Pan-fried deer sausage with Brewster oat groats, northern spy apples, hickory nuts, huckleberry: ($15)

I've wanted to offer an oatmeal dish on the menu ever since we brought in the 16th century-style Brewster oat groats from Anson Mills. We...

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Pairing: draft cider or black coffee

apple, farmer (local/regional), heirloom ingredient, house canning/preserving, housemade charcuterie, huckleberries, rancher (small scale/family), and venison

Posted 03/12/13 - Share this entry

Braised pork shoulder with rye spaetzle, housemade sauerkraut & mustard : ($16)

This dish began with the sauerkraut.  Chef Dave Ford loves sauerkraut, and making it in-house.  He incorporated pork shoulder, making ...

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Pairing: Richter 2008 Kabinett Riesling from the Mosel, Germany - this terrific single-vineyard bottling is pitch-perfect just now; keen, mouthwatering minerality, and lusciously ripe orchard fruits are couched within a very balanced sense of sweetness

apple, handmade, slaw, and sustainable

Posted 01/16/13 - Share this entry

Charcuterie plate with spicy pork rillettes, venison tartar, artisanal ham, duck liver pâté & salt baked apples: ($22)

Our charceuterie plate for two is all house-made, with the exception of the artisanal ham.  Johnny learned how to make the spicy pork rille...

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Pairing: 2009 Coenobium ‘Rusticum’ from Lazio, Italy - a gorgeous orange wine

apple, entrees for two, farm-raised, ham (Iberico, domestic specialty, Jambon de Bayonne, etc), handmade, heirloom recipe, housemade charcuterie, and sustainable

Posted 01/08/13 - Share this entry

Rutabaga & Apple Soup...root vegetable slaw, Nordic Creamery smoked cheddar, wild rice, toasted pine nuts: ($8)

I love Rutabaga.  I wanted to do a soup that used rutabaga's bitterness and incorporate sweetness. We decided honeycrisp apple would be...

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Pairing: Can Feixes, Blanc Seleccio Penedes, Spain - 2011

apple

Posted 12/05/12 - Share this entry

Warm Apple Turnover...northern spy apples, bourbon barrel ice cream, orange cranberry sauce, almond brittle: ($9)

This is a dessert idea to spin off an ole fashioned.  We took diced Northern spy apples and dressed them with sugar, cinnamon, and corn sta...

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Pairing: Leopold Brothers Apple Whiskey

apple

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