Joel Inman

General Manager

Blu…Blue Man Group…Songs with blue in them…Blue Ocean…Blue sky…nah…just Blu.

If you haven’t been around the club recently you might not have seen the progress to our addition: Blu. Blu is our newest offering for dining at the club. So what exactly is it? We are imagining Blu will be the more intimate, upscale, Philly style restaurant right here in your club.

Blu will offer a limited number of seats on Friday and Saturday nights in what was once our Terrace room. In addition to that, it will also offer a “Chef’s table” located directly in our kitchen. You will get a front row seat, watching our outstanding culinary team in action, creating masterpieces from our menu.

Our plan is to have a quieter more polished dining experience with a menu that changes weekly. Not only will it change weekly, but it will also be focused on “farm to table” options that are available to us. It will have a new décor including tables, chairs, lights and fireplace. With some luck and hard work we anticipate Blu making it’s grand opening shortly after Mother’s Day in May.

I would also like to address some concerns I’ve been hearing from members and staff alike. As I’m sure you are all aware, the hospitality industry workforce left in droves during the pandemic. Since then, every establishment has had their share of issues getting enough staff to fulfill their needs. We are no exception to this. Even today we are continually on the lookout for talent. We have been lucky enough to fill in some of the vacancies with hard working, excited, young adults. For many of them, this is their first job and they come in with a lot of enthusiasm and ambition. Our management team tries to provide all of them with the training and resources needed to be successful. However, making a cohesive, driven, well trained team takes time. During this process, inevitably, things sometimes don’t go as planned. It doesn’t mean our team doesn’t care or doesn’t want to provide you with a great experience. Each and every one of us comes in trying to make things a little better each and every day. During this time when our management team is training and retraining our staff, I ask 2 things of you. The first is to be patient and be kind to those that are here doing their best to provide you with an outstanding experience. The second thing I ask is that you reach out to me anytime you feel that things didn’t go as you had hoped and planned for. The more I understand what is not happening properly, the more resources I can bring to bear to improve it. I promise I will not see you as if you are a “complainer” as I’ve heard it termed, but more importantly I will see you as an asset in helping me make Laurel Creek the best.

I thank you for your continued support of this great club!