Hi,

Well this week-end looks to be our reward for enduring all this rain lately; I’ll bet you’ve already looked at the week-end weather but if you haven’t it’s gorgeous fall sun for the next 5-6 days in a row.

Also, for those of you who live in the Northern Neck or otherwise within an hour of Richmond, this is filed under community service. I saw “Wicked” at the Landmark Theater last night and I’m here to tell you, if you can swing it, GO! This old New Yorker has done Broadway many times and this cast and production are of that quality. Stunning, good theater.

Back to work. Tonight is Date Night. Come for an arugula salad with apples and pancetta or a spiced tomato and red lentil soup. Entrees include Chicken & shrimp Scampi, grilled pork, fried catfish and that good Creole Gumbo.

For the rest of the week we will feature

Spiced Tomato and Red Lentil Soup with Feta and Grilled Shrimp

Grilled Pork with Black Beans and Chili Con Queso.

Thanks always for your strong support and

We hope to see you.

Well, whew, up and open, he says, standing just a little taller and beginning to smile. Thanks to all of you who helped make our opening week such a success. We’re back, aren’t we.

This weeks soup is one of my favorites to eat. As a long-time believer that “what is harvested now is the nourishment our bodies need now”, this

Spring Tonic Soup

is hard to beat. Starting with a vegetable stock and ending with a pesto made from arugula and Osaka Purple mustard, this is health in a bowl.

I also believe you can’t beat the two specials we opened with last week, so we’re not even going to try. Once again we feature

Salmon Oscar

which is roast salmon topped with asparagus and crab meat with a light mustard-Parmesan glaze, as well as

Soft Shell Crabs with Lime Butter Sauce.

Tonight, Thursday, is Prime Rib Night, Friday we offer half-price bottles of wine, psst, try the Pinot Noir, and Sunday, as I hope all of you know, is Mother’s Day, when once again we take the point of view, “Don’t take your Mother out for lunch THEN make her cook dinner for you. We will open on Sunday at 5 as usual.

On the local front, Saturday begins a three week run of the Westmoreland Players new show, ‘Inherit the Wind‘. For tickets call the box office at 529-9345 or on the web at www.westmorelandplayers.org.

Looks like a beautiful week-end coming our way,

We hope to see you.

These past few beautiful days combined with the cooler weather certainly lends itself to some inspirational fall cooking. Steve has been able to locate some wonderful local kale greens in addition to the lovely squashes, beans and Swiss chard that we’ve recently added to the vegetable mix.

So in keeping with the season’s bounty, we are offering for this week:
Kale Green Soup with ‘Pot Liquor’ Broth

And a special appetizer of
Steamed Mussels with White Wine & Garlic

Dinner Specials will include:
Roast Pork Loin with Chile Con Queso Sauce and Black Bea

Grilled Tuna with Buffalo Sauce & Sweet Corn,
And
Flounder Topped with Buttered Back fin Crabmeat

As expected, the current Friday Night ½ Price Bottle of Wine is very popular. Our wine reps are VERY happy with our recent orders! It’s a good opportunity to try some of our different wines, as we will run this special throughout the fall

Tonight, Thursday is Prime Rib Night, and Sunday evening features Fried Chesapeake Oysters.

Not to be premature, but several of our customers have already been asking us when the end of our season will be, so file away Saturday, November 21st as The Last Supper.

We, of course, hope to see you many times before then,

Steve and Sally

Hello,

Happy Father’s Day!

Before we get into new specials, I’d like to mention that after 13 years of enjoying Steve’s weekly soup creations, I thought that his soup last week,

Northern Neck Minestrone was extraordinary! I would be the first to admit, had I not known the chefs’ cooking abilities, I would probably not have ordered it, based on its name alone. The depth of flavors that Steve was able to extract from these locally sourced vegetables (green beans, English peas, sugar snap peas, butter beans, spring onions, asparagus, fresh dill and chives) was exquisite and so rich!! So… I encouraged (begged?) him to run it again for this weekend so that more of our customers have the opportunity to enjoy its uniqueness. Skip your V8, and have a bowl of this intoxicating tonic instead! How about, if you don’t enjoy it, you don’t have to pay for it?

Additional specials are: Grilled Tuna with Wasabi Butter & Pickled Ginger and of course, while we are still lucky enough to get them in, Soft Shell Crabs with Lime Butter Sauce.

Wine features for this week will be Urban UCO, Malbec/Tempranillo Blend from Argentina and Ponga Sauvignon Blanc from Marlborough, New Zealand.

Tonight is Prime Rib Night, and Sunday is Henny Penny Night.

Thank you, we hope to see you this weekend,

Sally & Steve

Greetings,

Before we go into our specials for the week, we need to let our customers know that for this coming Sunday, June 14^th, Good Eats will be opening our doors at 5:30 pm, instead of our usual 5:00pm. We will be going to see our daughter Schuyler’s matinee performance in The Westmoreland Players ‘I Remember Mama’. By the way, we understand that there are still some tickets available for this Saturdays matinee and evening performances (804-529-9345). Next Sunday, we will revert back to our normal 5:00 pm opening.

The end of the spring season is converging with the beginning of the summer season; our soup this week will feature a delightful combination of vegetables & herbs, all of which is sourced locally, Northern Neck Minestrone. This soup will have green beans, English peas, sugar snap peas, butter beans, spring onions, asparagus, and fresh dill and chives.

We will offer Grilled Tuna with Sesame Dressing & Watercress. The watercress is from our own fresh fed stream on our property.

Soft Shell Crabs with Lime Butter will be available this weekend.

Tonight is Thursday Prime Rib Night, and Sunday is Henny Penny.

We hope that we see some of you this weekend, and that not everyone on the Northern Neck will be attending graduation ceremonies and parties!

Thanks,

Sally & Steve