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A Turn Down Treat - Peanut Butter Cup Cookies

Each evening, MoDA’s Butlers visit guestrooms to refresh and ready for nightfall.

Refreshing spring water, along with a sweet treat, are placed bedside for guests.  

Many of the sweet treats are made in-house by MoDA’s Chefs and include such offerings as caramel popcorn, chocolate biscotti, chocolate nut clusters, chocolate dipped toffee, chocolate and nut bark, as well as a wide variety of freshly baked cookies.  

A guest recently emailed this request to The Butler Team: 

“Hi there…we checked out earlier today and can’t stop thinking about the peanut butter cookies…we want to make some now :)  Can you share the recipe? Thanks so much.”

We forwarded a recipe and thought we’d share with you as well…

Pillow Talk @ The Mansion

An evening of ‘dinner out’ and playful ‘pillow talk in’

Celebrate Valentine’s Day in a mansion, served by Butlers, with the city at your doorstep!

Add Pillow Talk @ The Mansion to your guestroom or suite reservation during the week of Valentine’s Day to complete your V-Day celebration. $99.+tax additional to Best Available Rate for any guestroom or suite reservation from February 8th through February 17th…check availability and rates now and call MoDA’s Butlers directly for assistance with reservations @ 716.886.3300

  - Pillow Talk @ The Mansion includes…

• $75. Gift Certificate to your choice of one of ten Downtown Buffalo restaurants including Sea Bar, Tempo and Rue Franklin …click on MoDA’s Pinterest to learn about partner restaurants… 

• Complimentary downtown Butler chauffeured Range Rover Transportation…you’ll be driven to and from dinner in MoDA style!

• Half-bottle of R H Coutier Champagne - a sexy french bubbly referred to as ‘the little krug’ - chilled and ready for your arrival!

• Lush’s famous ‘Sex Bomb’ Bath Bomb - they suggest you whip your clothes off for this ultra-sexy bath bomb of seduction - perfect for MoDA’s whirlpool tubs! Take a peek at Lush’s youtube ‘Sex Bomb Bath Ballistic’ video

• Two whimsical & delicious Cookie Cutters Valentine’s cookies to finish the evening with a sweet bite

A Holiday Recipe from The Mansion’s Special Events Team

Candied Spiced Nuts

Executive Chef, Jen Boye, includes these Candied Spiced Nuts on Parisian Dessert Tables at Holiday Special Events at The Mansion on Delaware Avenue.  Not only Chef de Cuisine, Jen is also an accomplished baker who enjoys creating sweet and savory baked goods and delights to add to entrees and desserts.  These elegant yet easy to make sweets could be a perfect homemade addition to your holiday dessert table or packaged as a luxurious homemade gift for family and friends.

Candied Spiced Nuts
Makes 2+ Cups

• Melt 1/3 Cup Butter in medium sauce pan 
• Add 2/3 Cup Sugar, a Pinch of Salt and 1 Tablespoon water
• Bring to boil, stirring regularly, and boil until slightly thickened
• Remove from heat and add the following spices:

2 teaspoon ground cinnamon

1/4 teaspoon allspice 

1/4 teaspoon ground clove

1/4 teaspoon dry ginger

1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg 

• Stir until combined and add 2 Cups Assorted Nuts - Almonds, Pecans and Walnuts
• Return to heat for a minute or two and stir until nuts are coated thoroughly and evenly
• Cool on a greased cookie sheet
•  Serve or Package attractively as hostess gift  in clear, cylindrical vessels….re-purposing hurricane candle holders or vases works well

Winter Getaway Gift Cards are back for Holiday Season 2012

‘Tis the season for this wildly popular, outrageously value-filled offer from The Mansion on Delaware Avenue.  An outlandish gift for clients, family or friends with a modest price tag for you.

Only 100 available, Winter Getaway Gift Cards are on sale beginning today and designed to be redeemed in the winter months, between January 1 and April 30, 2013. Guests will receive a gift certificate for an overnight stay in a  Classic Guestroom - a value of $200. - at the Winter Getaway rate of $125. illustrating a tremendous savings, complete with all of the services and amenities that guests have come to expect from The Mansion on Delaware Avenue…

Butlers & Warm Fireplaces  

   

Fancy Cocktails and Lavish Breakfast

                                                 Downtown Range Rover Transportation

The Winter Getaway Gift Card may also be redeemed as a $200. value toward a guestroom or suite upgrade through April, 2013. Reservations are necessary, a few restrictions apply…Email or call The Butlers today for details…716.886.3300…butlers@mansionondelaware.com

girlfriends get-away at The Mansion on Delaware Avenue

 

                                                    

For 7 years these friends have reunited annually at The Mansion on Delaware Avenue for a much needed girlfriends get-away!  Their lives are busy as doctors, professors, businesswomen, wives and mothers - but on this evening each year they are simply a group of girlfriends who are appreciative for and dedicated to the connections they’ve made with one another.                                  

They each arrive at different times, as their schedules allow, and they’re greeted by the Butlers who take their bags, valet their transportation, and remember and mix their favorite cocktail to take to their rooms as they unpack and refresh.                                                   

The evening always begins with a sparkling wine toast in the Billiards Salon, where these friends chat and catch up on each other’s lives.  But that’s where the tradition takes a turn…. from year to year this group has asked The Mansion’s Butlers to arrange for everything from dinner and a show to shop and restaurant hopping the Elmwood strip to en suite group manicures and pedicures to cocktails and dancing on Chippewa and then a little detour over to Club Marcella!

These girlfriends always look forward to the ease of MoDA’s complimentary downtown Range Rover transportation and to the silly laughter that usually accompanies these Butler chauffered rides.

                         

The Mansion’s Butlers make it easy to grab your girlfriends and shop to your  hearts content or dine in Buffalo’s best restaurants or dance your Manolos off…                     Buffalo is the city and The Mansion is the spot!

Presidential History - highbrow or lowbrow?

Just steps away, The Mansion on Delaware Avenue’s neighbors -The Buffalo Club, the city’s elite private club, and Founding Father’s Pub, where there’s ‘nothing snobby or somber’ - are brimming with architectural & historic significance….and presidential history.  

The Buffalo Club was established in 1867, in the midst of a boom-time for the city  as the hub of America’s east-west commerce at the western end of the Erie Canal. Founded by the city’s most influential citizens, it began as ‘a group for the purpose of fostering social intercourse’, and continues today as a private club with the same objective.

The Buffalo Club’s history is replete with presidential history.  13th U.S. President, Millard Fillmore, was not only a founding member but also the club’s first president. Former Buffalo Mayor and 22nd and 24th U.S. President, Grover Cleveland, held term as club president as well.  Perhaps the most significant historic period for The Buffalo Club was the time of the assassination of President William McKinley at the 1901 Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo.   After President McKinley’s assassination, the club was used as headquarters for his cabinet and Vice President Theodore Roosevelt.  Roosevelt’s inauguration would take place in Buffalo at the Wilcox Mansion, now a National Historic Site and museum.  Take a look at President’s who have visited Buffalo, many with a stop at The Buffalo Club.

Founding Father’s Pub is not only a quintessential ‘Buffalo locals’ bar where regulars and newcomers alike are warmly greeted and welcome, but also a presidential history buff’s dream. This presidential-themed pub is in a former 19th century livery dating back to 1874, with original hitching posts still nailed to the brick wall.  The decor of this cozy bar pays homage to American history in the form of historic artifacts including portraits of past presidents, newspaper clippings of events and even flags celebrating old election slogans - but it’s the pub’s owner and bartender, Mike Driscoll, who is the real draw.  While giving great service, Mike provides an ‘educational drinking experience’ by sharing his vast knowledge of American history with facts shared and debates begun between pub-goers and bartenders alike.  If you’re lucky, you’ll pop into the pub on a Founding Father’s Quiz Night, with general trivia ‘shout outs’ as well as team play.  Actually, there’s not much ‘lowbrow’ about this Buffalo tradition!

Art at The Mansion - Doug Sargent

“There is a need for public art in the most unexpected places” - Doug Sargent

There’s a new sculpture in town, and it’s titled ‘Watchman’.  The Mansion’s Pocket Park within a Parking Lot is graced with a sculpture created specifically for this space by urban artist, Doug Sargent.

Sargent is a metal sculpture artist working primarily with recycled materials: steel, copper, tin, ancient & antique iron, stone, marble, granite, and occasionally antique wood.  While some materials are modern, quite a few date back to the 1800’s and early 1900’s and Sargent feels they seem worthy of ‘a new life in another form’.  

A few years ago Sargent and fellow artists began to feel that there was a need for public art in the most unexpected places…and they began to do something about it! Sargent’s sculptures have since been installed in several gardens on the Garden Walk Buffalo,  M&T Bank, Quaker Bonnet, and now The Mansion on Delaware Avenue.  

-The artist, Doug Sargent, and his sculpture, ‘Watchman’.

Doug’s work is currently for sale at Thin Ice, Market Street Art Center, and Urban Roots.  

Win an evening at ‘The Perfect Buffalo Cocktail Party’

“When it comes to hosting the perfect Buffalo cocktail party, there is one place in the city that takes the cake for creating an outdoor ambiance unlike any other” - Buffalo Rising

“Commoners rejoice, the fanciness of The Mansion on Delaware Avenue, the most illustrious hotel in Buffalo, will be open to all for this summer’s Cocktails on the Lawn events…Not only that, but it will be open in style” - Buffalo Spree

Now you have a chance to win a VIP reserved table for 4 at ‘The Perfect Buffalo Cocktail Party’…The Mansion’s Cocktails on the Lawn!

August 22nd is the last date for Cocktails on the Lawn in The Mansion’s series of three for Summer 2012.  Cocktails, warm summer evening, garden patio, live music…sounds delightful! Usually reserved exclusively for private parties and guests of The Mansion on Delaware Avenue , MoDA is opening its’ private garden patio to everyone for a few delightful hours, on a few select summer evenings. 

What will you win?

• VIP Reserved Table for 4 on August 22nd…MoDA does not accept reservations for the ultra popular Cocktails on the Lawn, so reserved VIP seating is quite a coup

• Your choice of 4 complimentary cocktails from The Mansion’s Specialty Cocktail Menu created exclusively for August 22nd Cocktails on the Lawn

• Your choice of 2 complimentary appetizers from The Mansion’s ‘Snacks’ Menu created exclusively for August 22nd Cocktails on the Lawn

• Bragging, gloating, crowing and smack-talkin’ rights - You have a VIP Reserved Table at ‘the perfect Buffalo cocktail party’!

How do you enter?

• Go to MoDA’s facebook wall
• On MoDA’s wall, post the phrase “This is my last chance to be a VIP at Cocktails on the Lawn at The Mansion on Delaware Avenue”

How do you win?

• Ask, urge or beg your fb friends to visit MoDA’s wall to ‘like’ your post 
• All contestants who have at least 10 likes under their post on MoDA’s wall will be entered to win
• The winner will be chosen randomly from all entry posts with 10 likes on MoDA’s wall
• The winner will be announced on MoDA’s facebook wall on Tuesday, August 21st!

Art at The Mansion Terri Katz Kasimov

Selected pieces from Terri Katz Kasimov are displayed in The Mansion’s Fireside and Billiards Salons.  With studios in Buffalo, NY & Charleston, SC, Terri creates mixed media collages, paintings and drawings.  Her artwork is represented in numerous private, corporate and museum collections.

“Venezia III” from a series of five       Mixed Media Collage      

Framed dimensions: 29’ h x 37’ w   

Price on Request

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“Academia”        Mixed Media on Canvas     

Dimensions: 60’ h x 36’ w   

Price on Request

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“Monteriggion”        Mixed Media on Canvas     

Dimensions: 60’ h x 36’ w   

Price on Request

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“La Bois D’oingt 3”        Mixed Media Collage     

Dimensions: 12.5’ h x 15’ w   

Price on Request

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“Via Farini/Firenze”        Mixed Media Collage     

Dimensions: 16’ h x 12’ w   

Price on Request

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The Mansion on Delaware Avenue serves as an exclusive exhibition of original art from the talents of a wealth of regional artists – a virtual gallery with conscientiously selected art works throughout the hotel. Installations are thoughtfully chosen and updated frequently by The Mansion’s innovative, on-staff curator, Sandra Clarke - giving a fresh look and vibe to the hotel as pieces are switched in and out.

Art at The Mansion Edward G. Bisone

The Mansion on Delaware Avenue serves as an exclusive exhibition of original art from the talents of a wealth of regional artists – a virtual gallery with conscientiously selected art works throughout the hotel. Installations are thoughtfully chosen and updated frequently by The Mansion’s innovative, on-staff curator, Sandra Clarke - giving a fresh look and vibe to the hotel as pieces are switched in and out.

Gracing the walls of the Fireside, Billiards and Grand Salons are works by Buffalo native, Edward G. Bisone.  

Edward states: “The two words that probably describe my interest in creating visual images during the last decade are ‘process’ and ‘experimentation’…Prior to that my artwork was influenced by the Sturm und Drang movement of the Expressionists.  I am also interested in the naivete of children’s and outsider art.”

Edward’s pieces are displayed in galleries around the country and overseas; Buffalo, London, L.A. and California.  

“The Supplicants”         Mixed Medium on Paper       Framed dimensions: 26’ h x 32’ w

$1,000.00 Framed

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“Man with Hammer”    Mixed Medium on Paper   Framed dimensions: 33’h x 26’ w

$950.00 Framed

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“Four Trees”    Mixed Medium on Paper   Framed dimensions: 19’h x 22’ w

$700.00 Framed