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A December Menu

December sees a full swing towards game and red meat on the menu, for the simple reason that customers stop ordering seafood from Thanksgiving through Lent. Our local weather plays a big impact on the menu. If the snow holds off and the ground doesn’t freeze too hard, we see local cabbages, leeks, and greens for most of the month. December sees the blood orange and South American asparagus crops coming in full cycle; white asparagus starts to appear on our menus. I tend to start making pâtés and terrines again in December. Naturally we use lots of local apples, sweet potatoes, fingerling potatoes, winter squash and so forth.

Saturday, December 29, 2007

First Courses

Mini Thai-Inspired Crab Cakes $9

Thai-Spiced Lump Crab Cakes with Sweet and Spicy Dipping Sauce

Steamed Prince Edward Island Mussels $8

Steamed in White Wine, Garlic, and Herbs

Arugula Salad $7

Baby Arugula; Tomatoes; Pine Nuts; Feta Cheese; Blood Orange Vinaigrette

Wild Mushrooms Baked under Appalachian Cheese $10

Wild Chanterelle and Hedgehog Mushrooms Sautéed with Shallots and Thyme, Baked under Local Cheese

Grilled Surry Sausages $7

Famous Smoked Pork Sausages from Surry, VA; Cranberry-Corn Pancake; House-Made Apple Sauce

Piquillo Peppers Stuffed with Picadillo Dulce of Lamb $7

One of our Most Popular Tapas: Roasted Sweet Red Peppers Stuffed with Sweet & Sour Lamb (contains almonds)

Terrine Maison $7

A Pure Pork Pâté Flavored with Pancetta, Pecans, Pistachios & Port; Cornichons; Whole Grained Mustard

Seared Foie Gras* $15

Grilled Blood Orange; Blackberry-Muscatel Vinegar Gastrique

Second Courses

Jumbo Lump Crab Cakes $25 (Try VA’s own Linden Seyval Blanc)

Local Baby Arugula; Grape Tomatoes

Rockfish in Spicy Sauce $23 (Try the Feffiñanes Albariño)

Wild Rock in a Sauce of Shrimp, Bacon, Leeks & Green Chiles

Truffled Guinea Hen $27 (Try VA’s own Rockbridge Pinot Noir)

Think Shepherd’s Pie with Guinea Hen (similar to pheasant, but more flavor) and Truffles; Breadcrumb Crust

Grilled Kurobuta Pork Loin* $22 (Try VA’s own Fabbioli Chambourcin)

Heirloom Berkshire Pork (raised for flavor) Glazed with Hoisin; Sweet Potato Hash; Rapini

Grilled Elk Chop* $32 (Try VA’s own White Hall Petit Verdot)

Elk is the Tastiest of Venison; Black-Eyed Pea Cake; Asparagus; Truffled Demiglace

Grilled Virginia Lamb Loin Chops* $25 (Try VA’s own Fabbioli Cabernet Franc)

Local Lamb; Ancho Chile, Pancetta & Blood Orange Israeli Couscous; Sautéed Spinach

Grilled Grass-Fed Veal Chop* $34 (Try VA’s own White Hall Merlot)

No-Hormone, No-Antibiotic, Free Range Veal (red not pink); Asparagus; Wild Mushroom Cream

Grilled Filet Mignon* $36 (Try VA’s own Linden Claret)

Baby Carrots; Roasted Haricots Verts

Breast of Moulard Duck with Blackberry Syrup* $26 (Try the Jip Jip Rocks Shiraz)

Sauté of Winter Vegetables

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