview Avenue, Belleville. Please follow her updates on The Cat's Meow Salon and Spa Facebook page and her website catsmeowsalon.com for more information
We are so grateful to our amazing team who have stuck with us through good times and bad and our customers and supporters who have rooted for us when the going got tough. We ask for your continued support right up to the end when we close our doors for the last time.
Our Wellington location serves it's last scoop on Sunday September 2nd
and Urban Bistro (26 Victoria Avenue, Belleville) will remain open until the buildings sell.
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BRAND NEW MENU FOR URBAN BISTRO! we are serving up this new menu starting June 15th, 2018! 
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After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations. ~ Oscar Wilde
meet the owners
a beautiful love affair with food
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TIM HENNIG
Chef Tim Hennig has over 20 years experience in the food industry. He and Sharon met while working together at the iconic Toronto restaurant Peter Pan on Queen West. He studied cooking at George Brown Culinary School and apprenticed under world-renowned chef Arpi Magyar at Splendido. He began his restaurateur life in Belleville with the accredited Urban Herb Resto-Bistro back in '97. After a couple great kids altered the trajectory slightly, things have come full circle with the Bistro again, plus a few extra projects along the way!
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SHARON HUCKLE
Sharon Huckle has been Tim's partner in business and life for more than 20 years. An accomplished hairstylist and salon owner in her own right, she lends her creative flair, boundless energy and enthusiasm to every aspect of their businesses. She also devotes a good portion of her time to community projects and encouraging others to get involved. She is a active environmentalist, proud business woman, talented artist, devoted wife, loving daughter, sister, friend and...awesome mom to sons Asher and Kayden (who are also part of the team)!
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where to find us |
Nice Ice Baby Ice Cream
305 Main Street Wellington, ON, K0K 3L0 613-902-7389 |
Urban Bistro
(formerly Nice Ice Baby Cafe) 26 Victoria Avenue Belleville, ON, K8N 1Z4 613-968-1481 |