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This week at Good Eats – 6/10

dormaj — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 16:52:34 +0000

Hi,

We’ll start with some changes. As you have been reading the past couple of weeks, we have added Monday nights to our schedule. And as you know, we are testing your interest in having sandwiches and other lighter fare available at Good Eats with a concept tweak we are calling “Casual Cafe”. I have linked a copy (Microsoft Word format) of last Mondays menu to give you an idea of what we are doing. When you look at it you will see that our Crabcake sandwich comes on toasted beer bread. If you remember a couple weeks ago I was asking for feedback on your favorite bread with a crab sand. Of the replies (thank you all very much) the one that really caught my chefs eye came from Mike Barrett of Fredericksburg who suggested the beer bread. Honestly I had never heard of this before, but with a couple of exchanges Mike had me pointed in the right direction, and a few baking tests later, do we ever have a pleasant surprise for you. A genuinely excellent crab sand, not the usual bread sandwich one finds smothering a crabcake. Thanks again Mike.

Next change – our policy on reservations is now “Groups of 6 or larger.” Used to be 8, now its 6. Hope this helps.

We have moved into the early summer part of our season. Lots of good things are coming from the earth now and we celebrate them with this weeks soup

Northern Neck Minestrone

Our specials will be

Fennel-crusted Salmon in Thai Red Curry Sauce
&
Soft-shell Crabs with Lime Butter Sauce

Thank you so much and,

We hope to see you.

This week at Good Eats – 5/20

dormaj — Thu, 20 May 2010 14:46:17 +0000

Hi,

I was looking at the calendar the other day and the old chef brain registered, “Oh, it’s almost the end of asparagus season.” It wouldn’t be right to let this pass without a further hurrah or two, so for all those of you who keep bringing this up to me, this weeks soup will be a revival of the

Cream of Roast Asparagus with Crabmeat

While we’re on the asparagus theme, we will also be offering this week

Risotto with Grilled Lamb Chops
(with asparagus, portabellas and mint)

We will also feature

Grilled Tuna with Lemon Vinaigrette

Soft Shell Crabs with Lime Butter Sauce

Tonight is Prime Rib Night, Friday come for half-price bottles of wine, and Sunday night we offer Henny Penny.

Locally, this is the final week you can catch ‘Inherit the Wind’ at The Players Theater in Callao. For tickets call the box office at 529-9345 or on the web at www.westmorelandplayers.org.

Lastly, here’s a reason for you to look at the calendar also. Beginning on June 7th, Good Eats Cafe is going to start opening on Monday nights. On those Monday nights we are also going to be tweaking our concept a bit, something we are calling Casual Cafe. Casual Cafe will add sandwiches and other lighter fare along with our full dinner menu. More to come on this as we get closer.

As always, thank you all so much.

We hope to see you.

This week at Good Eats – 5/13

dormaj — Thu, 13 May 2010 17:06:46 +0000

Hi,

Short and sweet today, (but also very tasty)

The soup will be one of the all-time favorites:

Cream of Caramelized Vidalia Onion

and for specials, we will again feature

Soft Shell Crabs with Lime Butter Sauce

& also,

Grilled Tuna with Lemon Vinaigrette and Mediterranean Tapenade

We hope to see you.

This week at Good Eats – 4/29

dormaj — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 14:10:43 +0000

Hi,

And off we go, first week of the 2010 season. Already fortune has shone on us; would you believe that we are able to feature

Soft Shell Crabs with Lime Butter Sauce

in the first week of their new season. Serendipity. The other special is another spring favorite,

Salmon Oscar

which is roast salmon topped with asparagus and crab meat with a light mustard-parmesan glaze. We took requests last week for our opening week’s soup, and the winner was

Cream of Roast Asparagus with Crabmeat.

We open tonight as usual with Thursday is Prime Rib Night.

We have added 4 beers in addition to those we carried last year, Miller Lite, from Delaware, the Dogfish Head 60 minute IPA, a beer from Oregon, Full Sail Amber, and also, from Colorado, Left Hand Milk Stout.

Our wine list has been the happy recipient of the world-wide wine glut brought to us by the financial crisis of the past couple of years. There are deals to be had on fine wine and we have taken full advantage. Our wine list is posted here. We have also worked to make these wines accessible. You will see that almost everything is available by the glass. The service staff has had many fun “training sessions” in the past week, where we have opened all the wines and then, one by one, brought out menu items so that we could learn what pairs well with what. We are ready to guide as you discover your own favorite wines to drink with your meals. Those bottles whose subtle nuances do not lend themselves to being served by the glass are easy to try out on Fridays, when all bottles of wine will be half-price, all season.

Sunday nights we will feature Henny Penny, and this Sunday night only, we will make available Fried Oysters for those of you whose cravings could not be satisfied earlier.

We are feeling blessed that we were able to re-open and

We hope to see you.

This week at Good Eats – 10/22

dormaj — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 17:31:02 +0000

Greetings,

Here we are at 5 weeks remaining for the 2009 season.

Thanks for all your nice remarks about the new beef we are getting in. You can try it for yourself with tonight’s Prime Rib Special. We had to have a rather somber discussion with our dogs (and Buster), informing them that their weekly prime rib beef scraps are coming to an end soon with our season closing.

Specials for this week are:

Sausage, Potato and Kale Soup

Flounder with Sauteed Spinach, Chesapeake Oysters & Country Ham with Lime Butter Sauce

Roast Salmon Filet with Mustard Glaze, Fried Capers & Fresh Dill

Wine Specials for this week are a delicious Entrada Sauvignon Blanc and Malbec from Mendoza Argentina. Fridays continue with our special of ½ off any bottle of wine.

Sundays are Fried Oyster Night, and they are SO good, nice and plump!

It’s been great getting some warmer weather back this week after last weeks early blast of cold.

Hope to see you,

Sally & Steve